Patterns

Usually I love to improvise rather than follow a pattern (or a recipe). It feels more like playing, I can use what I have and I revel in the contradictory satisfaction of beginning with a definate idea of what I want and (through a process of endless choices and experiments) end up with a total surprise. I like not having to make all the decisions at the outset, to enjoy the journey, thinking all the way. I love that whatever project I have on the go informs the feeling of a particular time of my life, just like the book I'm reading or the music I'm listening to. While Mo slept today I lay on another pregnancy project (granny squares crocheted repetitively in endless, improvised colours of tapestry wool while watching The West Wing-), adding a little to last night's cast on project, the Kai Sweater from Natural Knits for Babies and Mums by Louisa Harding. The Debbie Bliss 'Pure Cotton' is so soft and the colour so perfect that I think I'm going to enjoy being carried along on this one, through episodes of The Wire and a new longer midday nap pattern that my little one thought up all on his own.