The knitting club has started up again after a break for Christmas and New Year. The Wednesday afternoon sessions are messy in the best sense. It’s crowded, there is barely any place to put your bag down, there are multiple conversations going on at the same time, and I know the names of maybe one fifth of the people. There’s no common project or theme like we sometimes have at the embroidery club – everyone just does their thing. Which is absolutely wonderful – I can be inspired by so many different ongoing projects. Today someone was wearing a cardigan based on a pattern that I’ve been thinking about knitting, and I could talk to them about it. Someone else turned out to have Estonian heritage and was knitting with a handspun yarn from Haapsalu. Another person had made felted slippers with the same yarn that I used for mine, but gotten them more felted than I managed, so we talked about what we did differently.