The Andean Chullo Hat is done. I have enough yarn left over to make several more, but maybe I'll do something else with it. Maybe a vest. (I can't believe those nine balls of Palette have been all around Oregon and out to the Midwest and back twice!)
I knew it was going to be big, even with having the correct gauge, because I have a small head, so I left off one of the motif rounds above the row of llamas and more the decreases.
I worked the applied I-cord from the inside, rather than from the outside, having seen that recommendation in a YouTube video on applied I-cord. The presenter thought it looked better from the outside that way, and I agree.
With that done, I decided it was a good time to lengthen the sleeves of my Oregon Autumn Cardigan. I didn't want to reknit the sleeve border, so I planned to remove the solid-colored round right above the border (stitches all knit with the same yarn being easier to remove). I picked up the stitches at the top of the border with some thin cotton yarn and a yarn needle. Then I did the same with the round above the solid-color round. Once those stitches were stabilized, I removed the yarn from the solid round. I then had this:
After finding my place in the pattern graph, I picked up the live stitches from the upper section and transferred them, one by one, from the cotton yarn to two circular needles the size I used to knit the sweater, checking the pattern as I went and putting stitch markers between the pattern repeats. I found I was missing one stitch in one of the sections. The pattern helped me find where it was missing. I had to get under my Ott Lite to see the dropped stitch, but it was easily fixed. Then I knit more rounds. Here's where I am now. The green stitch marker is fastened in the round where I had started the border. When I'm happy with the length, I'll graft the two sections back together.
I need to get it done. I have a busy week ahead, with my first cataract surgery and the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Knit Along.
We finished off the sourdough bread. Daughter-in-law Alexa gave us several jars of jam when we were visiting. I had some of the fig jam on some sourdough toast with a soft-boiled egg. Yum!
We walked every day this week, mostly along the Larkspur Trail, sometimes giving the pups a little off-leash time in the wooded area adjacent to the trail. The snow is gone now, but early in the week, it still coated the ground. It was icy in some places, so we had to be careful.
Sunday was Sandy's third birthday. I had decided to bake him a carob brownie cake, because carob is OK for dogs and tastes like chocolate. We made a little party of it. Dusty doesn't look thrilled, but then, it wasn't his birthday, was it?
In light of the killings of people by ICE agents in California and Minnesota, another protest was planned for Saturday. It was icy cold and breezy, but more than 1,000 people showed up at Peace Corner and lined the street in both directions.
The local churches had organized a vigil Sunday evening at the pavilion at Drake Park. I went without the dogs. (Charlie was watching a football game.) I didn't have a candle that would be appropriate to take, so I pulled up the candle app on my phone (see under "Tip of the Week," below). We sang, we prayed. It was worthwhile. I was surprised to see so many people show up in the cold and dark. There must have been hundreds.
My 50 Miles for ALS effort is coming along. As of Sunday night, I had racked up nearly 24 miles, getting close to half of what I need, with still much of the month left. However, I will probably be unable to walk as much after I have my cataract surgery on Thursday, so I'm trying to get a little ahead.
The ophthalmologist is planning to make my left eye able to read close up and the right eye suitable for distance. He called that "monovision." To see if I really was going to be able to adapt to that, he gave me a soft contact lens for distance to wear in the right eye for a couple of days. It was different, but I didn't have any trouble with it and was already starting to get used to it. I learned that I had been using my right eye for reading as well as my left, but with the contact lens, I had to rely only on my left eye. I had to move reading material closer, and then it was easier to read. I have astigmatism in that eye besides the cataracts, so the surgery should make it much easier to read, and I won't need to hold something so close to my face. That's the plan, anyway. I should have something to report next week.
A new challenge hit me on Saturday. My left hearing aid wouldn't start. It had done this before, while still under warranty, and they replaced it free of charge. I'm reluctant to replace it again, because I will have to pay for it, and my old hearing aids seem to work better. I'm exploring my options now.
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What's in The Doll's Storybook: Emil is just finishing writing a letter to his friend Holly, when Pippa arrives, interested in what he's doing. He reads her his letter, which is full of events from his life, and that leads to a discussion about diversity and how we're all different. Here's Pen Pals.
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