All things changing.

 Given everything going on in the country, and the increase in COVID-19 infections all over the world, and the record-setting hurricane season, I don't have much interesting to report.  The election results are still in contention, although the gulf in the electoral numbers is vastly wider than it was in 2000, and the "Million MAGA March" in DC yesterday with violent counterprotests have some people claiming we have a new civil war in progress.  So the president went to play golf.

Therefore I keep knitting, which seems a sensible thing to do:

On top, the first dyelot; on the bottom, the shawl in progress.

I am on the third iteration of this shawl.  When I posted earlier this month the thought I would switch to US#8 needles, I did a test swatch and decided to do so.  That was iteration #2.  Then when I went to get the next skein, I realized that I had two that were closer in dyelot than the third - and I didn't like the look of the two as following the first.  The pair have a bit more white to them, the single is more saturated in colour.

Now iteration #3 is moving along nicely.  In the top photo, you see it OTN with Iteration #2 below.  Yes, the difference is not huge, but it's enough.  The middle photo is a closeup.

The bottom photo should show the lace band difference, but you cannot see much of the first one.  It's in the bottom left corner.  You can also see it at the bottom of the top photo, it was the last full section I did on Iteration #2.  The pattern has you do garter lace and I just didn't like the look of it, so I switched to stockinette lace for Iteration #3.  I am thinking of doing this pattern again and might do reverse stockinette lace on that one.

I'm down in the second Ridge Pattern Band, lots of long slow rows.  Good for listening to the conference I attended on Friday, and also a couple plays Friday night and last night.  When I was traveling I would spend weekends back in North Texas doing crazy amounts of theatre, and we've missed it, so I scheduled a viewing of a recording from one of the theatre companies we supported.  We had a zoom room that acted as the lobby where we gathered before and after and at intermission.  Not quite the same, but good to see people again.

Last night's was a new play, done online, and they hope to have a real-life version in a year or so.  It included a talkback with the playwright and online puzzles for the audience to put together.  I didn't do the first one but had fun with the second.  Occasionally more than one of us tried to grab the same puzzle piece, but the multiplayer jigsaw puzzles worked well.