Axial tilt is the reason.

I've seen a reminder that "axial tilt is the reason for the season" - or the seasonal change, if you want to be specific.  Happy Solstice, y'all.

Artist uncredited at the source where I found this.

We're in the yearend crunch at work, so life has been very busy the last week.  I did get to my parents' house today to help them set up holiday decorations, including a small train, and forgot to take photographs.

I did remember to get a progress photo on the three current projects (the one for my friend is in time-out temporarily), and as you can see I remain well behind the date on my shawl:

Same orientation, roughly, as last week.
The purple hat in the bottom right is almost ready for decreases.
Hard to see the progress on the other hat, which has 120 stitches
around, but I'm almost done with the first leftover of yarn.
Shawl is now on December 7th, and yes, the stripes are wider.

I was please with how today's weekly soufflé came out - nice and high: