Does it count as finished if you haven't done the seams? -

I have finished knitting my first baby surprise jacket. It was rather fun and I like folding and unfolding it into shape. I hesitate to sew it up because my seams are so often ugly.














I also finished knitting the rib warmer. I had to so that I could use the needles to start a Clapotis. I have spent a great deal of time sitting in cars lately, so there has been a great deal of knitting (and not much laundry... the pile is starting to fill me with fear). I did actually seam the rib warmer and it looked AWFUL. It was too big in the body and didn't fit over my boobs and made me look cut off and awkward.

I have unseamed it and ripped out half. I am making myself a pair of big-arse winter socks instead.

And I have begun and finished a Clapotis. The yarn was delicious to knit with and I was filled with a kind of unholy joy every time I ripped out another ladder. Deliberately dropping stitches? What fun. I had only three balls and knit it by wait and ended up with a metre of wool at the end. The last two pattern repeats were nervous ones.

I think this was the first time in ten years that I have been faithful to one project.














I just haven't been able to get a decent photo of the finished product. Another problem is that it looks great on my mum...

It still looks like a muddle -

All done but the seaming.














Any bets on how long that will take? (Actually, don't answer that.)














Hopefully, now, my year 7s will stop teasing me about wearing so much green. They were right, it was getting excessive.

Chocolate man -

I went home for the folk festival this weekend and knit the better part of a rib warmer. It is filled up with good music and happy thorts.



















I shall dedicate it to Guy Davis, about whom many of the happy thorts were had. There is a man who appreciates pudding!