20 June - another freaking knot in the yarn! This time a fair few yards had to be unspooled to resume colour continuity. Grr.

12 June - started the second heel with a knit rather than purl row and ended up with eye of the partridge rather than ribbing. Longer than the ribbing so only did two wedges.

10 June - first done with 45g left over - enough for a mid-calf sock for me! Starting second, reversing stripe order but (coincidentally) starting the toe at the same point in the colour scheme.

9 June - knot! A knot in the ball! Curses. Had to excise chunk of yarn and rejoin to maintain stripe integrity. Fortunately not too much yarn lost.

6 June - very much liking the “padded” (I would call it “reinforced”) sweet tomato heel. The reinforcement starts under the heel and continues round the back, just where it’s needed.

The bargain balls gift from Pixeldiva.

When hunting the elusive wild asparagus, cunningly camouflaged by being the same colour as the grass, the sky is blue with little white clouds and the wellies are black. Goodness! What a coincidence! Just the same colours as this yarn!

Notes:
Star toe:
JMCO 12 -> 56 sts, 4 inc per row; every row 6 times, every other row 4 times, every third row once; use backward loop for increase.

Foot:
2x2 rib (p1, k2 p2 to last st, p1), sole stst. 60 rows to heel.

Heel:
Cat Bordhi’s padded sweet tomato heel over 36 sts reducing to 8 in the centre.

Leg:
2 x 2 rib.
Start increases on row 36. Inc one st either side of central k2 every third row in pattern (starting with k1) 16 times. 88 sts.
Continue straight for another 24 rows.
Work decreases as reverse of increases 4 times, 80 sts.
Work 12 rows straight.

Cuff:
30 rows of 1x1 rib for turnover, SSBO.

Audiobooks - the Flavia de Luce series. What can I say? I thought I was going to adore these. I merely like them. Too much reliance on ridiculous coincidence in the plots. And the readings… omg. How many words are mispronounced? I’ve lost count. Particularly annoyingly the first instance of such I noticed was early in the first book and was a scientific/chemical term which Flavia would never have got wrong. There’s even a producer credited. This person either has cloth ears and English as a second language or is deeply asleep.