It isn't Spring yet........

The glorious days of warm weather and sunshine have gone and we are again having cloudy and colder days. According to the calendar, we only have 25 days left of winter, let's hope this is true. Even though we had a bit of sleet and ice on Friday, the crocuses are continuing to bloom and add a bright spot of color to the beds out front. DH was out this morning weeding in the iris beds. He has a case of the 'winter jitters', not helped by the fact that I've come down with a sore throat so I'm a bit grumpy today. I begin knitting a cute scarflet pattern last night called the Fidget http://www.onesheephill.com/fidget.html . I started it regardless of having other projects on the needles right now because I've been wanting to make one for myself, and because I needed something that doesn't require concentration for my Monday night knit group. Any one that participates in a weekly knitting group knows that the laughter and conversation are half the fun of knitting together. I've ripped back many-a-row after letting my mind wonder. Now I try to have something to knit on that doesn't require much concentration. The Fidget is knitted with a twisted moss stitch and bulky weight yarn. I had a couple of skeins of Twilleys of Stamford's freedom wool that I've been wanting to use so that's what I cast on with. After about three or four inches I realized it isn't going to work. The stitch doesn't show through with the color changes in this yarn and 'the stitch is the scarf'; otherwise its just another scarf. I will rip it out and find another use for this soft yarn and on my next trip to the yarn shop I'll find suitable yarn for knitting the Fidget. As it turns out, I won't be joining the knit group tonight anyway, I don't want to spread any germs.