{"id":13739,"date":"2020-10-29T22:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T21:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13739"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:33:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:33:20","slug":"daily_2115_-_forcing_myself_to_move_continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/daily_2115_-_forcing_myself_to_move_continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2115 – forcing myself to move, continued"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nToday I forced myself to get out of the house and cycle to a yarn shop on S\u00f6der. (I have enough flex hours accumulated that I can easily take half a day off when I want to.)<\/p>\n

I want to knit another cardigan, so I need yarn. Sock yarn I can buy on the internet but a cardigan is a larger investment. I want to see the yarn up close and touch it before buying.<\/p>\n

I’m planning to knit a black cardigan. Black. Unimaginative and perhaps a bit boring, yes. When I’m wearing a colourful skirt or a patterned dress, the rest of the outfit sometimes has to take a step back. <\/p>\n

The yarn shop Litet Nystan<\/a> was full of lovely yarns. The ones that my eyes and hands kept returning to were the colourful, variegated, hand-dyed ones. I will have to find a project for these, after the black cardigan.<\/p>\n

Among the black yarns I couldn’t find any that quite felt like what I had in mind. The merino wools were too smooth and bland; the plain Swedish and Norwegian wools too thick and not soft enough. I came home with a wool yarn and a mohair blend that, when combined, will hopefully work out. The wool will provide thickness and body and the mohair will soften it.<\/p>\n

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I had a restaurant lunch (somewhat disappointing) and bought some mini Sarah Bernhardt cakes for myself, before spending almost an hour in the yarn shop and then cycling back home. By the time I was unlocking my bike again to head home, it was twilight.<\/p>\n

It felt good to get out of the house and see and do something new. I needed this.
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