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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