Not the long-planned knitting update...

I started my purple, laceweight, learnt-from-my-mistakes Featherweight cardigan on Sunday. It was awesome. But something was slightly off: my needles seemed to have shrunk. I thought that was a natural shift in perception resulting from having made several pairs of socks on 5mm needles and went on my merry way.

Until this afternoon, when I was lounging in front of the TV, resting a little from my knitting. And glanced below the TV, and saw ... a glass fruit bowl full of hexipuffs. Cue lightbulb moment: after I swatched for the cardigan, I found my hexipuff WIP at the back of a closet and started working some more of them on my favourite needle, the slightly bent 3mm circular that fits my hands perfectly. Which was also the needle I swatched with. But which wasn't attached to my newly started cardigan.

Normally I frog quite gleefully, but this time it's tough. It looked wrong and felt wrong, and I should have realised straight away that that pristine needle definitely was not my well-loved 3mm. But nope, over a thousand stitches and several hours of work for nothing.

I don't always love knitting!