After many years of knitting wilderness, I got the needles out again and this is my first effort. It was a bit of a comedy of errors, with slipped stitches (mostly due to the type of wool) and other calamities, but I got there in the end. Not entirely happy with the pattern that developed from the 'random' thickness of the wool, but it's not bad. Now I can get on with the jumper that I started knitting Steve about 10 years ago!!!