Diversion

Bonus points if you have spotted that this is not knitting. This week, I have been mostly stitching and sketching:

If I don't know what to embroider, I'll muck about with pastel or paints for a bit, to a) procrastinate a bit longer and b) to try out ideas. In the City & Guilds courses (a grand total of two courses I took but never finished. That's another story), they taught us to use the sketches as starting points. I've been afraid of drawing for years, ever since I left school with a miserable excuse for a qualification in Art. When I did the C&G, I learnt that sketching and drawing were just a means to an end, and that your sketches weren't supposed to look like Dürer's. Which is just as well, really.

Knitting vs stitching: well, of course, you can't watch Corrie and stitch simultateously, so I can only say that I've heard but not seen recent episodes...whereas I can enjoy the full spectacle when knitting.

I'm not sure if I've finished this or not, so it's sitting in a frame but isn't on the wall yet.

I think I'll keep going back to it. But there is the small matter of a purple cardigan that might just get in the way...