Ready for the weekend...

This here is very obviously, to any textile person who has looked at Roman textiles, an ice cream inspired by tunics woven with clavi. Very, very obviously.

I pointed this out to several colleagues who all agreed, and one of them was even inspired to have one. The guy who designed the packaging obviously had no clue whatsoever, since it shows a pirate... but yes. Clavi. 

 I've told you about visiting the Museo Arqueologico de Carmo - this is how it looks on the inside. Well, the half-inside - it's inside the museum and technically inside the old church building, but as you can plainly see, something happened to the church (an earthquake, followed by a fire, if you want to know) and the roof never got rebuilt. 

And finally... some knitting happened! I have an unfinished hat that is brioche and more or less inspired by my Arabian Nights shawl, but it tends to spit out the needles when transported, so it's not exactly good travel knitting. Which means I had to start something new to take along, and I had to say goodbye to a pair of socks recently, and so I decided to start a new pair. 

These are the Semki socks (the pattern is available for free on ravelry), and the yarn is sock yarn from Alte Künste, dyed naturally. It might not be the perfect choice for the pattern, but I am suitably amused by it, and I quite like the combination of colours and pattern, and think it's visible enough.

(Also today is obviously a day for long runaway sentences...)