Knit Bath Mat
Rag yarn made using this tutorial. I used an entire twin sheet and size 19 needle. This was my first time cabling, so I wrote out the pattern. The cabling turned out to be really simple, and looks impressive!
Cast on 24 stitches.
Row 1: KP x4 K8 KP x4
Row 2: PK x4 P8 PK x4
Row 3: KP x4 K8 KP x4
Row 4: PK x4 P8 PK x4
*Row 5: KP x4 Knit Cable (4 by 4) KP x4
Row 6: PK x4 P8 PK x4
Row 7: KP x4 K8 KP x4
Row 8: PK x4 P8 PK x4
Row 9: KP x4 K8 KP x4
Row 10: PK x4 P8 PK x4
Row 11: KP x4 K8 KP x4
Row 12: PK x4 P8 PK x4
Repeat from * until desired length. To match with front, end with a Row 9 and then bind off.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
—Jane Austen, Emma (via libraryland)
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
—Ogden Nash (via libraryland)
It’s Friday! What are you reading?
Just started reading Matt Haig’s The Radleys and it’s AMAZING. You have to read it!
Just starting YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE by Siobhan Fallon. Must know what all the hype is about!
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Scrabble Boards and Basketballs: Inside the Offices of Lambert, Edwards & Associates
I wish my workplace had a giant Scrabble board.
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
—from Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.
—from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Glenn used to say the reason you can’t really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, “I’ll be dead,” you’ve said the word I, and so you’re still alive inside the sentence. And that’s how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar. And so was God, because as soon as there’s a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don’t know, and that’s what God is.
—from The Year of the Flood: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
