who would have thought it - knitting

Well, knitting on a knitting blog.  How strange.  This is the Moda wool, sock wool actually, from Sp*tl*ght the other day.  It's going to be a shawl, a very simple shawl, knit till I run out of wool.

I'm not up to concentrating much at the moment and this will be very simple.  A border of garter stitch, increases on right side rows and purls on the wrong side.  Yarnover, knit 2 together across the row when the fancy takes me.  It's the knitting for when I'm not knitting.  If it's big enough when I run out of wool and cast off, I'll leave it.  Otherwise I'll use a toning colour and pick up some stitches around the edge and make a border.

Saturday was the first open house before my former home goes up for auction later in the month.  DIL thought I ought to go at some time as a form of closure.  So I went with middle son and his three children, eldest is eleven.  I wasn't looking forward to it at all.

There were a lot of people there, which is good.  Some changes were sort of OK, new fence was good.  Some were horrible.  I was undone when I walked into my former bedroom which had been beautiful.  There was my former husband folding clothes.  I thought occupants were asked to leave for such inspections.

I got outside but felt really bad and my eleven year old grandson patted me on the arm telling me everything will be fine.  Rationally, I can agree with him, but I wasn't terribly rational at the time.

So my concentration is currently shot to  pieces.