It has turned a bit cold. Nothing is more comforting than my ratty old semi-brioche in a Madtosh yarn. Maybe that pattern we saw at Brooklyn Tweed the other day – not called “Stirling” – should have a serious place on the to-do list.

 

Helen is safely back from Madrid where she enjoyed herself, although she says that nourishment is a bit difficult for a vegetarian. We got around the garden this morning. And I knit remorselessly on, finished another two repeats. So that’s eight done, of eleven. Even allowing for a twelfth near-repeat, and an i-cord bind-off, I might finish Clue One this weekend. I was much encouraged, browsing the Ravelry user-group, to meet someone who professed herself a veteran of Stephen West MCAL’s and who said that this was going to be the first time she had ever failed to finish a clue before the next one arrived.

 

A few are considering giving up. I think they have been persuaded to suspend judgment until they have seen the next clue.

 

Are any of you doing it? I find that in the dread cast-on row it works better if you do the first 11 stitches with the cable cast-on, as instructed, but for the 12^th stitch, knit into the 11^th (instead of inserting the needle between the 10^th and 11^th). That makes the 12^th stitch much easier to get hold of on the return journey, when it has of course become the first.  Stephen himself had a bit of trouble with that in the demonstration video.

 

Here’s where I am. I’ll do some more braiding for you for tomorrow’s pic.

 

Wordle: Theo and Alexander and Daughter-Rachel and I scored three; Ketki four; Thomas six. No other competitors. My starter words gave me a brown and a green and I persevered until I thought of a word that fully qualified, and it was the answer. That often works.