So, about an hour ago I hit ‘the wall’. The week has caught up with me and I can barely keep my eyes open, and I feel exhausted. After I have done this post, I will retire to my bed with a cup of tea and a blanket and try to get some rest. And yet my head can do that magical thing with ‘work’ that small children can do with food. Just as a child can complain of being not hungry but is ravenous for desert, my head might want to sleep and stop thinking about the day job, but somehow it also wants me to sit and write up the pattern to the retro granny square ripple blanket. My crochet habit is clearly deepening, and I need a fix of something yarny before I head for bed.
I could, of course, spend some time fondling my latest yarn pets. This week has been a bit of a treat on the postal front – my YarnMama purchases have arrived over a number of days, interspersed with yarn boxes that I ordered a while back but which arrived in the same week. So its been a bit like Christmas around here, with my daughter helping me to open the parcels and making appropriate ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ noises, and stealing any additional chocolate treats that might have been popped into the packages. At 4 years old she already has all the yarn lingo down pat, best illustrated by: “Mummy, I can’t find XXX, can we look in your stash for it?”
The picture above is of my YarnMama haul from the amazing FleabubsByLala. One of the constant sources of sadness to me is that I cannot use her beautiful hooks; the way I crochet means that I tend to drop hooks which have weighted handles. But her yarn is very special and I can indulge in that. These skeins are almost too pretty to cake, and even my daughter gave a “Wow, THEY are beautiful!” when she opened the packet. So these were able to comfort me as I put some of my stash up for sale last night to help to pay for the garage bill I earned the other day. And the spaces created in my stash were filled by this new loveliness, that will be turned into something very special. But I don’t think I will have the energy to cake them tonight. I might have to squidge them one more time before I go upstairs though…
The Knackered Psycho 