My 100th Post!

Yesterday I saw bloggers enjoying easy projects while coping with nuclear powered cold viruses similar to the one that I've been "enjoying"...

• Knitting on Impulse on the west coast of Canada has been focused on the beauty of knit and purl stitches from the confines of her couch.


• Ysolda in Edinburgh with their sniffles has been doing garter stitch with soothingly red yarn in the midst of a cold, rainy Scottish autumn.


• Yarn Harlot here in T.O. knit a k2p2 scarf while she was under the weather late last week.

Then Sunshine Soapbox commented I should cast on stockinette socks rather than tax my virus addled brain with the cable patterned bag that had me ready to quit knitting Monday night.

Sunshine Soapbox is a smart woman - the other three, clearly brilliant as well so I took her advice, followed the example of the others...

Gathered Pullover by Hana Jason - "CO172, knit in loose stockinette in the round for 9 inches" - essentially a giant sock. (I'm hopeful by the time I get to dividing for the back and front my cold and brain will have cleared enough to cope with the "challenge" of counting). And its red - my lifelong favourite colour!

Speaking of which - a couple of other red images that caught my eye this morning...yes, along with snow, I have flames on the sides of my car...

And along the side of our driveway, also with snow a "Burning" Bush (Euonamus alata) ...

Thanks ladies of knitblogland for the great inspiration. Next up its time to make pink applesauce with these beauties...