Lead On

Good things are happening.  Like the weather and babies, it comes in its own time.

I picked up the sweater of several patterns and worked on it yesterday.  I was chilly and its slightly heavier yarn was calling to me.  It is moving along smoothly.

Its really starting to look like a sweater too.  I am using my new method of colourwork where I hold both colours in my left hand.  I don't have it down perfectly yet but it is going well and I feel more confident and comfortable with it all the time.  It is not taking much longer to knit the colourwork than to knit plain.

The pattern is just starting to make sense from the right side and the inside looks pretty well balanced.

I am still finding that my main colour is the colour I knit too tightly and am having to watch the tension of it carefully but I am doing better.

I only have to finish the row I am on before I switch to my two rows of red as the main colour.  The idea of it makes me giddy.  This pop of red is really going to be fun in this otherwise very neutral sweater.

Lead on McDuff.  Time to knit.