Over the last few days I’ve put some projects on hold because I am going to the UK in a couple of weeks time. I have realised that there are some things that I need to get done and take with me. To that end I did two hats on Sunday!
Yesterday I was working on a cowl that I promised to make when I was last in the UK. I had ignored it on the grounds that until I was going there, there really wasn’t any point in making it. Since January there have been changes to receiving parcels from the UK and additional taxes are charged on the doorstep. We are no longer accept anything from the UK and at the same time I don’t post anything encase there are problems. Given that the 2nd week in July is my younger son’s graduation, I will be going over. Hence the need to crack on with a few things.
It was this morning when I realised that I didn’t have enough yarn to finish the cowl. I looked on line to see whether I could get some more but soon discovered that that wasn’t a possibility. I popped in to one of the yarn stores in Morlaix to see what they had. Eventually I decided that the only answer was to use a solid colour in a similar yarn type in a complimentary colour. I had thought that I would do a band of the new colour at the top. I then realised that that would simply look as though I’d run out of yarn. So the only answer was to remove several rows in order that I can make the middle third the new colour. I think it will look fine. I am happy with how it’s looking so far. So it was worth going backwards on the job! It will be finished tomorrow, I’ll put up a photo then.
My husband had the following même come up on his Facebook feed today. It made me laugh and seemed to fit with today’s theme. In some respects I am hoping that Bobby will be stepping out of that shower any moment. There are a few things I think I, and hopefully the rest of the world, would do differently next time around! As the saying goes, hindsight is 20:20 vision. Though according to my optician son, there’s no such thing! That’s for another day.
Until tomorrow…
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