Here, belatedly, is the second knitting project I finished the other week – the stripey blanket I started months ago. It’s… well, someone was kind enough to describe it as a ‘travel’ blanket. It doesn’t quite stretch across the end of our bed, but it adequately covers four knees in front of the TV.

At one point, three particular stripes reminded me of a Zoom ice lolly, and that made me think it would be fun to try knitting bits of familiar pictures (starting with confectionery wrappers) and Photoshopping the knitted bits into place.

It turns out Felix had already had a similar idea, inspired by a splendid cairn. Look at the pictures!

Don’t you just wish you would stumble across a giant knitted cairn on a country walk? Just once?