Oh bother, I've been spending way too much time on Ravelry and I just want to knit! But naturally, the project I have on the needles isn't good enough for me, oh no, I want to go out and knit something brand new. Visa, I have a feeling you may be getting a work out soon. Starting school now and all, I'm feeling broke, so I think it'll have to be a small project like a hat, either Rose Red or Baroness Beret which I'd really like to make in Noro Cash Iroha in aqua. I think it would look just nice with my black winter coat. Rose Red I would want in that exact scarlet yarn. Or these Anastasia socks, which I am completely in love with.

I've been reading, napping and eating all day. Last night I finished Brideshead Revisited and today am starting Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Now at first glance, it may appear that I am simply doing the rounds of novels recently made into films, but in reality my theme is simply English novels.

Presently I'm scouring the internet, having decided that I need a silk dressing gown, and am searching out either a vintage one or a vintage pattern that looks just like this :

Sock in progress, or, Returning to Making Things

My granny's birthday is coming up in July. Last year I knitted socks for my mother and aunts, and she was very interested in them. She knits, but has never knit socks. I thought she'd like her own pair, and her favourite colour is purple. So here they are in progress:



The pattern is Hedera from Knitty. Hopefully the lace will become clear once they are being worn (does one block socks?) but this is as it looks right now, stretched out over my fingers:



I haven't knit or sewn or done much of anything in the past few months. Often I would be sitting around feeling that my hands really ought to be doing somthing. It's amazing how much better I have felt since starting these socks. I bought the yarn Monday afternoon and started them as soon as I got home. The next day I was already thinking of more projects I ought to start, feeling creative and lively again. I hadn't felt like that in quite some time.

You know I just love Brenda Ueland. And she always says that creativity is like a tap. The more you turn it, the stronger it comes. And it's so true. Just start something and it keeps flowing!