Rain this morning. Alexander came. We didn’t attempt to walk. It has now been quite a while since I did it. Helen and David both will be here tomorrow and we must try again.

 

However it was been a good day on the knitting front. I have done 8 sleeve increases, every sixth round: there are five to go, I think. And then another 4 ½” or so of straight sleeve. So things are moving forward.

 

Sometimes I knit and read (both slowly). Sometimes I let the iPad read Il Gattopardo aloud to me. And sometimes I wander around Youtube looking for something that might serve as a background to knitting. (“Sit and Knit for a Bit with Arne and Carlos” is the right general idea, but too often lately it is not about knitting at all.) However, today while so engaged I stumbled upon Stephen West showing us around his LYS in Amsterdam. Wow! I have never seen so much yarn offered for retail sale. It is enough to make me want to devote myself henceforth to shawl knitting. I hope this link works.  They also sell on-line.

 

I did one of those on-line classes with him once. He is very entertaining, needless to say.