Is This Summer?

I almost think my island home has skipped spring in favor of a summer. Yesterday and today it's suddenly topped 20°C with bright sunshine. No complaints from me! I'm still a prairie girl at heart; give me all the sunshine!!

I'm happy to say the Hornpipe Bag pattern is in the midst of tech-editing. I'm making some fixes here and there to clean it up before returning it to my tech-editor. And to go with my wordy explanations in a couple of specific areas, I'll be getting photo tutorials ready as well. I'll be including these in the pattern but also putting them up here on the blog (with listings in my Helpful Post tab for quick reference).

A helpful knitter has reached out to me with some hiccups in my oldest pattern, Anchors & Ropes. If you've been following along over the years, this pattern was originally popped up on the Síle's Knittin' & Kittens blog back in December 2009(!) and didn't even have a chart. Rustic would be the nice word for it lol. I added a chart in 2015 or so and then revamped the entire thing with a new chart and new written instructions.

Well, I've got a couple of goofs in the translation from the latest chart to the newest written instructions that I need to fix up. I've also discovered that some of my written explanations for stitches, while familiar to a lot of North American knitters, and quite a few in the UK and Ireland, aren't as familiar with our cousins in other parts of Europe. I'll be adding two photo tutorials to the blog, with links in the fixed up Anchors & Ropes, to show these couple of trickier spots in a bit better way. 

And speaking of designs, I've finished the hood for Countess Cathleen and moved onto the cloak's body :) I'm so pleased with how it's shaping up! The moss stitch has such a nice rhythm to its knitting; very intuitive with the shaping, I find at least. I hope others will think so too! Here's the photo I nabbed as I got the transition between hood and body finished Monday night:

That's everything for today! Lots going on behind the scenes this week, and you'll be seeing the results soon :)

Yours in yarn and summery temperatures (for now),

Síle