Some progress made

Nominally a Bank Holiday today, and should also be the first day of our May holiday in France. With Lockdown, this isn't happening. This is the Oddball Sweater, or as I prefer to call it, Bea's jumper, because it was Bea who first told me about it. I made Walnut'n'Wensleydale a few years ago (All the dyes from walnut leaves or husks). Cast on 80 sts or thereabouts, knit circularly, double increases every quarter, split after yoke. I am trying to use up all the remaining handspun, home dyed yarn in the attic, starting with reds at the top and progressing through the rainbow. Although no blues and purples left as they all sold. Some of the labels go back 17 years! Should be tried on around before the split to make sure is is deep enough. I put it onto threads about four inches after the split, and found it was long enough in front and back to start squaring off. With the poor indoor light, this looks awfully like the pink poncho of the previous post!

Pack a Poncho

Poncho finished after almost two years. After the neck shaping it was quite boring knitting! But it has removed another unfinished object from my pile. What shall I pick up next? The natural dyed top-down jumper, the crochet curtain, the smock? Oh, and there is still a log cabin mitt. I don't count the fourth diamonds blanket, or the CSM handwarmrs. And I did just spot this morning a bagful of an intended wool/silk hand spun jumper, of which there are various lumps in different stages of unspun,spun, undyed, dyed....