I’m home. We had an interesting two and a bit weeks. I got lots of work done. But we also did a bit of sight-seeing and yarn shopping. It doesn’t feel 100% like a holiday, but not 100% work either.

Here’s some more stuff I picked up along the way:

A macrame book and two knitting magazines. Except the Filati one is more a book of patterns. There’s one in it that I thought would work for the Shadow Tweed. But the pattern only comes in one size. Yes, that’s right. One size. It’s a wrap jacket so it probably doesn’t have to have precision fitting, but we all know how well ‘one size fits all’ really works. The Knitting magazine was quite good. I’ve not liked the patterns or the look of the mag in the past, but both have improved in this issue.

A skull washcloth. This was a surprise gift from a knitter I don’t know via a friend at the retreat. I love it. Too nice to wash dishes with.

The yarn I bought at The Ardent Alpaca, which I forgot to take a pic of. It’s so lushy and soft and yummy. I’m planning to make a drapey sideways vest out of it. Well, at least that’s what I used as justification for buying it when I was in the shop.

From an antiques store in Yarra Glen, a head and a hand. The head is for modelling hats so I don’t have to struggle with taking pics of my own head. The hand… well, I couldn’t not buy it could I? It will probably become a prop in a still life painting or a drawer/door handle, or something.

Now that I’m home… gosh this house is a mess! It’s not just a hangover from the holiday season – creating mess and making you too busy to clean – but all the temporary, necessary stuff piled up or positioned in strange places while the extension/reno/landscaping was happening these last two years, compounded by the fact we were already slowly combining two households into one before we started.

We have soooo much to do. It makes me want to write a big long list, prioritise everything, then ignore it all and knit.