Piedwarbler

Button band - left side - looks good enough

Button hole a complete mess. There is a piece of yarn right across where the hole should’ve been

A hole that can’t be seen, that’s what a disaster it is

Well, my first button band knitted up well, but the one with the button holes in is a disaster! I’ve followed the pattern really carefully. BO2 on one row followed by CO2 on the next row. But it’s just a tangle. Ugh. How to fix. I shall frog. 🧶😰 Menet cardigan (Ravelry) plus Debbie Bliss yarn

A still from the film showing the gastronomes enjoying their chef’s creations

Watching The Taste of Things with Juliette Binoche on the BBC iPlayer, and it’s rather wonderful - as recommended by my sister

I’m glad you loved it. The book is even better

Unlawful Killings, by Wendy Joseph, KC

Terrifically readable book about the working life of a Criminal Court Judge. I was glued!

I’m Piedknitter on there - would love to see how you get on with the pattern. I’m on the button band which I’m finding really tricky

Menet pattern by Mindie Tallack Top down and seamless, Menet has a garter slip stitch pattern on the yoke in three alternating colours and a plain, stocking stitch body. The neck, body and sleeve edges are knitted in moss stitch.

Yes of course it is called Menet by Mindie Tallack, and it is on Ravelry

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Daffodils in a yellow vase with daffodils on the vase

It’s March! Daffodils and frogspawn 🌼🐸

I might try something in my size - I wanted to have a go with a small garment as I’ve never knitted a cardigan or done slip stitch colour work before, so this is for my neighbour’s granddaughter, (she’s 6) as I don’t have any grandchildren of my own. 🩷

Thank you x

My mum taught me when I was little. I don’t think I ever finished a garment, although I started about three as a teenager. Then I gave up until four years into retirement I decided to try again - made a hat in Jan 2025, and went from there! X

Thank you! That’s very kind!

Thank you for your kind words x

Oh wow! Thank you so much - I’ve only been knitting for just over a year, it’s my first go at slip stitch colour work. I hope it works out and fits the little girl I’ve made it for x

That’s a pretty stitch pattern. Hope the dialysis went well

Waiting for Godot review – Matthew Kelly and George Costigan are a bleakly funny double act Even the safety curtain has a morbid air in Dominic Hill’s post-apocalyptic staging of Beckett’s classic

Just booked tickets for this, and I can’t wait. First saw it at school studying A level, and I’ve seen it a few times since

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/f...

Two sleeves on a top down Menet cardigan with ribbing in pale pink Debbie Bliss

Almost finished knitting the second sleeve hoooorrrraaaayyyy! Nine more rows and then ribbing, and they are DONE! 🩷🧶

You make that look delightfully easy

YouTube video by The Mechanical Music Man Get Lucky by Daft Punk on a mechanical organ

Thru the power of Bluesky I discovered this yday, I fear life will never be the same youtu.be/EWO1-WE4oNw?... it’s brilliant 🤩

Thank you! I don’t think I could stand two at one time. One at one time is one too many 🤭😀😀😀

Yes. This is exactly it. They’re just annoying, more so than anything else. I don’t know why it is. “You’re stuck on sleeve island” - someone said that, and it feels right.

Menet cardigan sleeve in Debbie Bliss yarn in pink

Close up of sleeve showing ssk stitches every 8 rows

Oh, sleeve! You go on and on and on and on and on and on

#knitting 🧶

I have 3 more lots of decreases to knit and then carry on to 30.5 cm 😬

And then sleeve 2

Beautiful!

I’ve read two of those - will look out for Escape. The Orphan Master’s Son is excellent and Lord of the Flies is one of my favourite novels

That’s excellent and I’m a sleeve away from needing to make buttonholes, which is new to me, so thank you! Just what I want!

Let us know when you find them and good luck! Hope they turn up

Probably George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - which contains short stories and his thoughts about them. So a good one to dip in and out of

The BBC Sport Winter Olympics montage does not disappoint.

The cover shows two girls side on, with red long hair covering their faces. One is leaning her head against the other one’s back and she has her back to her. They are both wearing bottle green dresses but one dress is short sleeved and one is long sleeved.

I started I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait, which was a Guardian best fiction book of 2022 so I got a copy from the library 😊

Pale pink edging to ribbing

Small circular needle with the sleeve just starting to appear. A ball of yarn lies to the side.

I’m on with knitting the sleeves now and using a 25cm circular. Pattern is Menet and yarn is Debbie Bliss 🧶

Wow wow wow