Very Brief Update I'm afraid I've been away for a little while. We have been having some big building work done, so we went away for the Easter holidays, so the builders could get it done without our resident children playing with the tile cutter.

And of course we've come back to a terrifying mess, a kitchen I don't understand yet, and all the rest of what you'd expect.

I did manage to finish that baby sweater, and it came out fine, but I ended up making up a new sleeve-joining technique. Well, I'm sure someone else has done it before, but it was new to me. Then I gave the sweater away to expecting friends, while I was away. I did ask for photos of it, but they might wait until the baby comes.

And I started, and nearly finished, a sweater for my youngest child. Without a pattern, from scratch. And it's going pretty well, except I'm not working on it now, as I'm too busy sorting out this house.

My next project will be a tie, using tubular knitting. It seems like an obvious idea to try, but I'm a bit worried it will be too thick. (I'm working with 4ply.)

Maybe a tie should be single thickness, but with a small needle size, for the wool? Maybe a tie should just be normal knitting? (I made a tie for my father in law, last Christmas, using circular knitting, and two very different yarns. It came out ok, but not great.)  ¶ 7:16 AM