Two Left Bodies
Posted by mrspao on 02 Apr 2007 at 01:39 am | Tagged as: gardening, knitting
I started the right hand side of the of my Noro cardigan on Friday night as we were returning home from Bluewater in the car and knit away quite merrily through Saturday and Sunday between trips out and gardening. It was only when I was distracted slightly during Dr Who that I realised that I had knit two left sides! So I unpicked the whole of the “right-hand side” to only realise I only ought to have unpicked as far as the ribbing – doh! At that point, I gave up on knitting because I was just too tired to concentrate properly. Before you ask, it is meant to be assymetrical as I have been told so many times that horizontal stripes make you look fatter so I figured if I broke them up it would work better.
Nevertheless, I love the Kochoran. It is quick to knit with so I’ll hopefully make up for my daft faux pas quickly.
Well, it has been a bumper weekend. Saturday morning saw us up with the blackbirds and off to the garden centre with Grandma, then a spring fair to hunt for books, Wildwood (more on that soon), then to see our friend David in an excellent production of Kiss Me, Kate. Yesterday, pao had a horrible tummy ache when he woke up so we skipped church until that passed but then went on a bumper shopping trip for lots of garden things – we bought masses of plants and some bird feeders then spent quite a bit of time planting and afixing in the afternoon.
It will be interesting to see what happens to these sweetpeas – I need to affix some netting to the wall for them to scramble up – I don’t know what colour they will be yet. Sweetpeas remind my of my mother-in-law because she brought me my first ever bunch when she came to see us the first time.
We now have a few hanging baskets and a bird box by the garage so it doesn’t look so bare out there any more. I had lots of plants so I cobbled together an old wire frame and some liner to make an extra one. I don’t think it looks too bad. The ground isn’t particularly good but I’ve dug in some multipurpose compost where I planted new stuff so that should give it a bit of a boost – there were some worms in the bits I turned over so it couldn’t be too bad a spot.
I thought some spring pots would brighten up our front door area.
Ariel says she would have helped but she is busy sunbathing.
Is there nothing that Noro can’t make better? The sweetpeas will be so pretty!
Pretty flowers, Samantha.
Those darn Dahliks can be very distracting!
I made a sweater out of Kochoran several years ago…it was a tight fitting ribbed sweater, and too warm to wear by the time I was done. So it’s been sitting on a shelf waiting to get frogged and knit into something else. Ariel looks like she’s having a hard time adjusting to the new place.
Whew! I feel tired – no wonder you didn’t start that front again!! Come on, Ariel, get busy!
Surely you have two left sides of your body?
Mebbe not
Isn’t gardening fun? Isn’t it even better when your labour bears fruit (or vegies, or flowers)
Doh!
Beautiful flowers though.
I’m glad you enjoyed Kiss Me, Kate (though you left out the all-important comma!).
Hanging baskets are definitely a good thing, too.
Ooh look, a comma!
oooh….Noro!!
Ahh, cats and their art of sunbathing. Ariel’s cute.