Being holed up in the snow the last week has got me back to thinking about all the things that I love. Cooking. Reading. Making things. Procrastinating.
One cold snowy night I curled up in bed with one of the best gifts that I received at Christmas, "Homemade" by Ros Badger and Elspeth Thompson and I was inspired and motivated in equal measure. 'Right', I thought, 'time to pull your finger out Spanier' and yesterday I sat down with some vintage yarn by Palette and started to crochet what I plan will be a lovely blanket. Creating the foundation chain sometimes feels never ending, as do those first few rows, but then it starts to look like something more than finger knitting and you find yourself unable to put your project down (generally to the frustration of Mr Kate, c'est la vie mon brave) but it is undeniably a great project for this proper winter that we are having.
So, what next for this year?
Big project, although not really down to me, is the new kitchen. With each day our master craftsman creates yet more of the beautiful cabinets but installation date still seems so far away. But when the planning consents have been given and the internal work has been done and the kitchen is in, there will be the pant wettingly exciting challenge of learning the art of aga cooking. Already I have more cookbooks that I imagine I will ever need, but I cannot help but pour over them, the mouth watering pictures that litter the pages of Mary Berry, Lucy Young and Amy Willcock work me into a state of sublime anticipation.
Then there is finding a corner of the cottage to make my own, where I can store my yarn stash, my fabric stash and my craft books. And once that is done there is dusting off the sewing machine after a few months of idle splendor and finishing off my Sew Hip! mystery quilt. We could have used it to snuggle under on the sofa these last few nights.
The main challenge is using this blog to witter about projects, plans for projects and not getting on with my projects. So be warned and watch this space!
