Looking at my stash and thinking about those various wonderful colours that I’m using to make the blankets
Stash remaining
As an approximation, there are 9 balls of wool at 100 grams, and 26 balls of wool at 50 grams. The 100 gram balls are approximately 420 metres each, and the 50 gram balls are 210 metres each. This makes a total of 9240 metres. One mile = 609.34 metres. So if you stretched out the yarns in my stash they would measure approximately 13 1/3 miles. That’s a lot of knitting. Imagine stretching out the yarn to have it showing a path from my house to the centre of Dublin and back again – that would be about the distance. I would start knitting at my front door and walk along knitting, knitting, knitting until I got to Grafton Street, then I would turn around and knit my way back home.
While I’ve been knitting the blankets shown above, I read this book, The End of Sleep by Rowan Somerville. A new author for me – and a very good one. The author is Irish and the book is mostly about Arab culture and Cairo Egypt. I also enjoyed a couple of other novels about Arab culture. These books by an Egyptian author, Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building and Chicago, both recent best sellers.
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