Retro Rescue.

 So here we are again — more days off, and today has been a busy one.
I had a list of chores to get through in town, plus the grocery shopping, and the day started under a blanket of thick fog. I couldn’t resist snapping a quick photo from the rooftop carpark.

Somewhere under all that grey is Caroline Bay — the gardens, the play area, the dunes, the fairground. Autumn fog has arrived right on schedule.

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One of my missions in town was to hunt down more of that dark, chocolaty brown yarn I’ve been using for the latest scrappy crochet project. If you remember, I found a bundle of granny squares in an op shop a few weeks ago. The colours all play nicely together, though you can tell they were made by different hands. After joining them, I started adding rounds… and then spent two full evenings tidying yarn ends. None of the original squares had been finished off, and of course there were all my joining threads as well.

That job is finally done, and once today’s chores were out of the way, I curled up with a movie and my hook. I’ve added a few more rounds, as you can see. I showed a progress photo to my daughter Kaiy the other night, and the moment she saw it she said it looked like something straight out of the 70s. She’s absolutely right — so this piece now has a name:

Retro Rescue.

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That’s my progress report for today. I’ve got two more days off, so hopefully I’ll get the last of the kiwi legs stitched on and make a decision about those maple leaves. In four weeks and two days I’ll be on my way, so the kiwis really do need to be finished before then. Plenty of time… as long as I stop getting distracted by other projects. I do enjoy having a cosy project on my lap on these cool evenings though.