Unravelled Wednesday - the one where we leave lockdown (again!)

We went into a 5 day lockdown on Friday midnight, and get out at midnight tonight. It's interesting to me, when we're locked down and I'm working from home I read less and knit more. This week I decided to start Leon's Winter Set (2021). Here is the first mitt and the begging of the second. I'm basing it on Stephanie Purl-McPhee's One Row Handspun scarf pattern, and knitting it out of my own handspun, which is very satisfying.

And here is a my Kindle and my brand new Joji&Co Hobo bag in cranberry suede:

I didn't mean to theme the colours, but I really wanted a stand case, and they are hard to come by for the Kindle Oasis. Who knows, maybe I'm over teal and everything will turn cranberry now.

I am reading The Purl King by Sarah Painter

It's the fourth in the series, and it's turning into quite a reliable series. Each book introduces new elements, and there was quite a surprise in this one. I'm very nearly finished, and then I've got 3 NetGalley review books that are released in March, so I had been get reading on them.

And that was my week, I stayed home and knit a lot! Hope yours was O.K. too, no matter what weirdness is going on in your part of the world.

I'm joining in with Kat and the rest of the crew for Unravelled Wednesday, over at As Kat Knits.

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Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

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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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