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A soft and spacious wrap with green and grey triangles. That's what I was going for with my sister's birthday present. I made her a Vertices Unite shawl – the design is by Stephen West. It's one of my favourite designs – I'm tentatively thinking about casting on a third one day soon.

My sister looks beautiful in her new shawl – you can see a photo of her with it on my Ravelry page. And all the other details about the yarns I used, etc are over there too.

You can also see above the little set I recently made for my new nephew. It was such a lovely project to work on while we waited for news of his arrival. The socks are from this pattern (and made using scraps left over from some I knitted Arlo – his very big cousin!) and I found the garter stitch cross-over cardigan pattern here. It's free and very simple to knit up in a DK yarn. I adapted it a little to close with wooden buttons instead of ties. 

And the hat is another baby bear bonnet (like these ones) to match some I made for his cousins.

In the last photo you can see what I've been working on most recently – a jumper from some tweedy pink yarn and mohair held together. It's now finished and being worn! I'll take photos for my next blog post.

A new song I've fallen in love with lately: Spells by Norwegian artist Jenny Hval. I'm not sure I quite understand what's happening in the video though – I first discovered the music through my headphones. I think the first lyrics are: You are your own disco ball hovering above you like / a comforting reminder that not even you belong to you…

I hope this finds you well, dear reader. Thank you as always for visiting me here from wherever you are in the world.

X M