keeping warm

I seem to be forever freezing at the moment. And always on the go with this, that and the other.

So it's kind of indulgent to completely ignore all domestic faffing of an evening and lounge in front of the tellybox with some yarny type of doing. 

At the moment I've been on the hook, as it were, with the almost finishing of this granny square blanket started back in the dark ages and also a bit of bow making, for what exactly I'm not too sure. This started as a brooch but then seemed to grow a bit and then quite fancied itself as a maybe hat. But we shall see. 

I've been watching, Call the Midwife, Mr Selfridge, Ripper Street and Dancing on the Edge.

It's coincidental perfection that most of these are on a sunday, as that is indeed the best evening to curl up, keep warm by the fire and fuss about with some type of knittery and a compelling period drama!

knittery bits I will one day finish # 1

pinky pinkiest pair of pink leg warmers that ever there was....

Last year, during a brief infatuation with ballet I started to knit the little lady a pinky pink pair of leg warmers. They didn’t take too long to knit and gave a warm contented sort of bliss in the making of.

Shortly after the harmonious clackety clack of the needles had started to dwindle so too did miss Ellas ardour for the love of dance and quite unexpectedly one day the mere mention of pointing ones toes in the good/naughty way invoked a tantrum of epic proportion and a steadfast refusal to comply.

Reluctantly, I hastily put away all things ballet including the so very nearly almost finished pair of pinky pink leg warmers.

The other day, during a tidy-sort of my new workroom {star jump  star jump!} I found the forgotten leg warmers hidden at the bottom of the bulging “knittery bits I will one day finish” bag. And so, quite unprecedented, and even shocking my self let alone those around me....I finished them! Yes, done and dusted. Tick. Voila. Hooray!

Do you have knittery bits you need to finish? I’m looking forward to a stitchy gathering with friends this weekend and I’m hoping to sup tea, eat cake and stitch together an enormous pile of grannies from long ago!