Really, after the kerffuflle with the International Olymp1c Committee (don’t want to denigrate the word, here) I’d considered not watching the bloody things at all. But the boys wanted to and we were bound for the beach which means lazy evenings so… yeah. I cast on.

I’m knitting a marvelous little shrug (Layering Shrug by Juju Vail) with Team Sasquatch. Mine seems to be all fococked with gauge, but the pattern is pretty clear on that point so I hope I’m good. Maybe it’s just one of those “when you see it done…” things.

Then because I’m insane. Or at least very very bad at understanding how time works, I’m also knitting for Team Cooperative Press. This one is a shawl pattern that I’ve been designing for the Defarge Does Sherlock book. I’m nearly done with my Defarge Does Shakespeare Shrug (ah, I sense a shruggy theme) though I’ve got a null set for Defarge Does Chaucer.

I’ve officially cast on both for the Ravellenic Games and am making my slow, meandering way through them. I’d post pix here but it’s late, to be honest. The pictures would be flash-bleached, anyway. Tomorrow I’ll show you more (though I can’t show you much of the Sherlock, obviously. You’ll just have to accept my word on it’s progress and let it go at that).

I will tell you this: I began with Nannette the Nanny’s Garter Tab (it was in a previous newsletter–you can sign up on the left) and have maintained her recommended edging throughout.

And now?

Now I sleep because tomorrow will be a day of knitting, swimming at the beach, and not much else.