Catkins

 Signs of Spring on our daily walk:  hazel catkins bursting out all over, that curious greenish gold they have.

Heavy snow predicted for the next two days, so the catkins might have been a bit premature.

A bit of knitting:  a little cowl using just under 50 gms of a lovely blue alpaca skein i found, not in Peru, but in the charity shop in Cockermouth.  Pattern is one of the simpler ones in the "Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible".

Two hats, one with the yarn held double.  Interesting how that felt to knit up.

And one with the yarn held single and using a traditional Fair Isle pattern.

My current knit, again a pattern from the Japanese book.  Not as complex as it looks.