Having been cheated of my day off on Monday, I spent yesterday catching up on lots of little tasks, chores and such. I finished my Aussie Bag Lady Swap bag, but in order to do so I had to drop into Lindcraft for a bit of cotton tape. While I was there I bought a few packs of beads for the Droplet Scarf:

Clear ones and green ones, with faceting so they’ll add a hint of glitter. Preeeetty. I managed to match the green from memory, surprisingly well.

Then, in the afternoon, a parcel arrived for me containing these:

KA Japanese bamboo circs, from The Wool Baa. There were also dpns, but they were put to use last night knitting up the armhole bands of the Mitre Vest and couldn’t make it to the photo shoot.

These circs are fabulous! The join is smooth and doesn’t catch the yarn. The bamboo is smooth and the whole thing has a feeling of quality manufacture. But the really cool thing is that the wire rotates within the join. Any twist you might unconsciously put in as you’re knitting is eliminated straight away. All they need is a wire with no spring or memory (a gripe of mine with circs) and I’d be looking to buy a range of them in small sizes.

I bought a 2.75mm one for the Mitre Vest. (Though I did manage to finish the hem band on the straights by only knitting two rows at a time, I was on the neck band when the circs arrived and once I’d changed needles it was so much less painful to knit.) I also bought a 2.25mm 80cm one to try out knitting socks with the magic loop method. I’ll let you know how that goes.

The Mitre Vest is a few rows and some buttons short of being finished, so I will soon have a FO to post about. So, er, stay posted.