Buggeration

Damn.

I've been designing a pair of socks using a cable pattern I found in a book. I'd started and restarted these socks as I was struggling with them. Just as I thought I had the pattern down and was ready to start the heel flap of the first sock, this months copy of The Knitter arrived in the post.

In it was a pattern with the exact same cable. Granted, it was for a purse, knit flat, but still, I'm not happy with going ahead with designing the socks now. So yeah. Frogged :(

Ah well. I will look for another pattern, maybe a nice lace pattern for some socks. In the meantime I fancy designing a scarf.

In other news, I have been eating healthily and exercising on the Wii Fit, which is all good fun. I tend to find that with exercise in my routine, I seem to spend the whole day feeling hungry. I've upped the water intake, just in case it's thirst instead of genuine hunger, but I can guarantee that within an hour of me eating, then I'll be hungry again. I can work with this by drinking something, then having a small, healthy snack. Right now, I'm loving carrots, hoummous, rocket lettuce, corn on the cob, sparkling water and grapes. Not necessarily all together mind!

I'm also getting a tattoo tomorrow - woohoo! It's going to be a rose to symbolise the new me and also because you can't get something gorgeous like a rose without manure - and I've had plenty of that in the past, but it's all in the past now. Time for the beautiful things :)