Financial Times visits Macon and Athens

How weird is that? Macon and Athens (GEORGIA!) are the travel spots in this Saturday's Financial Times. Bizarre.

Plus the mention Chad's Band Hank Vegas. The world is officially getting too small.

Saturday night fun

This week I managed to catch a miserable cold. So I've collapsed today and just lounged around at home. Knitting and catching up on some reading. Started feeling better -- day 3 you always feel better -- around 20:00. Just as the Ocado man was supposed to be delivering my groceries. In a whirlwind of activity I cleaned up the kitchen and mopped up the crap that accumulates when you are not feeling well. I knew I had reached a moment of craziness when I found myself cleaning the kitchen garbage bin/can lid. So, do you ever get stir crazy and find yourself cleaning things?

Yipes.

Unravel or rip!

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Originally uploaded by sillewellyn.

Oh, no, I finally admitted that I had messed up this sleeve for a UFO (unfinished object) that has been languishing in my basket for over a year. so on a sunny day in the summer I just ripped it out. Painful to see but I documented it. Here it is partially ripped

Rip and wind

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Originally uploaded by sillewellyn.

here its is all ripped out and partially balled/wound up. Note the lovely day outside and the dappled sunlight. sigh

All neatly re-wound

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Originally uploaded by sillewellyn.

Here is the sleeve all ripped and wound up neatly. Funny thing about knitting all the labour just disapears -- a bit like life I guess

Shira's unfinished gloves

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Originally uploaded by sillewellyn.

One of the benefits of being home is you get to knit all the time. Two days in bed mean that I finished one fingerless glove and started the second. Really like this pattern, but it is the yarn which is so yummy. I bought it at Christmas last year in Florida but its a Welsh Collinette yummy yarn. I've lost the ball band but I think its called Jitterbug. It travelled from Wales to Florida and back to the UK. This summer it went on vacation with me to Egypt; last month it went to Tahoe and Chicago; and now its back in the UK.



The pattern is called Porphyria by Cissy Black. I got it off the web when I was home for Christmas. However; when I went to put a link to the pattern to give some props to the designer I find Porphiria is a disease as well as a glove pattern.

Knits up nice and springy, I think its meant to be a sock yarn. I'm sure Lawyer Shira will find a use for them when they make there way back to Chicago! Thanks for the hospitality, Shira and Jeremy!