3157 steps – more than
I expected when I flipped the phone open just now. The best day, indeed, since I embarked on this caper. C. came, and we got around the
garden twice. It was very cold – the setts on the less-used street rather
slippy – but sunny. The snowdrops and the daffodils stand up splendidly to the
cold, the daffys not yet blooming but with buds. They just stand there
patiently while the cold lasts, and then resume springtime. The hellebores, on
the other hand, are looking rather the worse for wear.
And I’ve done 6 ½ scallops
on the second side of Gudrun’s hap. I am beginning to toy with the idea of
blocking it myself. I’ll be fine crawling around on the floor – the difficulty
comes when I try to stand up again. But if I pick a morning when Daniela is
here…
Mary Lou, ah! yes –
you misunderstood me. That is precisely what I was thinking – the body and
sleeves of the Polliwog in a self stripe, and the yoke solid. The trouble is, I
don’t have a sock-weight solid, and when one starts looking for one, the
temptation arises to buy both.
And, yes, you did
indeed send me the overlap pullover which I’m sure I knit for some great-grandchild or great-nephew,
but I can’t remember which. I had forgotten that it is written for sock yarn. (That
one is in Mary Lou’s Ravelry store, and is well worth having a look at if you
want a baby sweater that can be put on easily; no small matter.) (The same is
true of the Polliwog.)
My sister sent me
a link to what may have been an interesting article in the Times about Bernie
Sanders’ mittens. I already knew that they had attracted some attention at the
Inauguration. But the Times says I’ve had enough freebies this month. Where can
I see them on social media?
Reading
I am lurching on
with “What To Look for in Winter”. Shandy and Jenny, many thanks indeed for the
pointers to Tomalin and to Worsley, on Jane Austen. I think I thought that
biography wasn’t of much use, since her sister Cassandra destroyed those
letters. (What a loss!) But you have inspired me to have a look.