COVID-19

What a horror this disease is, for the world, for each individual country, for each state, county and town. Today, as I write, our county hasn’t been too much effected, but in the past week, there has been a big hit in a large processing plant in the county south of us. I’m expecting a greater spread of contagion and effect in the supply chain this week.

My kids are all home, and I’ve been the one to go out and shop and cook, which has multipled my level of work, but I have loved their proximity.

Despite added busy-ness, I’ve done the American thing and cleaned rooms, drawers, and closets. This has included my worst areas of mess: my desk and my craft room.

In the craft room, I gathered all three baskets of “works in progress” and put them in the same area, hoping they wouldn’t breed. In the bottom was this shawl that I started last October.

It was about a couple inches into the project, but in two or three days, I got it to this point.

Then, yesterday, I cast off at the neck, soaked and blocked it.

The shawl is Hyrnan Randalín by Sigridur Halldorsdottír in an Icelandic shawl book of untypeable title (but, it’s for sale at Schoolhouse Press).

Now, as a reward, I’ve cast on a hat. :)