Dropped the kids off for their first day back at school today and went for a coffee in my favourite coffee shop - raspberry and white chocolate muffins worth exercising for - and started the rib for my second ever pair of hand-knitted socks. As i was sitting there in the glorious sunshine I realised how incredibly happy i was to be at a whold new beginning. The new school year, the new socks and, more importantly, the new start I made with my promise to myself to Get Things Done!Yeah, I know, I've made the same promise before but this time I've actually stuck to it so far AND enjoyed the amazing sense of achievement (even from the little differences so far). OK - so I'm not always getting the days list of jobs done, but it's been because I'm doing other stuff instead. Real stuff that needs doing not just the wasting time and procrastinating stuff that I usually manage to do when I'm avoiding life.
Ooo - forget to tell you all - I finished my first ever pair of hand-knitted socks at the weekend. They have been finished all but the grafting on the second sock for about 6 months until now. They were knitted from the Snowflake Lace Sock pattern on the MagKnits website and knitted up in Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock "Bittersweet".
They were probably a bit complicated for a first pair of socks, but I'd much rather make something that takes a bit of brain power than something that makes me bored. There's a few mistakes in them but I can't find them now they're finished so I don't think anyone is going to point them out when i wear my gorgeous new socks :)
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