Another WIP

I would like to ponder for just a moment on the quest for the perfect knitting project. Due to nearly 45 years of knitting history, I think I kind of know when to throw the towel in on a project and sadly it looks as if the Knit Camp Vest may be going the same way as several other "works in progress" or put another way "abandoned knitting disasters". The perfect knitting project has to be somewhere between a challenge and a nightmare. The vest is nudging towards the nightmare end of the scale. Not, I hasten to add because of the fairisle but because it is knitted in the round and therefore requires circular needles (usually a joy) that constantly needs shoving by my poor finger currently battered and bruised. Most non knitters will not understand this concept but believe me, my finger can't take any more. Plus I've gone wrong and can't be arsed to frog it back and correct the error. What's more ( adopt an indignant voice here) I snapped a brand new Knit Pro wooden needle before I'd even completed one round. The knitting gods are yelling at me to gently put this down before I stab someone with the left over Knit Pro needle.

The perfect knitting project for me is a blanket, manageable, colorful and at the same time challenging. Plus no possibility that it won't fit. Utterly perfect.

So, (adopt calmer voice here) I have been seduced into knitting a garter stitch baby blanket for a friend who is still only 5 months pregnant. See photo above. It is knitted in Sirdar Sublime which I bought from Purl a delightful independent knitting shop behind Brighton's main station. My daughter and I spent a glorious couple of days in Sussex conquering the shops and eateries in Lewes and Brighton and one stop was Purl. The yarn is soft and squidgy and a pleasure to knit with, on straight needles, Signatures by the way. I was never going to wear the Knit Camp Vest anyway (adopt truculent teenagers voice here). So it will end up with a few other unwanted and unloved projects until I can legitimately dispose of it. Please don't ask me how or where. That's a secret!!

Jane