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 ...

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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