Eastburn Adventures

I'm a copycat. There, I said it. I am so easily influenced by my friends' knitting projects, that I must knit them myself, and I forget that I've got so much great yarn in the stash that I've got plans for and then they lay sadly forgotten in their baskets, drawers, and bags.

I purposefully bought the MDK book for the Moss Grid Hand Towel pattern. That was the one pattern from the book that I really wanted to make, and I bought some Euroflax linen in fuschia (yuck - what was I thinking?) to make it with. Then Zarah decided to make hers in a lovely sage green, which was a much better color, so I bought the green, swapped the fuschia, and we were going to have a KAL. (The problem with Zarah in a KAL is that she's a focused speed-knitter - which is usually a good thing - and she finishes her projects long before anyone else!) I am easily distracted by other projects, as was the case with the MGHT. But finally, 2 months after starting it (and probably 6 months after buying the yarn for it), it's finished!

It's funny, because I was knitting the MGHT at work during lunch, and my friend Stephine asked about the pattern. The next thing I knew, she had started it in a yummy Blue Sky Cotton in chocolate brown. And since I taught her to knit, she's on her second pair of Fetching, and ready to learn socks! I don't think that she's copying me - I think it's inspiration. So maybe I'm not really a copycat after all. Isn't that one of the reasons we love Ravelry so much? Anyway, both Kate and Zarah are making the Central Park Hoodie (or in Zarah's case, the Jordan Valley Park Hoodie), and I'm rebelling. I'm going to make A Cardigan for Arwen. (Someday - when I'm not distracted.)