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Well, this is the good and unexpected. My little circles of Sirdar colour evolved into a lovely blanket (using the Sunny Spread pattern on Ravelry), which won third place in crochet homewares at the Royal Melbourne Show. I was delighted. This was my second win this year.
Of course, when all starts spinning out of control, it's good to have woolly comfort to look back on. At one stage, I was not only finishing a university placement; although I had been preparing beforehand, I had a week full of 10,000 words of assignments. If you asked me now what some of them were about, I couldn't tell you!
Then came a lovely week's break...but at the end of it, I had a tickle in my throat, and slightly sore eyes. I couldn't even crochet properly in the evening.
Three doctors' visits later, I've nearly recovered from whatever it was that had me in its grip - something like a pumped up Flu Does Survivor. Now I am back in the land of crochet hooks and books, a little later than desired, but well in time for Christmas preparations.
And it's a lovely place to be. Springtime, half a crocheted bag, a cup of tea and a good magazine - may this be the way it continues to go for at least the next few weeks.
