Master Knitter Level 2 Update and Other (Hopefully) Interesting Stuff

I've been working on the Level 2 of the program.  This level involves 24 swatches(notice the fat binder), involving lots of finishing techniques, lace and cables,  There is a lot more writing in the level: 4 knitting book reviews (middle photo), patterns and instructions, many questions to answer (third photo), and a very long history

report.  The projects are a fair isle wristlet, an argyle sock, and a vest.  I have everything done but the report and the projects.  Report before projects--the ending to the report is done, and most of the research is done.

I had a frustrating experience this past week with an overspun alpaca yarn.  No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get a nice stockinette tension--and that's knitting in the round, where no purling is involved.  I saved this piece to show the yarn shop, then to be able to complete the project these liners are intended for, I pinned the strand of yarn to the ball of yarn, stood up, and let it unspin a few yards at a time.  Not much fun for a $20 small skein of yarn.  So all this work went into the orange mittens which had been shown before, but now are nicely lined.  Their owner loves them.
For the same person, a lovely green cabled hat, lined with some really funky yarn that he chose.  The hat is Briggs and Little Heritage, the liner is Mirasol Chirapa.  Here is the Ravelry link.

Same person has a sweater from the same yarn, beautiful workmanship (not by me), but it is too long.  So I have mutilated the sweater in preparation for re-grafting the ribbing onto the shortened sweater.  I chose to graft because some of the ribbing knit columns continued up through the sweater, framing the cables.  If I simply re-knit the ribbing downward, I would lose this continuity, but if the grafting gets too complicated, I can still do the downward ribbing as a last resort.

And now the next big project, the chain mail for the theatre.  This is the prototype on my lovely visage.

And the cording, all dyed, waiting to be rendered into the cowls.

I have a baby shower on Monday, so I whipped up these to go along with the gift.  Someone on Ravelry was having trouble with the pattern, so I offered to help, and in that process I whipped these up.  Parfait!!

And every knitter (aka as stasher) can relate to this image from Facebook.  So instead of some wise saying, this time I will end up with this thought:

Till next time:  keep healthy , keep safe, be happy.