You know it is officially Too Hot to Knit, when you see me knitting with cotton yarn. Ordinarily I steer well clear of cotton. I find it hard, inflexible and top of the list for hand pain when I knit with it.

But the last few days with temperatures above 30c in the South East of England (and in the 20s at night) have meant that just looking at wool brings me out in a sweat. So cool cotton is the order of the day.

I was given one of those fancy facial cleansers that you need to take off with hot water and a cloth, ages ago and I haven’t used it because of lack of said cloth. Of course I could have bought a cloth (or cut up an old sheet or something) but like any self-respecting knitter my inner voice piped up to say ‘you could knit that’.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who, when faced with buying something that is either needed or wanted puts it off with a thought to make it yourself. Of course the reality is that other things compete for your knitting attention and the needed thing never gets made.

And in my case, the lovely gifted thing also doesn’t get used but just sits on my bathroom shelf looking fancy.

So, it may be ‘cracking the flag’s’ outside as my Grandma used to say, but come this evening I might be hot, but at least I’ll have clean pores.

Do you have any go-to patterns or yarns for hot weather knitting? I’d ordinarily go for socks but even they feel ‘too woolly’ for me right now.