Some progress

This



Has become this



Has become this



All in the space of a month! I am actually quite impressed with myself.

I am also pleased with the fact that the yarn has softened, gained a much nicer hand, as I have knitted with it, so is going to feel all right around my neck. As is obvious, I never did find a more sophisticated pattern, just simple yarn overs, but even unblocked, they look quite nice, and suit the character of the yarn. The colour has worked out well, too - I used the breaking-off-to-match technique, was rarely aware of any bits where that hadn't been successful, and by dint of having to frog and reknit, even managed to end up with a dark-to-dark thing going on.

All things, given the accompanying background noise, I am indeed well-pleased.

Oh - and look closely at the photograph and you will see a hard hoar frost, quite a rarity these days. I gather it is going to be warmer, greyer and wetter very soon, dammit, but it is lovely while it lasts.

I have a knitting sighting to report - went to Opera North in Leeds last night to see "Ruddigore", which was a great treat as I grew up on amateur performances of G&S and have never lost the taste for it. I really enjoyed the performance, but in the second half, one of the main characters came on, drew up a chair and got out her knitting! I got the distinct impression that her incompetence with the needles was her own and not the character's, but still....I had to be forcibly restrained from cheering.

I have attempted today to give myself more focus - I have been drifting around of late, maybe not so surprisingly, but It Won't Do. So far, so good - now to refind that part bag of cashmere that surfaced a few days ago when hunting for something else, and to get out my Bosworth charka, for far too long languishing on the shelf. Then next up, having worked out the stitch count, to actually cast on the mohair yarn.

Go, me.........