Hello! I hope this finds you all well. Here, after a very wet spring, we’re suddenly having a week of hot and dry weather. Personally, I prefer cool and rainy days, but it is summer after all. We’re halfway through the year, and I’m halfway through my current take-along project – my third Polka Dot Scarf.
I’ve given the other two away. This time I’ve chosen a colour nobody I know likes, so that I can keep it for myself.
I’m also halfway through a simple pair of socks and halfway through a bee-themed embroidery kit.
All enjoyable and relaxing projects, but I’m beginning to feel restless. I really need something more interesting and challenging alongside, but what? My problem is never a lack of ideas. I often have so many ideas that I feel overwhelmed and paralysed. Where do I go from here? Do you know that feeling?
So I do what I always do when I don’t know what to do – write about it. My thinking process is also helped by tea.
After making a long list of the things I’d like to make and considering the pros and cons of each, I have a lightbulb moment. Didn’t I have some kind of plan for 2024? Of course! Halfway through January I made a short list that was meant as a kind of map for the year.
One of the things on it that I haven’t done much about yet is Norwegian knitting. How could I forget about that? Some of you even gave me great ideas for Norwegian books to read, too! Never mind the hot weather, that’s just what I need. It feels good to know where I’m going again.
Last week I wrote that I’m trying to make my posts shorter, and I really won’t ramble on any longer, but I just have to show you where the pictures of the Polka Dot Scarf were taken. It was in a lovely out-of-the-way place, with a hidden, disused lock from the time peat was extracted here and transported to other parts of the country by boat.
Just follow the grassy path below and enjoy a moment of calm in this special place. Xxx
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Beautiful and a lovely chat as well. As always, thank you.
It’s been a pleasure to compose and I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed it.
I do know the feeling! Too many ideas, too little time and a stash that is always growing!
Please don’t make your posts shorter, though. I love reading them.
Exactly! And thank you, I’ll keep you in mind while writing.