I’ll get there some day…..

All things books, All things craft,

A gentle reminder from an ‘acquaintance’ (just someone I see at a group) that I’d promised – one I have no recollection of – to knit some clothes for her granddaughter’s doll had me scrabbling through the garage looking for a long forgotten Tiny Tears. One of those things left behind years ago but ‘please don’t give it away Mum’ so it lingers out there along with various other bits that really should have been given away….guess when Mum’s gone those 60yr old children will finally make that decision they should have made years ago.

The 16” dolly clothes will have to wait a bit (Christmas is a while away yet) – Mum has been making decisions of her own since she returned home and discovered an awful lot more yarn in the garage than she remembered – several of those interesting 400gm ‘sealed so you have no idea what the ply is’ mill end bags suddenly appeared (tucked away in a box below another box – no idea when they were bought) so it’s use it or lose it. ‘Mill ends’ are the surplus yardage of yarn produced by mills every time a production run ends. source

Meaning I’ve some planning to do…….decide what to make and if I’m capable of offloading/donating/giving some of it away.

This little sweater/cardigan is so easy to knit it’s become a favourite of mine ( see the very well used, bit tattered and torn pattern…..priced @ 6d! One I bought for my first born – 1962😯)

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And it turns out this particular ‘mystery yarn’ knits up like a dream. Soft and comfortable to work with, smooth on the needles and using 10/3.25mm with 8/4mm needles is sizing to the pattern measurements.
I’m sure it could be used in the same way as an 8ply……Watch this space 😊

My latest library book turned up a couple of days after we got home…..I definitely timed the putting on hold process just right
It’s a new to me author so I must have seen it recommended somewhere
The sea, the sea by Iris Murdoch

As they say…in for a penny, In for a pound. If I don’t get on with it, it can go back😊

Remember Violeta – I mentioned her back at the end of August and again in September.
After a few false starts I finally made it to the end of over 300 pages.
Different – Interesting – Readable – no plot as such, more a letter to her grandson.
it did seem to go on and on at times so I had to stop for a breather now and again
Having said that I enjoyed it but sometime or another I’ll try another, with a ‘storyline’, to get a better feel of the author

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…..  Unraveled Wednesday  hosted by Kat…….As Kat Knits……
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Others are sharing their knitting (and reading) – pop over if you’re interested.
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16 thoughts on “I’ll get there some day…..”

  1. Isabel Allende is a varied author. Some of hers I have enjoyed and others have skimmed and discarded.
    Ditto Iris Murdoch, though I don’t know either of the books you have selected.
    Happy reading – and knitting.

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    1. It’s always an experience to read new authors EC – I’m always interested in how others have reacted to their writings and whether I feel the same way.

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  2. Isabel Allende is one of the favorite authors for Literature at University…I can’t remember which I studied though.

    Interesting find craft materials that suddenly work out just fine.

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    1. I laughed/grimaced when I ‘discovered’ them Catherine- then thought…..try it out if it doesn’t knit well then donate it to someone who is able to use it for another purpose. So far so good with this first crop

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    1. I’m enjoying the early part – it’s going to take a while to read though. Smallish print plus over 500 pages. Somehow I think I’ll be renewing it for another month to get through it.
      Good to see you are accepting the challenge of a new blog.

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  4. I admire your talent for knitting…your end results are always so beautiful. I’ve never been a knitter. I’ve only ever made a couple of jumpers, and they certainly were nothing to jump up and down about! 🙂

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    1. Thank you Lee – my dressmaking skills are another thing. There are none! Like you I made a couple of garments, least said about them the better 😊

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    1. There are times when I take the easy way out and choose something I know I’ll not make a mess of. I think I’ll be using tried and true patterns for this wool.

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  6. Iris Murdoch was a British philosopher who also wrote novels with a philosophical edge to them. She died a few years ago and was subject of the movie Iris. She had Alzheimers at the end. She was cult reading in the 1970s and 80s. Her books seem dated to me now. We read some again in my philosophy class a few years back.

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    1. Thank you for that information Rachel, sadly I’d never heard of her. I’ve only just begun to read the book and so far I’m enjoying it. Lots of words and a little humour…..maybe that will change, I’ll find out as I go along.

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  7. Oooh i can just imagine finding a whole new stash of kniiting yarn (effectively for free) and starting thinking up new things to knit it into. Somehow that is mu h more interesting than picking a pattern and going out to buy the yzrn for it. xxx F

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    1. lol that’s always the way I work these days Tigger (and Ms F). To make it easy on myself (and maybe a little conventional) because of the colour I’ll choose baby/toddler jumpers/cardigans. Something I’m used to so don’t have to grapple with ‘workings out’

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  8. the little blue sweater is precious and I continue to be jealous of people who can knit, sew, crochet, paint, all of those that i can’t do. I read every day of my life, but only books I love, I send it back if I don’t love it.

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