Aiming for Sleeves.

Those of you who have read my blog before may remember that I tend to be a monogamous knitter but I have come to the conclusion that while monogamy may well be desirable in our human relationships, there is room for more than one knitting project in my life at a time. I think I like to have one slightly complicated knit and one very straightforward one on the go at the same time so that when it gets to knitting o'clock I can still indulge even if I am really tired.

This is my current straightforward knitting project which I hope one day will be a beautiful cardigan with actual sleeves.

I haven't managed anything for myself with sleeves yet as I keep running out of yarn. The yarn I am using this time is my own hand spun with one ply brown Haunui and one ply coloured merino/silk. I started off with 600g of the brown Haunui spun for and left over from a jumper that I made for my husband, so I got 600g of the coloured merino/silk from Wingham Wool Works and plied them together. I really hope that this will be enough, I am only just coming to the top of the back of the cardigan and I have started worrying about it already!

Reading this week, well as usual I am listening rather than reading, has been Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights read by Patricia Routledge. I first read this book when I had to study it at 17. 17 was most definitely the right moment for me to read it, all those stormy emotions raging through both the book and myself were quite a potent mix. Now, revisiting it in my late forties, I find that though I am on a slightly more even keel emotionally, there is room in my life for Heathcliff!

Joining in with Jinny for the Yarn Along.