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I finished the Contact Spread portion of the MKAL last night -- 2 hours and 20 minutes to knit 10 rows, with 269 stitches on the needles at the end. That's Clue 1 done.

I already have Clue 2, and if I do at least 10 rows a night, I will be finished with that by the time Clue 3 is released on Friday.



I also dug out the sewing machine sanj left with me when she went off to grad school forever ago. It is a Singer Touch and Sew model 636, and weighs a ton. It's probably an all-metal machine from 1960s. I think I can get it operating, and since there was approximately 6 yards of muslin packed with it, along with some fat quarters, my attempts at mask-making will proceed apace. Eventually.

2 hours & 20 minutes of knitting yesterday, with a 6-row border pattern and 12 of the 24 rows of the Winter Branches block of the MKAL.

I joined a Mystery Knit-Along on Ravelry -- Love in the Time of Coronavirus -- and received the yarn I ordered for it today, an extra-large skein of Twisted Fiber Art's Arial Evolution in the Boreal colorway.



It's quite gorgeous. I think the MKAL is going to be a flame-patterned lace, as the suggested colorways were much more red, but I've been wanting to make something with this colorway for quite a while, and chocolate brown is one of my best colors.