Tea and Cakes

Some of you might know that this is Mojo. (He’s not mine, despite attempts to steal him, and I can in no way be blamed for the pirate outfit he’s sporting in the picture)

He’s not missing.  Just to be clear.

The mojo that is missing is my knitting mojo. Last week I just wasn’t feeling it. I managed to knit about 10 inches of i-cord. And mess up the decreases at the top of a baby hat. A plain, simple, easy-as-pie (mmmm, pie) baby hat.

A while ago Yvonne and I worked out that there’s only so much knitting mojo to go around. Clearly someone has stolen mine for a while (and I’m keeping a close eye on you, Wyvernfriend!), or I’ve carelessly left it somewhere.

Now, there’s only one thing to do when mojo has gone missing: Knit something really really boring easy.

I present a 1×1 rib scarf:

The grey stripes will be at either end – now it’s just lots and lots of ribbing, in plain very-dark-brown. The yarn’s lovely though – Artesano Aran. Plus it’s good pub knitting, as I don’t need to think about it at all.

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Yesterday a few of us went on a little outing to a closing down weavers in Drogheda. There were some yarns there, but mainly fine wools on cones, and until I knit down some of my Avoca sale stash I’m not buying any more like that. I did buy 200g of a purple/green aran weight wool, but it only cost €1, so it was practically free, and it would have been wrong to leave it there.

What I did buy though, was buttons. 115 to be precise. I’m working on my button collection and they were hard to resist. I love buttons.

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Today I haven’t knit yet. This has nothing to do with the fact that I have another baby kimono to seam before I start knitting again. Nothing at all to do with that.

Instead, I’ve been making stitch markers, because all of mine are in projects on the needles have mysteriously disappeared. I’ve just been using up random beads I had in my collection, not making anything special.

Much more fun than seaming.