Mindless Knitting February 5, 2008

 Squares for another hodge podge

My current knitting is rather mindless.  I am avoiding working on the green cardigan – which I think is going to become a green sleeveless vest.  I just don’t feel like fiddling any more with  trying to figure out how to attach my existing sleeves to the reknit fronts and back of the cardigan.  And I don’t want to reknit the sleeves – they are perfectly good as they are – just need to be attached smoothly to something.  A dilemma which I am putting to one side.   At this point I rather regret trying to salvage the green cardigan.

  lime green cardigan with ill-fitting sleeves – the finished product had a neck problem as well

So I am turning to knitting squares or rectangles, using yarn from my stash.  These will eventually be joined to make another hodge podge.

Recent award

   Recently I was surprised and delighted to be nominated by Leigh for this award.   Leigh has been a faithful reader of this blog and has given me much encouragement with her comments.  Now this award.  Thank you Leigh!

One hitch about the award though is that it entails naming 10 blogs that I would like to honour in turn.  A hard task.  Hard to choose among the many wonderful blogs that are out there circulating in cyberspace.  This raises the question of what blogs do I read and why.  My choices and interests might not be the same as yours. 

When I started reading blogs, they were all about knitting.  So, when I finally succumbed to creating my own blog,  it, of course, was initially about knitting.  Gradually the net has widened and I have found myself directed to many blogs which are not only about knitting and other textile activities but also have other points of interest about them.  I find myself reading blogs for a whole variety of reasons – blogs by people of similar age, circumstances, and background akin to mine, blogs by people I know, blogs by family members, blogs by people leading a life I might want to lead given a 2nd chance – fantasy!, blogs for their textile content, blogs from different parts of the world, the list could go on.  Here are my sample 10 choices – my nominations, in alphabetical order,  for the You Make My Day Award:

          

            China – Smog Blog

            Dances with Wool

            Emperorp

            Freyalyn’s Thread

           Getting Stitched on the Farm

           Irish Sally Garden

           Jean’s Knitting

          The LeContes

           Road Blog Ahead

           Woolly Bits

Making these choices was hard.  Ask me again tomorrow and I could give you another 10!