BLACK COTTON CARDI

I've had to find a new pattern and yarn as the charcoal wool cardigan just wasn't working out. When I took what I'd knitted so far off the needles it seemed to be extremely long and stretchy. I could wrap it around my waist twice!!! and as I'm shaped like a large wombat I new something was wrong. So from the stash KATIA 10 ply bulky cotton-black, pattern DROPS 108-40 the test swatch matches exactly the yarn gauge and this time there will NOT be any changes to the pattern. I'm knitting one size larger as the cotton doesn't have a lot of give and I'm more of a cover up sort person. So far it's going smoothly but I've only knitted three rows.

FLOWER FROGS

I love flower frogs, this one is just like the one I've bought on eBay. There's something about green depression glass that makes me want to collect as much as I can find. It reminds me of Summer, grass clippings and aprons covered with flowers. On the knitting front my cardigan developed a problem (two holes) on the right front band. I was watching television not my knitting! then had to frog back almost to the beginning the holes turned out to be loose tension on the moss stitch part. I've decided it's time to find another cat, it's been two years since Ziggy (a very large, curry loving ginger and white moggy) had to be put down at the ripe old age of 21 3/4 human years. So in two weeks we'll visit the cat home and rescue a grown up cat as they seem to be the last to be picked. Ziggy was a rescued cat not from the cat home but from a friend who was leaving Tas, if I hadn't taken him his next stop was the cat home.