I wore Violet Femme most of yesterday. It seemed to relax even more, but that wasn’t too bad because having a body to relax around meant it draped in vaguely flattering ways.

Unfortunately, it makes me itch. Not entirely unexpected since it contains ‘lambswool’ and I’m sensitive to wool. I’ll be doing my usual wearing a polo neck underneath thing from now on.

I really like the pattern, now that I’ve done the math to make it a top-down knit. I’m thinking of knitting it again in 100% wool with a plainer collar knit from handspun. But first there’s the Sunrise Circle Jacket to knit. I’ve done lots of math to adapt it to 12ply yarn, but there are parts where I’m going to have to just wing it.

I’m in a sort of transitional period, really. Finishing old projects and starting new ones. Or not so new. The Scrappy Socks are rocking along so fast you can hardly call them ‘new’ any more:

They’re a fast knit, there being only 52 stitches of plain stocking stitch each round. I started the second sock last night. Can’t believe I got up past the heel in one sitting. I suspect there was a little pent up knitting frustration coming out after being too sick to knit for a few days. My hands were a little stiff this morning, though.

Last Monday there was a visitor in our front garden:

A blue-tongue. He was about 30cm long. When we got back home a few hour later he had scurried off somewhere. Somewhere safe from cats and dogs, I hope.