Idleness and other joys - on the pins

This weekend has been a lovely relaxing time and I managed to fiddle with a few projects that I have been playing with. After the frantic hat knitting of the Yarn Smackdown I spent quite a few hours on the Jaywalkers. They are coming along really well and I think that the yarn I've choosen really suits them. Only shame is that they yarn, Sirdar Town and Country Sock wool has been discontinued. I've got the harlequin shade and it looks great at the stripes are really showing up in the pattern.

I've also dragged out from hibernation a throw that I started over 2 years back from Colinette mohair and giotto. I bought the kit from Jenny Scott's in Clapham, Yorkshire Dales, UK thinking that I could get it done really easily and managed to lose interest in it too quickly but it looks great. I started again and have managed to add another 10" to it but then realised that I had changed the pattern slightly. Okay, a lot. It still looks good though and the thought of frogging mohair fills my heart with dread so it'll probably stay that way and just be different.

Apart for that no other things have been started or finished. I'm a bit further on with the felted bag. I really should have finished this by now but some how it got sidetracked but I have only a handle to go before sewing the base and felting so it shouldn't take long. And I found I have made a mistake with my topsecret jumper and will have to frog it back to the sleeve join - or lose about a stone across my shoulders. I did way too many decreases in too short a space. If nothing else it shows that I have become a better, or at least more diligent knitter than years ago I would have just left it and never worn the thing. I want to wear this and want to make sure I do a good job.

RIP the pink fluffy thing that I was pretending was a scarf. It was hideous (both to look at and the manner of it's death) and decided to end it's life by jumping off the needles and I couldn't be bothered to slip them back so it has officially died and gone to the great bin of the sky.