So I have finished both sleeves on the capecho now. I actually did that last Monday. I still need to knit the collar, sew the seams and see if it fits. I was a bit scared of that, so on Tuesday I decided I wanted a quickie project, something small. I dug in the stash, and pulled out a skein of Crystal Palace Cotton Chenille. A pattern for a washcloth shaped like a flower (from Weekend Knitting, I believe) was in the first knitting magazine I ever bought (IK Winter 2003). I started and finished on the same day. I wove in ends the next day only because I had rehearsal that night, and so no time after dinner.

I have two more skeins, one in a baby blue, the other in apple green. I think they (and some nice soap) will be mum’s Mother’s Day present. The washcloth is just perfect for a quick knit.
Then Wednesday, I still didn’t feel up to tackling the rest of the capecho of doom, so I decided to get some more stash on the go before my Webs order arrived (it, incidentally, was shipped Friday) so I started on one of the projects I marked in the newest IK. Roza’s Socks:

The yarn is Lorna’s Laces in Somerset and is behaving very nicely, no pooling so far. We’ll see what it does on the foot though. I’m about an inch away from turning the heel. I hope to finish this one before the month is out.
I did all that sock at work listening to the audiobook of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I love that book. Love love love. So much so, that I had this idea (dangerous I know). I want to start making my own clothes. What if I embroidered a little raven on each one? Somewhere hidden, it’d be my label. That, and then I had this vision of a pair of perfectly-fitting pants (sigh) with a quote on the inside of the waistband. Literary clothing, it is the next big thing. It can be the Childermass collection.