....motivational Fail. The weather is fabulous this week, hot and sunny; they threaten that it will break tomorrow, with thunderous downpours that may cause flooding.
I have motivational fail when the weather is great, as it's too good to waste being indoors doing housework, plus the kids are playing outside with water and are in and out every 3 seconds tracking dust and other assorted muck across the floors. Plus I like to snooze in the sun.
I have motivational fail when it's cold and raining because ... well, because on a day like that ? why even bother to get out of bed. And of course, if you don't get out of bed then you can't see the housework that needs to be done. This is what's known as a win/I need Kim & Aggie situation.
Uber-cool Brother's reception of his scarf has confirmed his Knitworthy status, although the color was not quite right; so he selected, and Belo paid for, this:
100g/400m of Squash 4ply sock yarn by The Skein Queen, in the colorway 'Aunt Betty's Pond'; which I found at The Yarn Cafe, who had it at my door in 2 days, along with some Haribo sweeties and a sachet of cappuccino mix - a lovely touch, and quirkily appropriate for a 'Cafe'. All I need to do now is find a suitable stitch pattern: not full-on lace, but maybe a few holes would be OK; I like the idea of some kind of scroll pattern - I liked the Flame Chevron, but I don't feel the need to repeat its use so soon. Suggestions, please ....
And my main WIPs are progressing; we luffs the blue one (although it looks odd here as I took the photo under thunderclouds this evening): chunky wool on 6 1/2mm needles, it knits up fast ....
And we quite likes the lilac one, having got to grips with the user-unfriendly way that the pattern's written; please don't notice the goof where Transformers 2 was getting too exciting ...
And this WIP ... all I can say about him is that it's bluddy lucky he's so good-looking.
I can almost guarantee that you'll see motivational Wins over at Tami's Amis, celebrating one year of WIP Wednesdays already !
