Yesterday we spent some time with a friend of Myria’s. I have often brought my knitting along on visits and she has often commented on it, mentioning that she used to knit, but hadn’t for many years now. Well, yesterday, she couldn’t wait for me to sit down so she could show me what she’d been up to.
She had dug out her needles and bought a pattern and some yarn and was making a cardigan! The yarn is a lovely spring variegate of dusty blue and green with some pale yellow and light salmon. The Melissa Leapman pattern was a simple cardigan done in a basket-weave stitch. She had finished the back and was a little better than halfway up one of the front pieces. Her tension was good and the edges were as neat as a pin - my edges always look like someone stuck a size fifteen needle into each stitch :)
She had done this, she said, because I inspired her to pick up her knitting again. Well, I don’t really think of myself as an inspiration - Elizabeth Zimmerman, I’m not! - but it was nice to hear and, seeing what lovely work she can do, wonderful to see. I can’t wait to see what her finished sweater looks like on her!
Between that and various other errands that needed to be run, I didn’t knit a stitch yesterday. By the time we got home I was so tired, I was afraid to pick the needles up lest, in my funk, I start doing entrelac on the chenille and garter stitch on the stole.
So we had pizza (the place on the corner down the street makes superb pizza and also fantastic spinach pie and baklava!) and watched:
It is snowing.
Again.
So, I guess, it’s nice we got everything seen to yesterday. That means that today we can stay in and, with luck, I’ll get some knitting done. At least that’s my plan at the moment :)
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snow again- geez, you are definitely having an extended winter there- it is really spring here now, and we should enjoy it because it usually lasts about a week before we go full tilt into summer temps-
probably best not to knit when weary- it just leads to annoying messes and general dissatisfaction with one’s work- i could elaborate with sad examples-
ah, baklava- sounds yummy- it is good that lent is going to end soon, as my desire for sweet treats is about to do me in!!
stay happy-
I totally want pizza now. How sweet that you inspired your friend!! That’s great, I hope she gets so much enjoyment out of it that she never wants to drop it again!
Barb - Ah well, as sloppy and yucky as it was this morning, things cleared up and the sun even deigned to come out before it went down this evening.
That’s right - Lent will be over come Sunday. Are you stocking up on the good stuff in preparation (evil grin)?
Laura - Come up to Lowell, MA and get a Meat Lover’s pizza at “Pizza by Conrad”. Trust me, it’s worth the trip :)
