Cottage Cardi
Oh, the story of this one... I started the Cottage Cardigan at the end of July and didn't finish until mid-September. This is a very long time for me. The pattern is simple and elegantly written. The yarn was lovely once I got to know it. It's Brooklyn Tweed Loft. But my hands! When we got back from Spain my hands and wrists were really bothering me. But it started much earlier. In March of this year, I was on a dig site for the weekend and strained my wrists. I didn't think about it then and just kept knitting... Then weeks went by and they were still sore. So I took a break. Not knitting is hard for me. I do it in class, while watching tv in the evening with the family, waiting for kids in pick-up lines, and at events. Pretty much always. But now, my wrists were sore, my pinky and ring finger were often numb. It's bi-lateral. A nightmare in the making. It got better. I tried to avoid holding things in certain ways, putting pressure on my wrists the wr