Slave to the Needles

Harvest Gold for the win!

No competition for this one.  I wonder why... 

At any rate, I'll need to give some thought to what I want to make out of the yarn.  If it's at all like its pea-green counterpart, there is PLENTY to work with...I'd put it at a worsted or DK weight.  Maybe a scoopy or deep V-neck sweater vest.  I'm open to suggestions.

Meanwhile, work progresses on the Somewhat Cowl.  I'd say I'm about 70% done, now.  Heading to the bottom ribbing, then it's sleeves and the cowly part and done.  Hopefully by then the shipment will have arrived from KnitPicks so I can crank out a couple of baby Kimonos for Scratchel.  I should have enough yarn left over from the sweater I'm working on to make one or two for Heidi, too.

Thinking about washcloths, hand towels and bathmats, lately.  I'm glad the weather has been shitty this week, so I don't have to feel guilty about sitting inside and knitting (or reading Harry Potter, as the case may be).  Ah, well.  It won't last.  The Evil Orb will return to the sky soon enough.

...as thick as pea soup...

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, without the intarsia/embroidered flower bits.  I think this'll make a fantastic little sweater jacket, and with a perfectly matching pencil skirt, I'm hoping I'll hit a kind of Anthropologie-esque look without the weird pattern combos and froofy bits.  I just need to find the ideal skirt pattern, and maybe nut up and get a dress form so I can sew it my own damn self.

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.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

Well, I just went ahead and did it.  Bought myself a digital camera.  I guess I'm serious about this. 

Go me.