Pattern: Revontuli/Northern Lights Shawl, pdf pattern here
Yarn: Colourdrift BFL from the lovely Maylin at Tri’Coterie
A simple but very effective pattern for a rainbow scarflet of a shawl. The yarn is lovely and soft, though it’s actually a little more muted in real life. It still makes for a nice wearable rainbow for brightening up greyer days, though.
I think a close-up of the rainbow may be in order:
Well, we’re getting there! The kitchen is all but completed, thankfully (just a cupboard door or two to be affixed), and downstairs is well on the way to looking much more like a habitable space. It’s now been painted (after some nipping about trying to find the most sensible paint deal on Alan’s part while I was at home nursing a migraine whose origins may have been either stress or paint fumes from the primer coat, damned if I know which) and has had the old floor taken up and the underlay put down so hopefully we should have new laminate shortly. The stairs and landing (continuous decor from the rest of downstairs, so as we’re doing down there we have to do those too) still need tackling, and then once we’ve got all that sorted we’ll be able to move downstairs again. And then re-do the bathroom, but I think I’ll just not think about that for the time being…
It will be quite confusing to walk into the house and, y’know, be able to *use* the downstairs. Instead of immediately trundling upstairs. Hopefully the furniture has survived its stay in the garage!
I will be quite confused by actual telly, too. We have rubbish reception upstairs so haven’t bothered to plug ours in while we’re living up here - consequently any tv viewing we’ve done has been courtesy of laptops and BBC iPlayer, ITV CatchUp (by far the most irritatingly buggy of the options proffered by the terrestrial channels! But they do have the new Marples…) or occasionally 4OD. Will have to start recording things in which we’re interested so that we can just watch them when we feel like it as we’re doing now!
