Well, this is turning out to be quite the week. As I'm writing this, it's way before the voting polls close and way before I've started to watch any election returns. No doubt this morning the election results are all that are on people's minds, me included. And no matter how the election has turned out this morning, my title, I realize, fits. This election and its results, regardless of its outcome, will have been interesting.
But I'm blogging about something else: Yarn. Imagine that, in a knitting blog. (Yes, imagine that, too: This is -- for now, anyway -- returning to being a knitting blog. You never know what you're going to get around here.)
So yarn. And more archeology.
Yesterday I went home a bit early, sailed through the voting (no lines!) and came home to rather unsuccessfully try to get rid of a headache. I did get something done, though, and that is I did some more organizing and photographing of yarns, and posting them in my stash folder in Ravelry. It's not a surprise to me that I have too much yarn. For quite a while, I've been systematically doing both some destashing and NONstashing, if you know what I mean. If you don't know what I mean, what I mean is refraining from buying (much) at festivals and shops and online.
Also for quite a while, I was starting to wonder if I was ever really going to knit again. I have picked up the needles again, and I'm excited about it. But the yarn! The yarn! Too much.
I found this nice yarn in my stash:
...Black Water Abbey Irish worsted in Chestnut, which is ridiculously similar in color to the Sheplova Mushroom Peace Fleece I just used in my cardigan. I thought of selling it, but instead I have decided I will make it my challenge to find a sweater pattern that is so dissimilar to my Peace Fleece one that even having two chestnut brown cardigans will NOT seem excessive or stupid. I originally bought the yarn for making Brier from Rowan 36, just exactly like Margene's.
I'd rather my BWA yarn was a different color -- say Ocean or Bracken or Haw, since I have the fresh-off-the-needles Sheplova Mushroom PF cardi. However, I do think it's different enough to my Peace Fleece Central Park to allow me to stay on track. So it shall remain in the stash.
I talked myself right into that, didn't I?
Unless, of course, any of you has six skeins of Ocean or Bracken or Haw and want to make an even trade for six skeins of Chestnut..... Then I'm totally open to a trade.
And in browsing Ravelry last night, I totally know what my Rowan Magpie Oatmeal yarn is going to become, as soon as the pattern comes out. This. Could this become the new Plain Vanilla?
Well, my faith in humanity has been restored! Brown is good. ;)
Posted by: Kristen | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 12:44 AM
12:55 a.m., two gracious speeches later, a lot of exhilaration, and fatigue. The linked sweater is gorgeous, and so simple. How I want one.
Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 12:54 AM
NOW I want one.
Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 12:55 AM
I love the yarn. I love the cardis. Both of them.
Posted by: Cheryl S. | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 01:08 AM
Did you say that you were browsing Ravelry? OR am I on the wrong blog.
Posted by: sandy | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 06:01 AM
Well, you talked yourself into a good choice anyway.
I love looking at the pictures on Ravelry - so much so, that I've never gotten around to entering anything myself. Always get distracted by all the shiny objects...
Posted by: gayle | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 06:18 AM
Briar is one of my most worn Cardigans. It's so different from your CPH. I love the sweater you linked to, too!!
Posted by: margene | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 07:22 AM
Lmao with Sandy, you browsing ravelry...and yes I love both sweaters. I think I will have to put aside some of the Christmas knitting That I mentioned on my blog this morning and start another selfish sweater...LOL.
Posted by: ann | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 07:25 AM
Two beautiful sweaters. It will be fun to watch your progress. I am betting you have already swatched for each.
Posted by: Jean E. | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 07:30 AM
I was wondering if you would every knit another plain vanilla pullover. In oatmeal no less.
Posted by: CindyCindy | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 07:39 AM
Did you check Ravelry to see if anyone had a different color of that yarn who wanted to trade?
Posted by: Carrie | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 08:32 AM
You might try contacting BWA - I am fairly certain that she has done color swaps before... They are off to Stitches right now, so there may be a delay in answering.
Posted by: Cathy R | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Who are you and what have you done with my Norma?!
Posted by: Cookie | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 06:08 PM
Love the linked sweater with the garter stitch yoke. I am very jealous, because knitting without a pattern is beyond me.
Posted by: Judy M | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 08:58 PM
Thanks for the great yarn suggestions!
Posted by: kathy b | Thursday, November 06, 2008 at 01:10 PM