Another Musselburgh

I mailed off the Malabrigo Musselburgh on Monday and started another one on Tuesday It’s a prefect project to knit while watching TV. I grabbed a. Ball of Crazy Zauberball yarn that I purchased probably more than a decade ago. I know it was a long time ago because the price tag was $19.99 and when I checked the current retail price it’s now $29.99.

I plan to knit it extra long again, kitting a second crown near the end of the ball and graft it onto the ‘tube’.

It is not the softest yarn but won’t be overly scratchy, either. I seem to be obsessed with kitting these hats.

Last night at guild Jeanette had a stitched piece on display that wasn’t fully finished. So I whipped out my ‘All is Calm’ and put it on the Show and Share table, too. 

While I was watching Teresa Kogut’s floss tube, she mentioned the quote, ‘Do small things with great love’. I thought I’d add it on the bottom of the piece. 

I did a search on Pinterest for some alphabets and graphed the text with my upgraded version of PCStitch. I had to stitch one over one to get all the words on. I agonized over what colour to use for the text and picked white. 

I still think I’ll turn it into a little pillow. 

I had someone over today to finally discuss replacing my kitchen cupboards. I’m not doing a major renovation - just keeping the same footprint and ditching the 42 year-old cupboards.

He noted that I was a knitter from my email signature. I told him I was also an embroiderer. He said his mom was, too, and that she was in a group that got together to stitch every Monday morning. Turns out that’s MY Monday morning stitching group, too! Small world. We also bonded over having attended Western, albeit graduating 12 years apart. He lived in the same dorm I did and hung out with Faculty of Music folks - the same faculty I was in. Small world!

• Watched ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter” on Prime - lots of fun bits, it kinda lost its way par way through but i would still recommend it
• Last night I watched the documentary about the Toronto woman who lost her memory in 2022 due to a series of head traumas. “50,000 First Dates”. I’m not sure why I hadn’t ever heard of her. In the media but it was interesting. I would recommend it.
• I also watched ‘Miss Potter’ on Prime on Teresa Kogut’s recommendation. It’s about Beatrix Potter and would recommend it as well.