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Pint of Origin and some charity knitting

This weekend was the beginning of Pint of Origin - a ten day beer festival that happens in different venues all around Melbourne. We went West on Friday and got to catch the new tunnel home from Footscray. We don't have much call to use that route, and it's pretty exciting to have new train stations. the free public transport is still a thrill, and we are getting very good value from it.

On Sunday we continued our beer adventures, going to six pubs Northside. Kris joined us, and we managed to get one, rather terrible photo with all of us!             

Late last week and over the weekend I finished a little charity jacket, which was super fun to knit and also used up some left over yarn. The back is striped, but right now I've only got this one terrible photo. (I'm sensing a theme!)  Once I get the back closure on I'll post photos of the back as well as the front on Ravelry: sharondoubleknit's French Macaroon (charity 12/26).  

I took the opportunity to cast on a baby hat to 'match'
                                                                                                                                                      Since I'm going to knit night tonight, and then more Pint of Origin on Tuesday (and maybe Wednesday) I'll have plenty of time to finish this and cast on my next project - which is a pair of socks that I don't want to start too early because we are away next weekend and I don't want to run out of sock before the end of the weekend. I've got some exciting sock experiments happening - more on that on Wednesday.                                                                                                                                                                               



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