The baby hasn’t given me much opportunity to knit this past week.  I was doing my knitting whilst breastfeeding her but, just lately, she’s realised there’s something very exciting going on behind her head and started flailing her free arm around behind her to try to grab it.  That messes up my knitting either because she gets hold of it and I drop stitches or else my tension just suddenly goes all over the place …and it darned well HURTS when she pulls away like that.  So, I haven’t been doing much knitting lately.

But I have been craving it.  Even when I’m too busy to pick up my needles, when I’m cooking mini-lunches and folding laundry, I find myself knitting in my mind, allowing my subconscious to relax into that nice rhythm of needles and stitches.  That’s when I know I really need it.

I treated myself to some nice wooden 12mm Brittany needles from Yarnsmith for the maroon cardigan, and that alone inspired me to go back to it with as much gusto as time will allow.  It’s lovely to knit on wooden needles — makes all the difference in the world.  The cardigan has grown surprisingly quickly, despite how little I’ve been knit, and it’s quite exciting to see it take shape.  It deserves more time than I’ve been able to give it, but I am determined to put that right as soon as possible!