Got the washing machine blues and knitter's delight

As I lay in bed this morning thinking about the day, I had such plans.

First thing was to put a load of washing on, I have heaps to do and then walk to our nearest Spotlight, about 5 km away. That would force me to get some exercise. Of course it didn't go to plan, first off my washing machine won't work, it just sits and clicks then puts up an E40 error, if I try perservering eventually it will start draining and then the screen goes to 000 and it starts beeping. Yup just what I needed.

Then my son realises he is running late, so I have to drive him and decide that seeing as I have the car out I should just drive to Spotlight and then get some food for the cat.

I've actually been to Spotlight everyday for the past 3 days, first was to buy yarn for a new cardigan, second was to take back said yarn and third was to buy more yarn.

I have really had the knitting bug, almost finished the last cardigan but found a pattern for one I couldn't resist. These are english patterns and I was happy to find a yarn that matched the tension requirements which knitted up beautifully. The new pattern uses larger needles and the tension works out extremely close to this yarn so I bought more of it. Was disappointed when I started knitting, apparently the differs in thickness and texture between dyelots. I took the new yarn back and last night tried it out on the leftover yarn which knits up beautifully of course. Just means I end up with 3 cardigans the same colour, which doesn't worry me because they are very different styles. I was even able to find the last ball of that dyelot at Spotlight today.

While I was out I saw a cute outfit for my new Great Nephew and took the time to take it over. It was our first meeting, he is 10 days old and very cute.