I’ve been busy this week. Rather busy indeed.

I have very nearly finished my Zora cardigan. Finally, after nearly a year and a half since starting it, it’s all sewn up. All that’s left to do is sew in yet more ends, and block it. Yay! It’s nice to finally have this done.

I’ve also finished my Irate Squirrel socks. They’re a little smaller than my usual socks but they actually fit better so I might do future socks like this.

My new yarn arrived from Solstice Yarns. It’s Tidal Sock Yarn. The purple was chosen by Nick for a pair of socks that I promised him as a late Christmas present, and the gold/brown colours I couldn’t resist buying for myself. No idea what to do with it yet, but the colours were so pretty I had to get it.

Next on my list, is to finish my Thermal, and also get Nick’s socks started. I also want to do some sewing this week but I won’t talk about that much until it’s done!

Work in Progress Wednesdays at Tami’s Amis

As anticipated, I managed to finish my Demalangeni Shawl. It’s washed, blocked and I wore it yesterday. It’s lovely and soft and warm and I love how it turned out. It’s made with Araucania Ranco.

The socks I showed you last week for the Flora KAL on Ravelry actually got frogged. Again. I then started to think outside the box, and found the perfect pattern. I’m now almost finished on the first sock. The theme was that the pattern name or yarn name had to link somehow to dogwood, silver birch or witch hazel. I chose silver birch, for an amusing reason.

My mum told me an amusing story one day when I visited. My parents have a silver birch in their garden which is used to feed the birds. Their cat, Matt is quite content to watch the birds and not bother them. He does however have a strong hatred of squirrels. One morning, a visiting squirrel decided to try and steal some of the bird food. Matt spotted the squirrel and sat himself at the bottom of the tree. There are no other trees around that the squirrel could have escaped into, so it was stuck. If it came down, Matt was eagerly waiting for it. As the squirrel grew in confidence, it would edge down the tree to try and steal some food. Matt didn’t like this, and so made appropriate moves and noises to suggest to the squirrel that this was a very bad idea, and it should stay as far up the tree as possible. This continued until dusk, when Matt finally grew bored (or probably hungry) and decided to head inside and finally allow the squirrel to escape. No squirrels have been seen in the garden since. Here is Matt.

This little story is why I chose the pattern Irate Squirrel for my January Flora Knit-a-long socks. Here is my progress. As usual, I’m using King Cole Zig Zag (I have a huge stash of it) in a conveniently squirrelly grey.

This week, inspired by my knitting group, I’ve finally picked up my Zora cardigan to try and finally finish it. So far I’ve done some seaming, but don’t really have anything to show. I’ve pretty much finished the knitting apart from the collar and front band, so it really shouldn’t take me too long now I’ve finally gotten around to it!

Work in Progress Wednesdays at Tami’s Amis