Winter has come

Outside it is really, really windy, it is supposed to rain and the buildings here in Jerusalem are not well insulated. In fact - I have never been so cold indoors anywhere as I have been in Jerusalem. So I am so happy we have access to a great heating system (we have one which runs on gas) which we can turn on and off as we want (depending on the ratio between the level of the cold temperature and our willingness to pay the excessive gas bill for using it)!

But when we're both out of the house most of the day we don't keep it on, so over the summer I knit myself a shawl to keep me warm. It is so soft and warm, and not at all itchy - made from merino, alpaca and silk. Yum! I knitted it with the two strands of yarn - one was Drops Alpaca and one was KnitPicks Gloss Lace. This is my largest knitting project to date, and I am very pleased with the way it turned out. I used the pattern for the Levina shawl, but made some of my own changes, to make it just the way I wanted. The only thing I will be more careful about in the future is how to combine two different colours. Don't get me wrong - I like the way it turned out, but I do think the two different colours of the two yarns would have been nicer separately than when knitted together like this... Oh well, you live (knit) and learn.