Still not warm

Patience is an admirable virtue.  Unfortunately, it is not one that I am able to attribute to myself.

March is a trying month.  March is a month of waiting and waiting and waiting.  March is snow and rain and wind and sun and warm and cold all wrapped up.

I feel teased!  It is almost warm enough to go outside, and the green in the ground is almost showing.  And just when you think a real spring-like day has come, by the next you are standing in inches of snow again.

It is no longer winter, and it is not yet spring.  It is March.

Days like these, though, are good for knitting.  So here is some progress on one of my projects:

I have been knitting this blanket since October (if I remember correctly), and it finally has gotten to its last stage of construction.  I began knitting in the round for the center, and then I knit around the center again.  Now, I am crocheting a border around the outside, putting about 6 to 8 inches in length to each side of the blanket.

It is not a large blanket, only more or less a lap blanket.  The style the blanket ended up in took me by surprise too, as I did no planning in the design and have been adding yarn mostly on whim.  It ended up looking like a patchwork quilt of cables, really.  There is a lot of texture, which looks nice in the neutral color, so I believe that the blanket has overall been successful.

This lap blanket really has been an enjoyable project, too.  Cables are always fun to do, as they keep your interest longer (for row after row after row after row after row......).  The crocheting is the most mundane part, so I am hoping to keep my patience in finishing up this extensively long project to ensure that it turns out the appropriate size.

But I know how I am with patience :)