Sweaters and Socks and Gloves and Things
These two are clearly relatives. The gloves were for
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desireearmfeldt as replacements for a previous pair of gloves that wore out. I tried to get the same yarn and couldn't find it, so I got a different cashmere/merino yarn, but it's much loftier and lighter. Fascinating the difference that the spinning makes. The sweater was for my newest niece! 
Two more baby sweaters for work folks: 
A bunch of small toys:
A pair of socks for the Christmas stash, if there is ever Christmas again. (My family had been planning to switch to family get togethers in the summer this year. Oh well.) And some surprisingly cute baby socks shoes what are those things called? Right, booties.
And the shawl is called "Love in the time of Coronavirus". It was a knit-along, the title of the pattern based of course on "Love in the time of cholera". "Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.” Knit-alongs are sort of isolated social things, with a bunch of people knitting the same thing, paced by individual "clues", or pieces of the pattern, being released every few weeks. I imagined the gradient as "blood or sunset descending into darkness, but then dawn comes and the light comes back" but it gets wide so fast, it's more blood than light. Without the less-optimistic-than-planned symbolism, I do like how it looks, especially with the twirly ends (which could be flung across or worn twirly). The pattern was a CDC / Meals on Wheels fundraiser, and I did like feeling like I was doing a thing with other people, though I wasn't really social with the other knitters, so I am not sure I did it quite right. But I guess, it was one of the things that pushed me in the "we are all in this together" direction rather than all the other less good directions.
