yes the afghan is still in the works. kind of.
i'm liable to have any number of projects up in the air at any given moment, and then add a few to that when i step into an unfamiliar yarn shop.
familiar ones are the ones where i hem and haw upwards of an hour and have fifteen ideas flit through my head, though most of them are not aesthetically appealing in the least. to me or the visually impaired, ideas loud enough to startle the hard of hearing, ideas that would work up like mottled camouflage. damn those variegated yarns.
have gone on an off tangent, shrug vest bolero kimono coat crop sweater binge. flipped up a little shrug from some off white cotton i had laying around in a stitch i'd wanted to try. i thought, well hm. that went fast.
and so cannabilized another project for some cotton fleece. the red turquoise greyish dusty blue vest is probably under protective custody as we speak, hiding from me. i hate it, it's ugly and i kind of think it's cute all at the same time. no ambition to tuck in all those loose ends and put a decent edge on it.
then there's this
a tarty little vest from a back issue of interweave crochet i probably purchased last time i was in alaska. (i go seriously crazy in this yarn shop in palmer, it's like i enter another dimension. the snow gets to me and makes me think i need to get busy in case i'm anywhere and the heat fails. or some primal thing like that.)
and you know you are some kind of weird nerdy freak when a title like "schoolmarm vest" gets you kind of excited. really.
i was too overwhelmed the first time i went in there this afternoon, and had to come home, write an article about cucumbers (of all things!) and get my winter 07 interweave and go back to tackle the yarn selection.
while i was looking, i totally lusted after the takhi new tweed. it's freaking gorgeous, muted rich natural gemmy kind of colors with a matte gold strand in there. class-say, i think, but not the right gauge for the pattern.
i'm so gullible, i got a sympathy gift for the afghan project- a ball of mochi plus by crystal palace. merino! yay! color progression! yay! kitty face on the label! OMG can you say YAY!
(20% nylon. boo. but there's a KITTY on the LABEL!)
i carried around some wool for a while earlier too, something a lot like cascade's ecological wool (which i'm working with right now, it was another alaska purchase, i think the day after xmas 20% off bug bit me hard that day. i didn't know they flew so well in such cold...) but it wasn't quite as soft. wrong gauge, wrong project.
but then i thought. then i thought, schoolmarm vest, tweed. tweed vest. marm tweed. school vest. and went into my inner place, approved it.
got a smashing jo sharp silkroad dk tweed. it's pea shoot which is a nice pea green with a little indigo. the other light green was too yellow. the lavender was tempting but not enough balls, and the magenta was HOT but there was only one ball. there was a greyish oatmeal that had a little brown, a little red/orange here and there and it was so much prettier than my description sounds. remorse, not enough balls of it. and i've got too much oatmeal yarn anyway. i wanted it though.
also found out about to be no more jo sharp in the u.s.? the company is not selling to the u.s. starting soon, unless my otherwise reliable yarn guide is somehow misinformed. stock up of that, and make some international hook-up connections for the jo sharp i suppose. or buy plane tickets to australia or new zealand. actually, the latter sounds nice...
so yes. a picture suite of the bolero binge should be upcoming. soon. like within a month.
