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Making hard work of simple decisions

if you have been around here for  any length of time you will know that I love to knit all the time, and I'm very happy knitting in public, on public transport, in bars, pretty much anywhere. After I finished my mini-skein madness I knew I wanted to knit Starkeeker by Kate Davies. I'm using yarn I bought for something else, and I should have enough, but I might not. Anyw3ay, I've started, with lots of hope.

 I knit colourwork two handed, so it's really not suitable for knitting when I'm drinking. And next week, exactly a week from when I cast this on, is  Pint of Origin, rapidly followed by Good Beer Week. I considered my options - knit this while out, don't knit while drinking this year (hahaha) or cast on another project to knit in public. Such a simple solution. So unexpected.

I have two choices for secondary projects - some simple charity knitting. I'm o

n  mission to use up all the scraps of colourwork yarn I have left over. Bits and pieces that are less that a 25 gram ball:

OR - the first day of Pint of Origin is also the Meribek (used to be Coburg) yarn show. I could buy yarn for a Humulous for Leon, and cast on that afternoon. (I'm going to do it bottom up, so I wouldn't get to the colourwork until after the two weeks of beer festival has finished).

So many simple solutions to my problem that wasn't really a problem. Now I just need to manage the concept of knitting two projects at the same time, and all will be simple.

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