A little knitting thanks to a weekend off and half-term

I have been uber busy these last days weeks years, okay, my life here is pretty much out of control, but I only have to not die for a week and a half longer before I get to BLOW THIS JOINT and head home for the relaxing business of helping with and being in a family wedding. I almost have my report cards finished (as much as possible), I started packing and will continue to do so for the massive endorphin rush it gives me as well as the fact that it needs to get done. Moving overseas in stages while working full-tilt would not be my choice again…

I finished the Beloved bonnet for a friend who is expecting this fall and have started some booties to use up the last of the yarn. I enjoyed this pattern; it was written for DK, but I just made a bigger size with fingering as that is what I had in baby appropriate yarn. I don’t see making the adult size, but it was a fun baby knit.

I’ve also been working on the Barristan Beanie with the reclaimed Gloss Fingering from a shawl I frogged. I like the cable, but I really dislike not having a chart to work from. I find reading the directions fiddly (i.e. bad TV knitting), and I don’t like not having a clue what the pattern is supposed to look like. I might keep this for myself to use when I hopefully visit my family in Germany in December, of it might end up a gift. Either way, it’s fun to be cabling again!

And that's pretty much my knitting. I need to get a sock toe finished and the second sock cast on to be ready for Sports day on Saturday, but other than that my main project is PACKING because I only have 3 MORE MONTHS AND A WEEK OR SO in Zambia total, so there is a lot of keep sorting through. Burning things continues to be cathartic, as is the knowledge that I can leave a lot more behind easily than I had once thought. Onwards and upwards I must press, yes, yes!