The impulse purchase

I started to write this blog as a response to some heartbreaking news about a dear family member. I have started writing a post about the whole story but have not yet managed to press the publish button. The draft sits in the ether and one day I may feel ready to share the whole story - but not today. 

Today my mind is elsewhere - in the not knowing an outcome, in waiting for a event which may or not give an answer, in some fear as to what the future may hold but an awareness of a powerlessness over the whole situation. My usual mantra of taking life one day at a time has never been more relevant so, in the spirit of faith and a belief that everything will be alright in the end, I made a rather large, impulsive online purchase.

Not a brilliantly well thought through purchase. 

43 100g balls of double knitting in a variety of colours, 1 of some, 2 of most and 3 of a few.

The plan is for log cabins but, if I had properly thought this through, I would have bought sensible a,punts of some colours. Inevitably, once I chose the colours for a throw, I will need to out in an order for additional balls of the more popular colours around the edges of squares and on borders.

The box was big, though, and it was exciting to open it and see what I had actually bought - and wonder why I had selected the range of colours. A good few months' knitting here - what joy.