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Moderately cool. Hat & gloves optional; the smaller patches of ice melting.

The brioche neck-warmer is a total failure. Too big, too stiff vertically, too limp horizontally, too many loose fibers (like putting a longhair cat over your head).

I dislike chunky yarn even more than I did before. And I think my reaction to alpaca is not imaginary. My eyes itch when I’m knitting it.

It’s just me and the Little Monster this weekend, and she, at last, has finally settled into her morning nap. I should get some knitting done.

9:30 am: started the third sock of the KPPPM pair for my niece. As I suspected, the third skein is patterning out much lighter than the other two. I know, I know. One is supposed to knit these yarn in alternating rows, but I hadn’t intended to use this skein at all.

4:00 pm: I had just washed the litter box and filled it with new litter and was washing my hands and…