The Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief

It's a quiet, rainy day here today. Right now there's a late loaf of bread in the oven. There's a sky full of grey clouds and a coffee table covered in lego. (And an untimely clothesline full of dripping wet clothes.) There's paper pots waiting on the table, with soil and seeds at the ready. There's three giveaways in the works for next month. There's two napping children. And there is also one finished project, cast off last night. 

My first knitted kerchief, 'The Age of Brass and Steam.' It is a fairly simple and quick pattern, as long as you follow the photo tutorial for the garter tab beginning - a technique that was new to me. It has been completed in moments grabbed here and there the past five days. The Madelinetosh yarn has been especially lovely to work with and is soft and warm against the skin. I am a convert for sure.

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Raverly.

Yarn Along

The permission that breastfeeding grants you to just stop, sit down and feed, has gone a fair way towards granting me reading time lately. Though at other times my breastfeeding multi-tasking has included making puzzles, finishing a row of knitting, buttering toast or dressing a toddler. When you throw in a fair bit of baby gazing, I'm surprised I get any reading done at all. And yet I have. Since last week I have finished this book and I'm half way through this one. I'm feeling inspired and positive about my future knitting plans, as well as my intention to return to the jewellery bench soon.

My first Madelinetosh yarn arrived yesterday and I have been enjoying looking at it and touching it, as one does with new yarn. I have however made myself a promise to finish the hot water bottle cozy, Emerson's blanket and Emerson's raglan sweater before making a start with this wool, lest I add to the unfinished pile...
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Joining in with Ginny's Yarn Along.