New Season, New Start

I haven’t written a blog post for over two months. There have been lots of things happening and not good things. It’s been a range of personal and family problems, including Boots my cat being ill. It turns out he has a thyroid problem and now I’m giving him medication for it.

I’ve been trying not to let it all get to me and I’ve been carrying on with my creative endeavours. I’ve learned over the past two months to be calm under stressful situations and to let it be rather than fighting against the tide. Things are what they are and sometimes you can’t do much to change them. You can change how you react to them though. Some wise words from a friend: will it bother me tomorrow? If not, it’s not worth getting stressed about today. I’m learning to deal with things better, in a much more philosophical way. 

My artistic pursuits might be too much for one post, I don’t want to bore you, so I’ll start with this:

I’ve been doing a lot of knitting recently, having bought lovely 4ply yarn from Crafty Cat Knitty Bits which is hand-dyed. Here is the yarn:

Beautiful colours, aren’t they? It’s BFL and lovely to work with.

I decided to knit a hat for the chiller times in Autumn and for the cold days in Winter. 

I was worried about whether I’d be able to do it because I’ve only knitted with double-pointed needles once before, but the pattern I found on Ravelry was really easy, just rib stitch and then stocking stitch. It’s called the Sockhead Hat by Kelly McClure. 

It took a while because I’m not the fastest knitter, but here’s the finished thing:

(Yes, that’s me modelling.)

I’m quite happy with how it turned out.

I’ve got another knitting project on the go at the moment, as well as lots of other things, which I’ll be posting next week, hopefully.

I hope you’re having a good week.