Knitting

I have been doing as much finishing off as knitting projects this week.  I have some yarn to knit a cardigan for my eldest which I have really wanted to cast on this week but I have been disciplined, I have three projects that have been off the needles for some time that needed attention.  They have been languishing in a drawer for a few weeks so I set to and have been weaving in ends, blocking and sewing up.  I hope to be able to show you these in the next few days once I have sewn the buttons on my Antler Cardigan, sewn a lining in this hat and knitted some button bands and sewn the buttons on this cable jumper for my youngest.  The pattern did not call for button bands but there is a big gap on the jumper between the button hole band and the raglan edge of the sleeve, the jumper fits everywhere else so I guess my youngest is bigger in the shoulder area than the pattern.  I am hoping that creating a button band on each side will get rid of the gap, if it doesn't not sure what I will do then!

I finished reading Free to Learn and have returned to the The Elephant Keepers' Children this week luckily this is a book that you can dip in and out of and still keep up with what is going on, as like my knitting, it has been rather neglected of late.  It is an odd and surprisingly enjoyable read with some wonderfully named characters.

Joining in with Ginny for Yarn Along a sharing of knitting and reading.