Tea and Cakes

Sushi, anyone? While it’s not as delicious as the veggie sushi I was eating last week, it is made with my own fair hands. Do you think I need some nori maki too? It’ll mean a trip to buy more white.

Also in knitted picnic for the Electric Picnic news, I made a square for the picnic blanket:

Spot the problem? Yep, it’s not actually square. I think I forgot some decreases. That’s what comes from knitting anything with a pattern with a migraine. (It was mild, I carried on with my day anyway, I’m fed up of wasting time not doing anything when resting doesn’t actually get rid of the damn things. If I can get up and leave a dark room I will.)

Aside from the fact that it’s not actually square I was really pleased wih this - I loved the way the uneven stripes looked. So, it was with regret that I turned it into this:

For a little while it was the beginnings of another square, but it was looking wrong and curling really badly so it ended up back in the two balls again. I’ve put it away for the evening now and I’m hoping it’ll tell me what it wants to be very very soon as it needs to be in the post Tuesday at the very latest, and that’s using swiftpost. It might want to look like a mason-dixon ballband dishcloth, but it’s not being cast on until it’s made it’s mind up.

Earlier today, in a fit of wanting knitting that I had to think about, I cast on for Branching Out again. This ended in tears the last time, but I’m not letting a pattern beat me, so out it came again.

After I went wrong on the third pattern row and had to rip back I decided it would be wise to start using lifelines, which is why there’s blue cotton and sandy cotton in the mix. I’m assuming that this will look better once it’s washed and blocked (and finished of course). I’m taking my time and only working on this when I’m feeling awake. I have the pattern for the fibertrends Lace Leaf shawl, but I want to see how I get on with this before I start on that.

All in all, a productive weekend’s knitting. Aside from all the ripping out.