A weekend of celebration

I had a great weekend, although it reminds me of the old joke about needing a holiday to recover!

On Friday night my parents hosted a dinner to celebrate my birthday and Chanukah. We had some drinks with dinner, and then at ten o'clock all went back to Kris and Katie's place to hang out.

Saturday I went to my last dance class for the year. The Pole studio is closed until the 6th of January, which is 17 days. When I did CrossFit it was closed for one day. We used the go do a workout on Christmas mornings. Anyway, I'll keep myself busy with other fitness activities, which brings us to Sunday. We though we should visit Leon's parents in Ballarat and, since Kris has gone away without her car, we drove, instead of our usual train. This meant we could stop and Lerderderg on the way and go for a trail run - although the middle part was steep and rocky, so it was more of a power hike. It was, as always, so nice to be out in nature, whatever speed we were moving at!

By the time we'd done that, got some lunch in Bacchus Marsh, visited with Leon's parents and driven back home it was dinner time. Then we lit Channukah candles for the last time this year. Because of what happened in Bondi it's been a very poignant Channukah.

On Friday I started a new spinning project in the prettiest of colours. I don't have any photos, but if you come back on Wednesday I'll tell you all about what I was spinning, reading and knitting during all this running around and having fun.

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Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

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Why Andrea Mowry, why? (A rant and a rather nice finished object)

As mentioned, prior to our hiking trip I suddenly, and rather randomly, decided to knit Andrea Morwy's Traveler Shell . It's basically an open fronted rectangle in a knit purl pattern. The pattern is FOURTEEN pages long. Why is the pattern 14 pages long? Because, instead of explaining the ten row repeat and then putting the shaping on top of that (e.g. decrease while continuing to knit in pattern), she writes out the entire ten row knit purl sequence every time something changes. Additionally, most of the time she starts with even number being the right side and wrong numbers being the right side,which is just plain odd. It's confusing and it's like she wants to keep you looking at the pattern for every row, rathe than following the very intuitive stitch pattern, which I had memorised after one repeat. The instructions for the band just say 'pick up x number of stitches'. No ratios, no acjnowledgement that different bits of the band have different ratios. Afte...

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