Back from Queensland - family friends and (of course) beer

We got back from our Queensland holiday yesterday and it was quite marvellous. We spent the first night with Fiona (Leon's middle sister and her family), and the next four days hiking in Green Mountain.

with Geoff (Leon's oldest brother) and his family. We stayed in O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat which meant we got the best of both worlds - long hikes, and then nice dry accommodation at the end, and views, views, views.

The rainforest was amazing - ancient trees, interesting birds and numerous, stunning waterfalls. There were trees with tiny vines that reminded me of lace:

And giant vines that fed my ever-growing cable obsession:

We did a little guided walk which showed us the birds and taught us to identify them by their calls, but the birds were not shy and came and visited us on our balcony, and other places too!

There were so many beautiful waterfalls, river crossings and leaches - but lets not talk about the leaches...

I used a hiking pole for the first time, and found it very useful. I think I'll be buying some to take on our next outdoor adventure.

After four days of hiking we spent one more night on the Gold Coast, we headed to Brisbane, where we met up with Kris. We went to Brisbane GABS, caught up with Tony and Ingrid and I completely failed to take any photos at all!

We got home yesterday, and I finished the body of the Rainbow Cardi on the plane.

It was such a perfect project to have with me, simple and satisfying, and now I'm blocking it before I start the fun, multi-coloured fronts. When we booked the trip, we hadn't realised that today (Monday) in a public holiday, and today has felt like such a luxury, having a day at home to clean up and get organised.

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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...

What I made, by Sharon

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