yarn along: november 2019

When I pulled out the autumnal garland last month, I realized that I had only three more leaves to knit to complete it.  Why did I set it aside last year, thinking that there was so much left to knit?  A night of knitting, and a quick order of some hemp string, and voila!  It's now hanging on our mantelpiece.  I'm not sold on the bias tape as the base of the garland, but I can change that if something better presents itself.

I've made headway on Little M's Carl's Cardigan; I have a few more rows of the yoke, and then on to buttonbands and sleeves.  There's a very real possibility that I will run out of yarn, so the I'll do the sleeves last, dividing all of the yarn remaining from the body into two equal amounts.  Fingers crossed!

More behind-the-scenes sock yarn blanket knitting is happening, too.  I wrote a little about it in my last post.

I'm still reading all of the books from my last Yarn Along post, and two more titles have mysteriously joined the stack.  A clergy wives' book club I'm in has chosen this for our new book.  I'm about halfway through the introduction.  And I'm rereading The Way of Boys.  I got about halfway through before loaning it to an acquaintance, whose sons are the same age as my little guys.  The reminders about the range of normal in boy behavior have been timely!