Noro Fun (and sun!)

After a brief seasonal show (snow and temps in the teens) we are back on track toward an early spring. Dad swears the crocuses are already up in places, can you believe it? And today we saw our first Robin, back from wintering in the far south and demanding to know why we have no seed in our feeders. I guess I'm still on Yankee time, though. Feels like I went straight from late November to mid-April and totally missed a real winter. If this continues, my knitting's going to slow down and grind to a halt in another month or so. Who can knit in spring and summer? Knitting is such a comfy, nesting, fall kind of habit for me. But this year, I'm gonna give it my all in trying to knit the whole year round.

Hoping this one skein beanie hat will be a quick project. So far, the world's slowest knitter (yes, that would be me) has done all this in merely a day's worth of knitting. In a week, if all goes well, it will be ready to ship off to my sister-in-law, Hyeran, in NYC. I hope she likes it. I've been dying to play a bit with Noro Silk Garden. All the color fabulousness of Noro but gentler than the Kureyon (a concern for me--allergic to wool--it even irritates my finger pads while knitting, making it hard to do for more than a few minutes at a time).

The only strange thing I have to report is several burs I had to pull out of the yarn, little sharp sticker like things. Evidence of wool not carefully carded, maybe. I found the first one by pricking my finger while purling a stitch--ow! Have pulled out about 7 of them now and about a third through the skein. Anyone else encounter this?