Tuesday, August 10, 2010

What now?

I'm bored. I finished the L&O sweater, and now I don't know what to do with my needles. I have some little projects on the needles--too many, actually. 3 pairs of socks, a stole, and a scarf for my boyfriend. Last night at knitting I started a second attempt at Connie Chang Chinchio's Geodesic Cardigan (RAV link), using some Knitpicks Shadow laceweight yarn in the Midnight colorway (it's basically navy, with black and dark green heathering). It's going, but I'm sort of "meh" on it. I think I want to knit something with bigger and more colorful yarn, so it'll be visually exciting and quicker to finish.

I have a couple of projects lined up to knit for other people: a Rogue hoodie for my niece, and the vintage knock-off colorwork sweater (of dooom!--because it requires stranding 3 colors at a time) for my friend L. I am planning a trip to Michigan soon, when I want to measure my niece afresh (she is a pre-teen, so I'm worried that she's going to grow a lot all of the sudden), so that's why I haven't started the former. And I don't know why, but I'm just not ready to knit on the latter, I think because I knit a bunch on the body already that needs to be ripped out, and I'm dreading that. Also because it will end up being a very large pile of wool in my lap. Maybe I should start a sleeve, see how the 3-color stranding goes...

Other things that I have lined up: I have some nice purple Ultra Alpaca Light that I bought to make Connie Chang Chinchio's Sabbatical. That would be a nice transition piece for Fall. I have some dark blue Beaverslide Dry Goods worsted weight yarn that I have a couple of ideas for--it will become some kind of cardigan. I'm considering making an elongated, looser-fitting version of Bonne Marie Burns' Twist, with the cabled sailor collar rather than the hood. I have some mottled green (it's called Marsh Mix) Ultra Alpaca Worsted that could become a pullover, could become a cardigan--maybe Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark's Girl Friday?. I have some heathered blue Cascade 220 that I could use for that one, too... There's more, but I'll stop now. It's so overwhelming! I think I need to take tonight off, and do some stash diving tomorrow, see which yarn I can't keep my fingers away from.

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