No catchy title here

I’m back from my trip long ago. One thing that never made it back after behaving weirdly for a long time though is my camera, which finally died on me and has now been replaced with a new one. I’m sticking to the Canon Ixus series, being very happy with them. And also was I amazed to see how much more I got for less than half the price of my last camera…

I have been knitting though, and lots of it too. I’m really glad I brought some emergency sock yarn for my flight. When you find yourself in a squeeze between a business man and a mother with a very sweet and well-behaving but wiggly nonetheless baby, that does not allow for anything but small pieces of one-strand stockinette. One sock completed.

I haven’t started the other one yet, cause the Central Park Hoodie turned out to be such a breeeze in the knitting department that it substituted all my TV stockinette needs. The pieces are now blocking, the measurements look right on spot and I can’t find anything that I have managed to screw up yet. I’ve added some waist shaping and will graft the shoulders instead of binding off before the seaming, but no major modifications. Just waiting for the thing to dry.

Can I just say how much I love my measure tape for having centimetres on one side and inches on the other? So helpful when knitting non-metric patterns. I also found a needle measure thingy with both metric, US and a third measure that I have yet not encountered in patterns on it, it saves me from looking up the conversions online every time I look on a foreign pattern. And saves lots of frogging too.

The hardest part of the CPH so far has been deciding on a closure. Initially I thought of a two-way zipper but I think I’ll go with buttons. I have an image in my head of what kind of buttons I want, but a long and intense button-search with a fellow knitter yesterday did not yield any results, although the very helpful owner of a LYS in town offered to order in a selection of the sizes and shapes I had in mind so I’ll go back there in a while. I couldn’t resist these babies though. The button stash is growing. Don’t see anything wrong with that.

The obligatory weather report..if you think I’m crazy knitting a thick woolen jacket in the end of April I can assure you that the winter is not over yet, it has been snowing like crazy for a week and I’m a bit worried about the brave tulip buds I saw poking up a few days ago. But not so worried about not getting to wear the woolen jacket.