I had to have a couple of go's at joining up the neck at the front, but now it's going well.
Meanwhile I've been indulging in another kind of twisting stitches: twined knitting or Tvåändsstickning (Swedish) or tvebandsstrikking (Norwegian). I think both those terms mean 'two-end knitting'. That's what you do: take the two ends of the ball of wool and knit with each end alternately, twisting between each stitch. You can also use two different colours, as I am doing. It sounds really laborious, but actually when you're shown how to do it right (as I was, at the IKnit weekender by the lovely Dutch Knitters) it's not so bad - hardly any slower than any other two-colour knitting. Your wool does get twisted up, though and you have to spend time untwisting (again, there's a technique for that). It would be less twisty with the real z-plied wool, but I'm using some lovely Gotland that I bought from Blacker at the weekend. I could spin my own z-ply, I suppose!