The usual
I cast on for a hat last night - two-color brioche in the round! How exciting! - using my Malabrigo. At 64 stitches on size 7's, it fit perfectly, but was not as dense as I desired. Of course, I have no 16 inch circular needles in either size 5 or 6. I have a size 4... somewhere. I am saddened. I must now either buy another needle now (oh how I want to!) or wait until next week (both Yarnzilla and Amazing Threads are having sales) and hope I run into a discounted needle.
I'm knitting a sock that is cute and the right size, but it keeps outwitting me. It's making me forget yarn overs that I fail to notice for eight rows, and then have to drop down and pick up teeny-tiny stitches in a lace pattern. Oy.
I am trying to talk myself out of buying the yarn for the embroidered jacket AGAIN. See, Bea Ellis is having a sale on Falk - 20% off - and I picked out perfect colors from the colorcard and I can't stop thinking about this sweater! Maybe I should think about my huge stash, or the fact that I'd have to alter the pattern in order for it to fit me (it goes up to a 43 inch bust, which I will never have unless I get a boob reduction surgery). Chances are I'll just sit and think of how pretty it is.
I went to stitch and bitch at Insomniac Beads (best SnB location ever!) last night, and pretty much drooled on Nicole's fair isle skirt. Oh, how I want one! It's glorious.
So, as you see, the usual: needing needles, being thwarted by patterns, and wanting yet more yarn, with a sprinkle of project lust.
Tipper @ 5:39 AM * link
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