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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Geogradiant MKAL Part 1 - that was unexpected (spoilers)

Stephen West released the first MKAL clue on Thursday night. I started knitting it without looking at spoilers. When I got up on Friday he had sent through an "alternative" clue one. I then went and had a look at the spoiler thread to try to work out what was going on. Which was that some people thought the pattern looked like a "German hate symbol". I knit on anyway, since I was half-way through. Then he took down the original clue, replacing it with a mitred square in garter stitch. The Ravelry forums and Instagram are a complete shit-show, even though Rav is being moderated. It's been a bit disheartening, having something that is usually quite light and fun weighed down with all this. I admire Stephen's quick and sensitive response to this drama. I also feel that anything can look like anything if you squint. To me this looks like a Celtic knot. I think mine is pretty, and I'll knit on through all crises.

Linky Wednesday - the one with the drama

The drama about the Stephen West MKAL continues, and I can't be bothered with it. It's meant to be a fun, interesting, communal knit and and that's not what this year has turned in to. Stephen has done his best in a difficult situation, but I'm just not feeling it. Meanwhile, Israel is at war, and we (as a country) are going to vote "no" on a referendum that asks for basic consideration for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders. So yeah, lots of turmoil here. It's very tiring. I'm knitting a sock and considering what happens next. Luckily the reading was dramatic in a good way. I'm reading a NetGalley review copy of Last Summer at the Lake House and it's great. Super dramatic family drama about three sisters who loose their father unexpectedly and then find out that the family has secrets. I 've nearly finished it and I don't know what I'm going to read next. I've got a bit of a break between review books, so maybe Sta

Mussleburgh musings

I made a Mussleburgh hat earlier in the year, and even though I thought I was following the directions exactly it did not come out quite right. It was a little bit loose. My head is 51 cm, my gauge was 7 stitches, so according to the pattern I knit the right size. It's also a little bit shorter than I would like it. Too long for a beanie, too short for a good turn-up. I couldn't work out why. I still wore it, but it was not quite right. When I decided to knit one for Elise I knew I wanted to make it longer, and tighter. After I finished Elise's (with 24 fewer stitches) I realised something about mine: Now, this is a knit tube. I know how to knit tubes. When I make sleeves or socks, they don't balloon out in the middle. So I decided to reblock it. The instructions actually specifically say to fold it inside each other after blocking, but I probably folded it and dried it on my head, because that's how I block my hats. Not this time: Now it's longer and thinner

What I made, by Sharon

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