I joined the monkey sock swap yesterday , all of a sudden I am becoming a 'joiner' . I haven't knitted this pattern and so I am interested to see how it turns out. The pattern is from Knitty and is a top down one. I prefer toe up , I hate ,loathe , just can't do grafting . After all of these years, I have managed to come up with some really sneaky ways round grafting , but still avoid it if possible .

Today we have had the most glorious sunshine, I dragged some garden furniture out, filled it with cushions and knitted in the sunshine for an hour or so, such total decadence in the middle of the day !!!! It is bound to rain, or worse tomorrow ........