I don't know why text has turned blue. I don't like it.

This was perhaps a slightly better day. Did I feel stronger? I think I have knit a full five rows of the baby shawl borders, with perhaps another to come. I am currently doing a row of roundels, and it’s actually easy to see how each knitted row fits into the roundel below, once they have been correctly established. Which was pretty easy in itself.

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Thank you, as ever, for your help – starting with Katherine’s answer (comment yesterday) to my question of why Google illustrated Burns’ birthday with Virginia Woolf. I disapprove, much as I admire her work. She’s far too gloomy a character to celebrate in these dark days. Lots of birthdays must overlap, obviously.

Liz, once you’d said it, I remembered that I have heard of the idea of doing corrugated rib in two passes, and I am very glad indeed to have your confirmation, Ron, that it works. I will (try to) remember what you say about needle size. The idea of the double pass is familiar to me from my recent experience with two-colour brioche.

But I also note what you say, Maureen, about doing it in one, and holding the purl colour in my right hand. It’s obvious, once you say it, but I doubt if I would have thought of it. Like you, I don’t care for continental purling.

I am encouraged by your remark, Shandy, that changing lozenge patterns within a Fair Isle row is nothing compared to knitting the Uncia. But I still don’t want to do it. I find Fair Isle peaceful and meditative – having constantly to check on the lozenge patterns would spoil it.

Here’s the promised picture of my swatch scarf:

Except for that band in the middle with the unnaturally pale background, I could use all of this in the vest. If I am to believe memory (Jean, when will you learn to make notes?) the final rows are the ones I had decided to use, and they contain no red. Doing it like this, with red showing up from time to time, in different positions, I think will be rather effective.

Now all we need is the Calcutta Cup. The match is on February 24.