It doesn’t feel as if there’s been much progress for a weekend’s work.

Three inches of knitting at a push. Surprisingly, that’s 20% of the shawl done. The advantage of knitting a shawl upwards and inwards is that although I had to cast on 375 stitches, the number decreases as the shawl progresses. So by the time I’m 60% of the way, I’ll be knitting a row a minute (or something).

I’ve finished the border charts and am now on the first repeat of the centre pattern. It’s a very repetitive pattern so should be easy to memorise.

I just love the cashmere. As I said, it wasn’t a hardship to frog the Sea Silk, and yes, there was the lure of snuggly cashmere goodness to ease the pain considerably. This is one item that is not going to be gifted to anyone. It’s all for ME!