Wick – Double Diamonds: Week 9, 29 June

As I write, I’m sitting in my office in the attic. In summer, this is the hottest place in the house; in winter, the coldest. However, it’s warm enough today that I opened the windows in the bedroom to let the fresh air of summer in and the stale air out. The weather this past week has been, as a friend from Kent says, ‘tower bridge’: up and down. There has been cool cloudy weather and hot sunny weather. There have been prolonged spells of thunder and lightning, thankfully not directly overhead. There has been heavy rain too, and gardeners were grateful. Field of buttercups I returned to the museum on Monday for more gansey charting. I figured out a chart for the machine knit pattern mentioned last week, which will need to be test knit to ensure it’s do-able. That was followed by the start of a chart for a gansey with a fetching pattern of vertical zigzags and hearts. The zigzags are generally called ‘marriage lines’ in the gansey world, but I prefer the more descriptive ‘zigzags’.…