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A time to knit and a time to not

Since I started knitting, back in January 2006, I've done a lot more of it during the winter months than the summer ones. Partly that's perhaps due to the long dark evenings being more conducive to sitting down and knitting to the accompaniment of a good CD (or more recently a Spotify playlist) and partly due to the fact that in the colder months I'm more inclined to be wanting warm socks, hats and the other kinds of things that I like to knit.

At the start of last year, however, I ran into some difficulties with a sock that I was knitting. These were mainly caused by multiple breakages in the yarn (probably as a result of damage sustained before I bought it on eBay - caveat emptor!) rather than my own ineptitude, but were very frustrating. As well as giving up on the socks I had been working on, I abandoned knitting pretty much entirely for the rest of the year.

I think I always intended to return to it sooner or later, and certainly I didn't get rid of any of my stuff (even the problem yarn), but it wasn't until the very end of December, or possibly even the start of this January, that I picked up my needles again.

2009 was not entirely devoid of creative fibrework for me, though, as I did get round to crocheting a bow holster for my double bass:

I had been wanting a bow holster for some time, to facilitate switching between bowing and plucking in the middle of a song. All the commercially available ones I could find cost at least £30 and looked way too posh for my bass. I decided that a fairly freeform crochet one would fit nicely with the paintwork as well as being a lot cheaper and potentially quite fun to make. I think I originally thought of the idea well over a year ago, but it was not until last September that I got round to starting it. Once it was underway, I had it finished within a few days (although I may yet return to add some decorations to it).

This bow holster is one of only about two crochet projects I've yet done and I don't have any particular plans for more crochet just yet, although I'd like to do some more fairly soon. On the other hand, the last month has seen a return to fairly frenetic knitting activity. More details to follow tomorrow...

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