“And now that you don’t have to be perfect…”

“…you can be good.”

Having knitted a scarf for my Mother for her birthday I felt I had to do the same for my Father. His birthday is only 2 days after my Mum’s after all.

I used a pattern from a fantastic knitting blog Knitigating Circumstances (found here) by Kelly Sloan. It’s called Business Class Cowl (Ravelry link to the pattern can be found here) and has an interesting waffley stitch.

The original design used fingering weight wool, but I just used wool I had already so DK had to do. It’s really nice actually, Rowan Summerlite Cotton (colour Ocean), and hangs well.

My Dad does a lot of cycling and horse-riding so I thought a cowl would be more practical than a scarf. Don’t want the ends flailing and catching in something! Mental image of my Dad’s bike going one way and my Dad the other…

I’m starting to plan out my Christmas knitting as well. Might seem a tad pre-emptive, but I want to knit a toy and a piece of clothing for each of my niblings and it can get really dull! My friend Charlotte’s been asking me for a while to knit something for her Goddaughter so I think I can knit two of whatever I choose for my nice, save on wool purchasing. Don’t judge me, wool’s not cheap!

Anyway, I want to intersperse present knitting with selfish knitting, and I want to start early enough that I can take my time and not rush anything. Famous last words – flash forward to me panic-knitting at midnight late in December!

I want to knit another jumper for myself and I’d like a skirt. I also need to knit a scarf for CB (should probably do that next actually). Plus every time I peruse Ravelry I end up with a load more favourites… Who knew that knitting would be so addictive?



*quote from John Steinbeck.