Occupation for a very hot day

So hot, even first thing,  My left anle swells up in the daytime, so I try to keep it elevated.  This means looking for something useful to do in this position.  Normally when I do Russian joins of my scraps, I wind onto a crochet cotton centre, as it is such rigid cardboard it doesn't collapse like kitchen roll.  Please, no toilet rolls- ugh!.  Then I use the ball winder.  This time I have an empty cone, so am trying direct on that.  A standard length of scrap is 50 times round - obviously this will vary.

Later observations after three cones wound - try not to get a beehive shape.  Although it looks very pretty, it doesn't knit off easily at speed!

Potty pot pot

 Adapted from a hand knitting pattern, and an obvious

candidate for the circular machine.  Mind you, you have to like picking up hems!

Old skill revisted

 I thought I would make a few more lace coat hangers in machine knitting.  I went back seven years in my notebooks and couldn't find the pattern notes (ETA on Ravelry says June 2012 - no wonder!).  Found the punchcard, "Mrs Trotter's Lace" - so-called asI first used it for a jumper for my old friend Diana, WI President so many years ago.  I worked out that I needed a couple of stitches each side of the lace, worked out where to put the stoppers in.  The one coat hanger I had kept for myself had three sideways repeats of the patterns, but was a bit floppy, so I went with two, just 24sts plus the margins. 120 rows on T7 in the rather stiff white cotton I have been using for waste yarn.  It is slightly slubby and has come out a nice effect.  The three coat hangers, pink, green, blue, were from Secret Sales (what a daft name for a firm of mundane ojects).

Not cost effective for re-sale but what the heck.