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FO: Pom Cosy

Tea is one of my most favourite things. It's a bit of recurring theme with my friends and family - there are few things I love more than afternoons with a pot of tea with lovely people and quality conversation. This afternoon I'm meeting up with some of my top girlfriends to quaff tea, help plan a veggie patch in my friend's back yard and make some lists of things to do before we all turn thirty. 

I started this cosy in January as a housewarming gift for my lovely friend Sonya. However, while I managed to finish the sides and sew it up quite quickly, it did languish in various parts of my house for months until I got round to making the pompoms (and overcame my desire to keep the it for myself!). The pattern was from the same book as the Sheep, I am very pleased with the finished result. When parcelled up with some chocolate buttons from Greensmiths, Sonya was also quite chuffed. One of the reasons I like it is that before poms were added, it did look very like a sea anemone: I see more anemone/sea urchin cosies appearing in the future...

I knit it in Sirdar Click. While I don't usually knit with acrylic, I did want something very washable. I bow to the very sensible advice from Abby, Annabel and Ellen who helped me buy the wool: I think it helped to create a nice springy effect and I liked the effect of the floats on the inside.

All details are ravelled here.

If you haven't already seen it, I thoroughly recommend Kate's marvellous post on tea and the
exploitation of female knitters on Shetland. Well worth a read.

37

…is the number of plays written by Shakespeare (if you count Henry IV in three parts)
…x2=74-1=73, 73 backwards is 37
… is the number of projects I apparently have in my stash.

That is right, I have enough yarn to knit 37 things as the list above shows. This realisation has slowly been dawning since I realised I had more yarn than I thought I did and while it isn't enormous, it is a little bit larger than I would like. So, I’m embarking on a big knit through the stash and destashing exercise of which more information will follow. Meanwhile I’m going to try and cross a few of those projects off! The slightly scary thing is that this doesn't feature projects that I have been thinking about for the last couple of years. My project list is almost a list of things that I have mentally knit in my head (does anyone else do this?) so I felt quite surprised that some of things haven't been done or finished already! It does mean that I will also have to be strong in the face of viral knits sweeping Ravelery!