Yesterday I washed the swatch for the Squares Jacket, and just before I set off for craft night I measured it again. It had grown a few cm. So at craft night last night I frogged the band and started again using the smallest size.

During the day I worked out the colour placement:

Next I’m going to knit a square separately, then frog it and use the yarn to measure out an extra ball whenever I have more squares of a colour to knit in a row than I have balls of yarn in that colour.

Also at craft night, Lynne pressed this into my unresisting hands:

Sock wool she has cleverly dyed into stripes of solid and varigated colour, plus a ball of straight varigated, I think. It’s gorgeous! This in exchange for the Wendy Knit’s book with the upside down pages – but I figure I better wait to hand it over until the replacement book arrives just in case Amazon suddenly decide they want the old one back or proof that it is flawed.

And now some photos of mushrooms. Yes, funghi.

I haven’t been out in the cat run since we had to dismantle part of it so the plumber could install new drainage for us. (Typical tradesman, he hasn’t shown up yet and the cat has been steadily going crazy as the weeks of being locked in the house go by.) Even when it isn’t a mess of puddles and mud out there, it’s too depressing to look at. So when I did glance outside the other day I was surprised to see masses of little mushrooms all over the retaining wall.

The caps are about the size of the thumbnail of my little finger. They’re so cute!