It's time for me to get this out into the open and I have taken steps to remedy my poor behaviour.
So here it is. In all my fourteen months here, I have washed up after dinner perhaps five times. Dishes have been rinsed and left till the next day to be washed.
Well, that feels better. It may not look good but it certainly looks better than discovering the cutlery still has bits of last night's meal on it or there is still a scrap of onion in the frying pan.
My kitchen is small and U-shaped with sink across the bottom of the U. Unfortunately, the light is above my head and well behind me as I stand at the sink. There is a large shadow over the sink and even if I lift dishes to the side, it's not always easy to see if they are really clean. I had planned a dishwasher and was assured there was a cupboard already set up for one. True in some other apartments perhaps but not this one. I am glad I did not order one to arrive with new washing machine and refrigerator.

Picture was taken with main light out so the brightness of this could be seen. It's not terribly attractive to me, but scraps still on plate are worse. I'm not worried about it falling. The clip was so strong I needed two hands to open it to clip on to shelf. The jaws of the clip are rubber lined for extra grip.
I have started three separate designs for the Old Jeans merino from the Yarnyard in Britain. Each has not really worked. Today I found this mystery shawl pattern. It's been ages since I did something like this so I signed up. Nine clues delivered to my pattern library on Ravelry through June. I've done the first which was only 18 rows long.
The very first mystery shawl KAL I did was on a Yahoo group many years ago. I was a total beginner at lace and really had little idea about watching the pattern develop, or about reading charts, I used the written instructions. I could not make my stitch markers work properly. I realise now that stitch count varied between rows and in repeats. I was always looking for the omitted YO or finding where I hadn't knitted two together. To really cap off how much I was out of my depth, I had picked a pattern with lace on both sides, not just on the right side row.
I struggled a lot and eventually gave up when I could not fudge any more on the stitch count and when I realised pattern was all over the place.
I'm older and wiser and more skilled now.
2 comments:
A practical solution, if not the best looking one. My dad was horrified to learn that we wash up only after dinner; even now when I am at home most days it doesn't seem worth putting water in the sink for a breakfast plate, knife, lunch plate, another knife, a glass and sometimes a mug. He forgot that the washing up was only done once a day when both of them were working! When both of them retired, dad washed up five times a day: after breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. And mum washed up between preparing the meal and serving it so dad didn't have to wash the pots and pans!
Good luck with your mystery shawl.
I don't wash up all the time immediately wither. I don't have a dishwasher and it seems so much effort for so little cutlery and crockery. You are not alone!! Great light, Bits of our house are dark too because of the silly ceiling lights.
Happy KAL. You must have had a hard time with the last one, lace on both sides and varying stitch count!!
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