I thought it was the pens

Out with the old…. I’ve had a touch of post-Christmas ennui and, as you do, I started to blame it on the pens. I wasn’t using them as much as usual so perhaps I wasn’t loving the pens I had inked, or the inks themselves. I’d been using the same few pens for almost two…

Cast off, cast on

I’m happy to say I’ve had a positive start to 2023 on the knitting front. I cast on a pair of socks with one of my Christmas yarns just before New Year and finished them this week. This was the perfect little palate-cleanser project after the long haul of my pink cardigan and the completion…

Make it easy on yourself

Or, goal-setting for the timid. I have been wittering away for weeks about goal-setting. I’ve mentioned it out loud a few times, but there’s been a much deeper internal monologue and I can’t count the number of times it has appeared on my list of actions for the day. I thought that I was shying…

What I did over Christmas

I've put in some proper knitting time over the Christmas break and finished that pair of socks which I promised I'd get done before the end of the year. I'm pleased. The two yarns I've used co-ordinate well and, though there's an obvious demarkation between leg and foot, it doesn't look massively out of place.…

Planning my knitting

2022 has been a lacklustre year on the knitting front. Something has been lacking and I'm not sure if it is enthusiasm or inspiration. It certainly isn't time because I've wasted oodles of that over the year. One thing is clear, though: if I want 2023 to be different I'm going to have to come…

Intentions

I've been considering a change or two in my planning system in preparation for next year, and one of these has been to rethink how I'm going to use the week to a page diary inserts. My original intention was to interleave a blank lined page between each, thus carrying on with the system that's…