Life has come full circle again, and I am here unraveling a beautiful blue greecian yarn that I initially knitted into a chunky jumper in Germany in 1990! I wore it there and I bought it back home, and for the last few years it has sat in my 'alterations' pile to be transformed into something else more 'me'.

At last I have a reason to disassemble the pieces and it doesn't hurt as much as enough time has certainly passed since the hard work went into the construction. My dd9 is learning to knit and needed some chunky gauge yarn for an ear-flap hat - I didn't want to purchase more yarn as our focus is on simplifying, using-up and preparing for Germany.

And the likelihood is that this hat will travel back to the place whence it came. How bizarre!