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Holst Garn Supersoft

I am playing with Holst Garn Supersoft, a Danish yarn that comes in beautiful heather hues and fingering weight.

My midlife crisis hit me like a ton of bricks and I handled it poorly. In retrospect isolation was probably not the best strategy, but that’s what I did so shoot me. And don’t go looking for me on Flickr, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. because I committed virtual suicide and deleted all those accounts and reduced Facebook interactions to nihl even though I couldn’t bring myself to delete it. I’ll do everybody a favor and gloss over the past two years. Fast forward to November 2010 when Ben mentioned that he was shopping for fingerless gloves and couldn’t find anything that fit. I can knit you a pair, I said. It had been over

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two years since I had knit anything, and a lot longer since I’d made a pair of gloves, but after seeing what he bought online I figured I could do a better job. So I rummaged through my stash, found some tweedy cashmere from Colourmart, took measurements and cast on. And I kept taking measurements of Ben’s hand and fingers as I went along, just to be on the safe side. What’s the point of custom knitting if it’s not perfect? The result was a pair of fingerless gloves that fit perfectly. Until I washed them. In my enthusiasm I forgot that cashmere doesn’t act like wool so now Ben has oversized gloves. I’ll do better next time. At least the little finger starts lower than the other fingers, unlike the pair he got on Amazon.com. The other unforeseen consequence of this quick project is that I got the knitting bug again, big time. I had stopped knitting because of repetitive stress injuries when things got so bad that I couldn’t knit for more than five minutes at a time. Not being able to knit was depressing and along the way I stopped checking my friends’ knitting blogs, Ravelry, and anything knitting altogether. But those gloves brought me back and this time I’ll watch out for signs of injury to my arm and do my best to prevent problems because I don’t want to quit again. Knitting is relaxing and beautiful and energizing and even the cats are excited that we have yarn around the house once more. More posts about knitting in the next couple of days. Right now I am trying out WordPress and hope it doesn’t mess up with the old posts, which were created in Movable Type and then archived as a static site when I stopped blogging. Back to swatching.

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