WiP amnesia

At the weekend I decided that rather than cast on yet another sweater in my lovely new Kureyon, I really had to get my jacket-version of Ragna out and finish her - she's been hanging around on the needles all winter, and I only had one front and the neckband and the Dreaded Zip to do. And she's hogging all the 5mm needles...

The front is almost finished - a couple more repeats of the pattern and then the front neck shaping - so I thought I'd assemble the other shoulder and one sleeve; I've been undecided about how to complete the shoulders because they're heavily cabled, and have been wondering about grafting them...

So I got all the bits out, and laid them together... and noticed something.

I seem to have stopped two entire repeats short of completion on the back... two whole repeats... 32 rows of 160 stitches, with cabling in every right-side row, and I'd forgotten all about it! Gah!

So, back to the front, and then back to the back... don't think this is going to be finished for the weekend, as planned! Oh well, puts off attempting to overdye a zip for another few days...

Another couple of WiPs then - another square for the SkipNorth charity afghan, waffle-stitch pattern from Jan's blocks book

and Ilga Leja's Brickwork scarf, in Trekking 108 from Stash, which has demonstrated to me that I am unable to count accurately to 8... but I love this scarf. The stitch pattern is really clever, the yarn is much nicer to knit on larger needles - I found it a bit splitty when making socks - and I did a crochet cast-on which unzipped very obediently, which was heartening! And I love the colourway - it's slightly bizarre that you get colours in the knitting which you can't actually see on the ball!