Don't buy 400g balls of yarn...

Progress on my Lykke jumper by Rachel Sogaard which is definitely an 'at home' project now. And a reminder to myself, 400g balls of yarn are hard to manage! (Though I suppose if I got a device & ran them into smaller yarn cakes, that might work?) I bought the yarn in lockdown, 3 balls of each colour as I'd seen Jo from Three Stories High planning a cable jumper & loved it, so got lots of aran yarn. Hobby craft having played a cunning trick that I fell for - for the jumper, I was going to need 3 x 400g balls of yarn, and it was buy 2, get 1 free... But paying for 2 balls of yarn was under the free postage, so if I paid for 4 balls of yarn I could have free postage (and after all, that was hardly any more than paying for the 3 balls that I'd planned to buy) so it just made sense to get 6 balls of yarn and then I could make 2 jumpers! And I do need more jumpers.

And once I'd got the yarn, I carried on reading Jo's blog and found she was finding the cables tricky. And I pulled out a WIP from my bag, with cables and remembered I'd been struggling with that. (It's not that I can't do cables, it's that when you've got a pattern with lots going on and lots of changes each row, and distractions in the background - I get distracted & get it wrong.). So I pushed the yarn away, & finished off a cardigan I'd been working on a while ago. And browsed Ravelry for different patterns.

As you can see, the current progress on the jumper means it won't fit properly in my knitting bag.  But I am getting on with it, so soon I'll have another jumper, which is jolly handy as it's getting colder now. 

It's lovely and sunny today, and I'm sitting at home waiting for 1 or 2 parcels that Elder Son is having delivered today. Can't even get on in the garden. Hey ho, it must be knitting time. 

Younger Son came out in a dog walk yesterday and we took the dog to the big park with the dog exercise areas (formerly tennis courts) 
Dog loves running round in there, but last time, he'd cut one of his dew claw pads, so we made sure not to stay there too long. Plus it was raining! 

To warm up after the rain, I made lentil soup with jalapeño & (vegan) cheese cobbles. Cobbles being scone mix but blobbed onto the baking sheet so they look like rock cakes. 

Lovely and warming! 

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