I started it at 6pm last night, and it was finished before 12pm today, and I even slept in the middle. The quick finished-ness of it makes me very happy indeed. I even MacGyvered a 3-needle cast-on with a safety pin because I foolishly just grabbed a ball of wool and one circular needle before leaving the house, then realised that I have a house full of knitting-related bits and bobs for several reasons, and that two of those reasons are sewing things up (tapestry needle) and complicated techniques (extra knitting needles). Anyway, the cast-on worked, with a bit of necessary swearing, and the ends got woven in thanks to Asda, who apparently have all the equipment I need for sewing sails as well as weaving in ends (I'm not kidding - I live about as far from the sea as you can get in the UK, and the local small Asda sells, along with the usual sew-on-a-button basic kits, a set of 7 multi-purpose sewing needles "for use with canvas, carpet, leather, sacks, sails and upholstery."). The boyfriend is also happy, because now he has a dice bag that will make all the other geeks in the games shop jealous. Success all round!
In other finished news, All the Light We Cannot See was phenomenal. Lyrical and beautiful and heartbreaking and brave, and another one that you should definitely read. I don't want to say much more about it, because it's not the kind of book you read because the plot sounds interesting (although the plot is interesting), it's the kind of book you read because you open it to the first page in the bookshop and then don't want to stop. Up there with The Paying Guests as one of the best books I've read this year.
And hey, look, I've finished a blog post as well! Good things come in threes.
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