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And a dark horse project ... this is my Sonnet, which has been "resting" for a long while. I had completed the entire body and was halfway up both sleeves (knitting both at once), but had put it on hold because I was unhappy about mysterious stitch count changes within it (one of the hazards of doing anything beyond what amounts to a simple rectangle at work, I suppose). A couple of weeks ago, I frogged it (popular knitting term for unraveling: "Rip it! Rip it! Rip it!") while watching a movie and then started it over a few days later. It's a ridiculously fast knit and a very simple pattern (which is what made the number of miscounts in the previous incarnation even more bizarre), so am already finished one front and the back and about to start on second front (body is knit sideways in one piece ... in photo the front is at the bottom, the half-scoop at lower right is the front neck and second scoop is an armhole. Yarn is a extreme thick-and-thin with a metallic thread wrapped 'round it:
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Other projects are not forgotten ... daylight hours of last couple of weekends have been taken up with other activities/errands, but next block of free time belongs to the rainbow jacket. And the red cabled/hooded scarf is progressing as well ... first half is done, second pocket is completed and am well up second half of main scarf. :-)
