Weekending - so many projects!

We had a long weekend - Friday was a public holiday so we could go to a parade for a football game, but there was no parade, because we are still in lockdown. I'm not complaining about a bonus day off, and I caught up with Lu for coffee and Elise for lunch and it is delightful to see my friends again.

On Friday I finally finished the body and sleeves of my mother's cardigan. Then I blocked it, and steeked it.

While it was drying I cast on a little baby cardigan, since I was hardly going to not knit for an evening! It's a simple top down raglan, knit with really fun sparkle yarn from 24 Mile Hollow. It's a prettier shade of blue than it looks here.

Meanwhile I've been getting, and knitting, regular clues for the Gnome KAL. He has a hat now.

So it was a bit odd, because then I had to choose what I was going to knit when, which is not normally an issue for me.

On Saturday we saw Skip and Bee for a picnic, and it only rained on us a little bit.

And Leon started a puzzle. It's pink, with pink and pink.

And on Sunday I finally ran some distance - I've been rehabing an injury for the last 8 weeks, but I did three laps of Albert Park Lake (16kms in all) and that was plenty!

I need to ball up another skein of yarn for my mother's jumper, but instead of doing that I knit on the baby jumper. I don't feel a great deal of rush - I had to order buttons on-line (shops still shut) and even though I bought from Victorian Sellers, the estimated delivery date is still a fortnight (shops shut = lots of packages in the mail). So it was a weekend with lots of bits and pieces, but also satisfying and relaxing.

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Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

We are heading off for some camping and hiking and general R&R on Friday, so I'm currently in planning and preparing mode. Of course that mainly means deciding what to knit - I'm going to make the Old Romance cardigan by Joji Locatelli. The yarn is wound and I'm ready to go. I completed Leon's Winter Set (2023) just in time, and it's currently blocking. I'm reading Georgette Hayer's Fredrica , which I am enjoying very much. Regency romance is so sweet and, unlike current romance offerings, I know it won't suddenly tumble into gynaecological territory! For unexplained reasons, NetGalley is offering some Georgette Heyer books at the moment - (maybe it's re-release?) and I'm taking this opportunity to read a few more of them And that's my week in knitting and reading. To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as Sharondoublekni t and on GoodReads as Sharondblk . I'm joining in with Kat ...

Yarnalong - the one with the final bit of transport

Remember how I took every form of transport known to man a fortnight ago? Well, I was missing just one thing, suburban trains. But today I got to remedy that, knitting my way to Dandenong for work. Yay? My Char jumper has been knitting up ridiculously fast. It's easy, pleasant and a well written pattern. I'm reading Rachael Herron's latest book The Ones Who Matter Most . It's a good read so far, family centered fiction, easy to read but still emotionally challenging. I'm listening to Evelyn Waugh's Men At Arms . I'm enjoying it, I didn't really know what to expect, but some of it reminds me of Catch 22, in that it catalogues the absurdities of war and bureaucracy. The narrator has the perfect upper crust English accent and I'm very pleased it's the first of a trilogy. And that's another week of reading, knitting and catching trains everywhere for me. Do pop along to Ginny's blog to see what she and the rest of the yarnalong ...

Slowly slowly

I haven’t posted about my actual knitting for a while. This might be because not much has changed since the last time I talked about my knitting. This is the edging of my Village Sweater Wrap: The picture fails to capture how much further there is to go. I'm just past the first arm hole, so just over a third of the way through. It’s 47 stitches of relatively simple lace. I’ve been knitting it since Monday two weeks ago. It’s quite pleasant, and slowly growing but I can’t quite work out why it’s growing so slowly. One reason I know is that the first week I was knitting it during Good Beer Week, so I didn’t take it out and about with me. I knit other things, and when I’m knitting two things it makes everything feel like it takes forever. But the main reason, I think, is that this is just a slow knit for me. I love the needles I’m knitting on ( Karbonz of course) I love the yarn, I love the way the lace looks. So really, what’s the rush? I’m not going to be cold...

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