I am making pretty good progress on my Christmas present project — I have to say, though, that it is handsome but dull. (Unlike its recipient, who is handsome and interesting.) So, in order to relieve the monotony, I swatched another Christmas present, which I can in fact show, since I already asked that recipient if the color was all right. This is the Falling Leaves scarf from Scarf Style. It is quite a complicated little thing — the chart looks like a Rorschach blot, bits sticking out all over everywhere. Still, it comes out like this,
which is quite nice. The yarn is Filatura di Amigo Cashmere/Seta, a lovely squishy merino/silk/cashmere blend, that I got from Joy, who was de-stashing.
So, two new projects, on top of my Ostrich Plume blanket and Beginner’s Triangle, and a Multi-Directional Scarf that was supposed to be using up the last bits of my Silk Garden #88 but stalled when I realized that it wasn’t long enough and I haven’t found any more of this now-discontinued color yet. And still, my mind kept wandering …
This is Jaeger Shetland Aran in Charcoal Tweed, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I told myself that I’d just feel it. Then I told myself I’d just hold it for a little while.
Then I just swatched it, to see how it worked up.
And last night, I couldn’t sleep for some reason. I watched the first part of "The Virgin Queen" on Masterpiece Theatre, went to bed, tossed and turned, then at about two o’clock found myself casting on for Cinxia.
Lesson: Sleep deprivation is hazardous to the WIP pile. Still, I’m really liking those little colored nubs in amongst the gray tweed….
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