I feel like I haven’t been doing a lot of knitting the last week, it seems like I have been constantly busy with something else but I made up for it today in the car. Jesse’s mother, Robyn, is in town and after spending the first two days of the weekend taking Isabelle out without me, so I could work, we all went for a day trip together. Hours and hours in the car made for good hooded jacket progress.

Isabelle thought all this knitting was very dull and she slept through it.

Jesse and Robyn were too interested in the scenery to pay attention to my knitting.

We had a great day - and it wasn’t just because i finally got to do some knitting.

Even with all that fun I did indeed make a lot of progress on the jacket - partly because Jesse, the designated driver, let me have a light on so I could keep knitting after darkness fell. In fact I made so much progress I had to stop knitting and wait to get home and get out my books. I am about to shape my very first armholes and I need to decide a) whether to bind off or hold live stitches and use them for seaming later, and b) if I bind off whether to bind off both sides on the same row and therefore rejoin yarn to keep going, or to bind off over two rows so I can keep using the same yarn. I hope to have this question (or two) resolved by tomorrow night. In the mean time here it is waiting for armhole shaping: