Really, truly, this photo doesn't do the glorious barfyness of this kit any sort of justice whatsoever.
The sheer pea-greenness, the Retro 1970ness, the "holy crap that's hideous...hey, you actually look great in that color!" of it all has me completely atwitter. This beats the turquoise wacky plaid - hands down - for deliciously obnoxious. And I? Can't wait to knit it up. I've decided on Laurent from Rowan's Fitted Knits
This is the third such kit I've procured, of late. I'm in the middle of my third try at a sweater (the Somewhat Cowl - I'd shifted to this pattern after my first choice was looking rather craptastic, and then I made it too big.) with the yarn from the aforementioned turquoise yarn/obnoxious plaid kit. Following that will be a riff on Tubey in natural-colored yarn from New Zealand that came with a chunk of totally divine brown tweed. Only then will I permit myself to fashon something out of this latest one. And my fingers are crossed that I win the auction for it's sister kit in a hideous Autumn Gold. Yes, my friends, the 70s are alive and well in my stash.
And, just to round out the long, LONG list of things I have planned in my head, I'll be making up a pattern for a shawl to donate to the Medieval Women's Choir Benefit Auction from the 100% cashmere I nabbed last week. I've got it all worked out - decreasing from a bazillion stitches rather than starting small and increasing as I go, and putting a cable pattern on two of the edges. I'm not sure I'll bother with fringe. We'll see how it sorts out.
And then there are gifts to knit - something for Scratchel's impending bundle of fun, Birthdays, Christmas...I'd like to test-drive some felted things to see if it's something I'd be willing to do a lot of to maybe sell. And I'd like to put together some hand towel/wash cloth sets out of something nice, just to see what that's all about...
There needs to be more time in the day.
