A long day - I was on a train at 6:20am, after being up until midnight the night before, and didn't get to bed until after midnight again...
A good knitting day, though - I made good progress on the old project on the way north, so that I now have two mittens, although no thumbs yet! This was the experimental start, a week ago - the hands are plain black, and I went for the version with the purple in between the two brighter colours.
The new project is a kind of small shawl/wrap thing, where every line is longer than the one before as it gets wider - I thought I was going to have to do Complicated Sums to work out how far I'd got, but turns out that the pattern helpfully tells you when you're at 5%, 10% and so on.
So it grew through the rest of the journey - I was going on up to Perth for a big dancing event - and in the garden at Scone at lunchtime, and even a bit while I was sitting out from the social dancing in the evening! I was at 10% by the end of the day, which was far better progress than I'd hoped - I want to get on with this plain bit as quickly as possible, though, as the second half of the pattern is lacy edges, which will take more time and concentration...
Words took a definite back seat - I eventually scribbled the statutory 100 just before midnight again, at the end of the dance! More odds and ends on a different belated post, but my hope is that if I can just get started I will eventually get finished.
Collingwood’s dispatch is arguably the start of the continuing Nelson legend - beginning not with an account of the battle, but with the words 'the ever to be lamented death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson'.
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on 2019-11-03 09:37 pm (UTC)A good knitting day, though - I made good progress on the old project on the way north, so that I now have two mittens, although no thumbs yet! This was the experimental start, a week ago - the hands are plain black, and I went for the version with the purple in between the two brighter colours.
The new project is a kind of small shawl/wrap thing, where every line is longer than the one before as it gets wider - I thought I was going to have to do Complicated Sums to work out how far I'd got, but turns out that the pattern helpfully tells you when you're at 5%, 10% and so on.
So it grew through the rest of the journey - I was going on up to Perth for a big dancing event - and in the garden at Scone at lunchtime, and even a bit while I was sitting out from the social dancing in the evening! I was at 10% by the end of the day, which was far better progress than I'd hoped - I want to get on with this plain bit as quickly as possible, though, as the second half of the pattern is lacy edges, which will take more time and concentration...
Words took a definite back seat - I eventually scribbled the statutory 100 just before midnight again, at the end of the dance!
More odds and ends on a different belated post, but my hope is that if I can just get started I will eventually get finished.
Collingwood’s dispatch is arguably the start of the continuing Nelson legend - beginning not with an account of the battle, but with the words 'the ever to be lamented death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson'.