It doesn’t happen to me often, but I’m having one of those life is out of control days. On the workfront, on the homefront, on the knitting front. Too many things happening at once. Can you imagine defective yarn from Elann, noticed halfway through the project, and finding out about some bad lab results I had six months ago, apparently lost and now found, something else to worry about? Having a tendency toward positive thinking, I’m going to stop right there. Instead I’ll show you my blocking project, another one of my Herringbone Rib patterns, done in Malabrigo Velvet Grapes, with three pattern repeats instead of four. If you want it, the pattern is yours, free for the asking, just leave a comment. It’s been a fun way to meet other knitters. I understand some will be going to the Red Scarf project.
Here are my thoughts on Malabrigo vs Manos del Uruguay – Malabrigo wins on the softness factor, Manos on the fabulous colours. Malabrigo feels soft as cottonballs, Manos feels more woolly. Malabrigo is more consistent in thickness, Manos has more thick and thin texture and knits up with more loft.The verdict on my Manos Malabrigo review? I prefer Manos, but they each have a place in my stash. I could use a Manos fix right about now.
Hey, I just realized it’s Chuck’s and my 24th anniversary today. Now there’s something to make me smile. For those of you who think it strange that it’s something that just occurred to me out of the blue – being so close to Christmas and with so many other celebrations in life – our anniversary is something we choose to celebrate only on the big ones. Once my SIL called and talked to us for 45 minutes before wishing us a happy anniversary. There was silence on both extensions of our phone line as neither one of us had remembered. We still laugh about that. Like everyone else, we haven’t always had it easy, but it’s worked and we’re happy.
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