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First project of the month, the cardigan I started in January! It is precisely what I wanted it to be, and I'm very pleased to have finished it. I used Hannah Fettig's Brise cardigan pattern (Rav link), but lengthened the body and the sleeves to make it more like the one I was replacing. I got to work on part of this sitting outdoors at a coffee shop with another knitter, which was really really nice. I miss social knitting.


Semi social was an interlude to make a Perun Cowl (that link goes to Shannon's site). I made one several years ago, but there's currently an online knit along happening for this so I joined in. This color reminded me of the glow sticks my childhood roller skating rink would give out as prizes for Red Light Green Light and made me very happy. This is such a great versatile piece, I don't mind having more than one!


A thing that was made but not by me was a new deck. My partner took a couple weeks off work (ended up being during a round of storms and a heat wave, whoops) to tear down our old deck (which had a large and awkwardly located hole in it) and then build a new one. We let the kids draw pictures on it before he put the boards down, and then had a birthday party on top of it once it was finished. It is probably going to be the backdrop of a lot of pictures...



...like this. For all the samples I knit last month I got enough yarn to make a Sheep Camp Sweater (link goes to Rav) and also may have gotten a project bag to put it in, happy birthday to me. I'm really pleased with the colors I put together, and the pattern was great. Well written and the color work was so fun I was sad when I got to the end of the chart.

I don't actually have anything else on the needles right now, or lined up to do next. I do have a lot of reading planned for July, but I'm sure there will knitting in there somewhere, too!
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