Moving along .... slowly

Sometimes I amaze myself - I've reached row 32 of the WRS and nothing horrible has happened - no dropped stitches, no cat atrocities, no major errors (see note to self from yesterday). Maybe the Knitting gods are waiting until there are at least 300 rows, and then they will let loose with four dropped stitches that run down all the way to the waste wool ...

These pictures prolly don't look like much yet, but they at least indicate that there is a pattern to this scrunched up bit of silk, and it is increasing somewhat in size - and this is progress!

I did a few rows on the Rosebud, but it seems dull - after working with the silk, the yarn feels hairy and thick, and the pattern too simple. The Opal socks and the Rosebud were supposed to projects to enjoy when I needed to rest from the intense concentration of the WRS and instead it's turning out I need to wrench myself away from the WRS to make any progress on the others.