A good friend of mine decided she had too much yarn and gifted me a bag of Paton's Classic Merino in Rich Red. It ended up being 10 skeins worth, which is more than 2,000 yards.
I've decided that this is an opportune time to attempt the Rogue hoodie, and I've cast on, finished the under-hem, and have started the body. Here's the problem: one of the increase instructions is crazy and I am obviously not doing it correctly, because there's a little hole that I doubt I could fudge. So I'm trying to decide if I should frog it and make something else, but I really want to make this hoodie; it's so pretty.
To keep myself occupied on the knitting front, I have dug out all of my leftover sock yarns. Because I have such small feet (5.5 US at the end of a long day at the salt-lick with no water), I don't use as much yarn as a "normal" person would, so I always have a fair amount left on the ball when I finish a pair. I usually tell people that I could make a third sock out of the leftovers and that it's a pity that I don't have a third foot.
So, to remedy this problem, I dug out all of the leftovers and started working on the Sock Yarn Blankie from the Heathen Housewife. I can already see that this project is going to be ongoing for probably at least a decade at the rate I knit socks. It's not that I knit them slowly, but rather that I don't knit socks at a constant rate. It is this fact that will probably prevent me from finishing a decent-sized blanket any time soon.
On a non-knitting note, I got a really rather raging (I love alliteration) craving for ice cream tonight. I want to get something approximating that fabulous Red Velvet Cake flavor that they had at Publix, but since my only available "cash" was a Target gift card, I had to go there. They didn't have Red Velvet Cake...but they did have Spumoni, which I looked for a couple of weeks ago after a trip to Buca di Beppo's didn't yield any for me. So I got a box of that and some good ol' strawberry.
I'm now full of ice cream and plotting the errand exploits of tomorrow. But I have a question for any readers out there...if there are any at all... if I can't make the aforementioned hoodie with this large stash of red merino wool, which pattern would you recommend that I check out? I need to get on this whole sweater-making thing since I'll desperately need them in a few months. So what do you think? Any must-haves?
Have a good weekend all!
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