Weekending - Getting things done

It was meant to be a quiet weekend - Leon and i got our 2nd COVID boosters (the bivalent one) on Thursday, and we both had side effects that felt a lot like COVID. It was a brutal 26 hours,a and then I got better. On Friday i was too fatigued to knit! Aweful. i wasn't too tired to read, and I'm reading Miranda Saphire's A Light in the Dark, which is a sexy, feminist retelling of The Beauty and the Beast, so much of the day was spent lying on the couch reading.

On Saturday I went to the gym and then had the rest of the day for whatever I wanted (after cleaning the house of course. We always clean first, and then do the relaxing). I finished the sneaker liners with the SHaG heel.

I really like the heel, it's the same fit as a heel flap and gusset, but much tidier.

Then I made a cat toy That was meant to be a gift. Which would have been great, except I left it on the bed and Willow decided it was great to play with. Successful cat toy, failed gift. I'll make another, it's too cute not to.

Then I dyed some yarn - I want to make a fun children's jumper for charity, so I thought I would dye up some natural yarn in pink and blue, and then it would be purple where the colours met. This is how it looked when I painted it.

This is how it looks now.

I think I used too much blue and it bled. Still, I think this deep purple variegated yarn is magnificent, and will make a great children's set. It just wasn't what I thought I was making.

I cast on a cowl, to complete the current set I was making for AKWAK. It's so quick, knitting on 6mm needles with three strands of Left Over Sock Wool (losy). Here's the full set.

We watched a movie on Saturday night, and went to brunch and then Bunnings with Elise on Sunday, and it's magically finished.

I gave Elise the hat I knit for her over a month ago, and it looks so good on her.

So there you go. Even though I'm sososo tired I actually got a lot done. I also went for a run and did some gardening. It's so hard to get a good picture of my balcony, because the plants are all spread out.

What a satisfying weekend!

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