Your Tuesday pictures.

Here’s the Dathan, showing a bit of bind off. I have made progress since then, and have passed the half-way point. I remain confident that Jamieson’s will have the new yarn here by the time I am ready for it. There are a lot of ends to deal with when the bind off is finished.

And then – do I block it, just to smooth it down? Did I do that last time? Obviously it won’t need to be cajoled into a particular shape.

And here’s your Tuesday avocado picture, looking a bit more hopeful. I have turned the whole plant around, wondering whether it would make the effort of leaning back towards the light:

Downloading and printing the Cameron Shawl pattern presented no problems at all. I have studied it fairly thoroughly and am ready to go, although wondering whether I shouldn’t just start the Spring Shawl again.

Non-knit

Thank you for your help with my jigsaw question. “Springbok” sounds right, but their current website doesn’t look as much fun as puzzles used to be. Ravensberger is a bit better, and they seem to be big in the UK. What I can’t know until I try is how to get solid, satisfying American pieces, short of paying big money for wood. And, Shandy, who supplied your Magi?

Tamar, I used to do jigsaw puzzles on-line, but I don’t think it would work for a 1000-piece-er and there’s a certain satisfaction in fitting a piece in manually. A where-things-are file is a brilliant idea. It doesn’t cover the situation where things have been tidied away by the cleaning woman – but that couldn’t have happened to my knitting.

Politics: In my anxious opinion, the Democrats are still a long way from producing a candidate with a real chance of beating Trump. And now they can’t even tell us what happened in the Iowa caucus. What was that about not being able to organise a piss-up in a brewery?