First of all the progress on the jumper. I've just finished the "flounce" section and about to start on the main body now. I was a bit anxious when I started dropping stitches (which the pattern calls for) but worked out by the time I got to the end of it. The picture doesn't show the top too well as the needles are a bit shorter than I'd like.
Given my disastrous encounter with Sirdar Dune I was somewhat ambigiuous about using a fashion yarn again but even the fact I'm using 12mm needles I'm quite enjoying myself. Thanks to Bev I've even picked up some Thyme/green and making another when I've finished this one.
When I was out shopping at lunchtime I popped into a charity shop and overwhelmed with the amount of knitting books they have as normally they're pretty scarce. I was thinking about the Montse Stanley knitting book recently as we'd been discussing knitting graph paper on UKHandKnitters.
Also on the shelves were these Rowan books.
I started leafing through one and thought "oh don't think much of this" as all I was seeing were black/white old worldy photos. When I got further through I found the patterns and the pictures in colour so went rushing off to the counter to pay!!
