Ravelled Sleeve of Care

My sleep is all over the place. I'm typing this around 6.30pm and can barely keep my eyes open. However if I stay up then around 10pm I'll be as lively as a spring lamb and be unable to sleep until around 3am. Then I'll end up napping in the middle of the day. But if I go to bed now then the chances of me being wide awake between midnight and 4am are ridiculously high. Grumble. 

I had four hours sleep last night and I was up at 5.30am. I did all sorts of admin up to around 9.30am. I sorted through a load of emails, checked in on my social media and went through the birthdays on my author Facebook page. I pretty much accept everyone there, so now I have a gazillion friends who I don't really know. I've decided that every day I'll go through the birthdays and if they haven't posted for a couple of years then I'll unfriend. Yesterday I went from 72 friends having birthdays to just over 20 after doing this. There weren't so many today, as a lot of people put 1st Jan as a default, but I unfriended someone who I didn't really know and who hadn't posted since 2018. I'm sure that they can find me if they want. I started trying this to keep under the Facebook friends limit, but it's been fascinating over just two days. By the way, if I unfriend you because you don't post or I've slipped, if you're not too offended, please drop a message or put in a friend request. I don't want to lose good friends. I'm just trying to avoid scammers and inactive accounts.

I'm failing with a scarf. I was trying the Lamar scarf pattern and I made a right mess with it. It's ages since I did any cables and knitting 6 stitch cables in rib was a little more than what I'm used to. I managed to drop a load of stitches and pull some out and there was no way I could pick up again. I hadn't got far, thank goodness, so I thought that instead I would knit the scarf from the Mission to Seafarers scarf instead to donate. The Seafarer's scarf is cast on 40 stitches then knit 200g and cast off so I cast on 40 stitches and settled down.

Then I wondered about going up a size. I was knitting the double knitting with the correct size needles, but plain knitting always drapes better if you use a larger needle. I'm considering ripping it out and trying again with the Lamar Pattern but with four stitches in the cable instead of six. I think that I can make the numbers work. I may leave it to one side with the rest of my gazillion unfinished projects and go back to my blanket.

I'm signing off before I start sleep typing.

Hugs and good health to all.