Gosh it feels good to be making things again! I can't remember exactly when I started these socks, but it was several months ago, probably before the summer. I got about a third of the way down the first one and then life got in the way. I picked them up again over Christmas, when Peter was ill and the weather was grey and cold, and I spent many hours watching Call the Midwife and happily knitting round and round and round. Eventually I finished, and I'm extremely pleased about it. They don't match, of course, and if you look closely you can see I did several more rows on one heel than the other, but who cares about that? I enjoyed knitting so much that when I'd finished the socks, I was looking round for something to do with the leftover yarn. I settled on a hot water bottle cover - my old one was only ever intended to be a temporary one, and as I've been using it for over a year, it's rather tatty. I started knitting, but it didn't go well. Going round in big circles wasn't very interesting, and the pattern didn't look quite so good when spread thinner. I abandoned my knitting, and settled on something more straightforward - a rectangle of bright blue fleece and a bit of ribbon. Ten minutes with the (rather dusty) sewing machine this evening and I have a cheery new cover. Hooray! The socks won't count towards my 20 for 2020 list, given I did the last couple of rows on new year's day. But the hot water bottle cover definitely counts as a 'household item' - one down, fifteen to go.
I think I'll make it though - my new overlocker arrives tomorrow...
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