Born to knit

Sock-shock in Stockholm

Warning: the contents of this blog post might be found offensive.
Parental guidance is adviced.

You´d think that someone who is rarely seen without a knitting ought to have a substantial collection of handmade socks.
Well, dear readers, prepare yourselves for a shock!

So Johanne, what have you got to say in your defense?

– Oh, I, eh, hate... I mean, I don´t like knitting socks... You see, I have this thing about double pointed needles... I´m uncomfortable using them.

Not much of an excuse though, is it Johanne? You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
In fact you don´t even deserve to call yourself a knitter. All real knitter love knitting socks.

– But look – I made a whole lace top in only two weeks.

Pattern from Svalan on Åland and Finnish merino-silk yarn Silla.

Nice try, but we are not changinge the subject.
Johanne, you are a disgrace to your country and your fellow knitters.
Go and knit yourself a pair of new socks – or don´t show yourself on this blog ever again.

And Marina, you wouldn´t dream of calling Johanne pernickety after seeing this, would you?

Much Ado About Nothing

Did you know that you can spend an awful lot of time getting hardly anything done?
Johanne is one of those unfortunate people who has vast experience in this particular field.

One of her New Year´s resolutions was to learn how to do kitchener stitch (aka grafting)
to finish her wristlets. An excellent tutorial can be found here.

But she had no idea that the learning process would be so hard or she would probably have stuck
by her old recurring resolution to lose weight.
Not that losing weight is much easier than doing kitchener stitch.
But it´s one she´s already accustomed to failing at.

The first few hundred attempts looked like someone had done the grafting after an extremely
high intake of alcohol. So Johanne plodded on, unpicking the stitches time and time again.

She had set to work early one Sunday morning and sometime in the afternoon she felt dizzy
and realised that – hey, she hadn´t eaten since breakfast!
Well, this is certainly a new way to lose weight, she thought moodily since the sugar level
in her blood was pretty low by this point.

And with a full stomach she finally achieved something that was almost presentable.

Wanted: a fast and meticulous grafter

But apart from this last bit of trouble these wristlets have been a joy to knit.
It´s Koigu with Japanese beads. Say no more...