I switched projects again yesterday. Although more linen will be here today, and I still haven’t finished the cardigan, the lovely Fern Lace was tossed aside for some Hillswick Lumber.
Wait a sec. That sounds as if I was called by the fair isle’s siren song. That’s not quite what happened. I’ve been lusting after a new project. Symptoms: adding projects to my Ravelry queue; trolling yarn stores, both online and local; beginning the convoluted rationalizations required for a major stash acquisition.
To stop myself, I pulled out all my stash
(ok, all my yarn stash) (well, except for sock yarn) and spread it on the floor. And there’s quite a bit there. Sweater-sized portions of Cascade 220, Sierra, and Harrisville Shetland, all the yarn for Feitelson’s Sandwater Jumper; tank-sized lots of misc. cotton; two shoe boxes of leftover Shetland, with no more than 400 yds of any color; and many leftover skeins of DK-to-worsted wool, perfect for hats, scarves, mittens, or perhaps an afghan.
I can knit for a year or more without buying any yarn.
Looking at this pile o’ yarn, I was rightly ashamed of shopping. So I convinced myself that finishing one of my UFO’s would be just penance. Irish Moss is almost out of yarn, which means I have to spin more … which will happen, but not today. Fern Lace has already been ruled out, because it’s not summer here any longer. [Looks like we'll have plenty of cool weather for Lisa when she gets here.] So Hillswick was elected.
To cure the itch for something new, I found this video showing how to hold both yarns in my left hand. I practiced all day, but it was annoying. I kept having to re-wrap and re-tension the yarn. I’m looking for the Aha! moment today or perhaps tomorrow.
