The start of All The Things.

Somewhere between Friday and this morning, I managed to do a lot of knitting.  

I completely ripped back the first go, and reknit on 3 mm needles. This was mid afternoon yesterday, and right now I am just about to where I can split for the sleeves.  I knit a few rounds on my green coat too, not so many as anyone but me notices, but a few rounds a day will get it done faster than if I never knit on it.

I had a talk with Cassie and she would like a zipper on this sweater.  I don't know why but it was very important to her.  So that changes everything about the way that this sweater begins.  I restarted with an icord cast on.  And then I was stuck.  How do you make a nice smooth knit as you go icord around the slope of a crew style neckline?

I  had to do some thinking and ended up sorting it out on the internet via Knitting Help.com and Very Pink.  

I've done icord before, this technique even.  I think the Oscillioscope Shawl uses it, and I knit one of those a long while ago.  It has always stayed in my mind as one of the loveliest edges I ever knit. I completely forgot how to get there.  

While I was discussing sweaters and Grade One with Cassie, Marcus came up and ask me to make him a Paw Patrol sweater for pre school. It is indeed his first year at preschool.  Carter too.  My sweet little boys are growing up so fast.  Sigh.  Marcus and Cassie love to wear the mittens I make them and I know this is a sweater Marcus will wear happily.  He wears the t-shirts and pj's he has all the time. He loves Paw Patrol and all his pup friends more than any other child ever loved a toy.  

So while I was knitting on Cassies pretty lavender blue sweater,  I had a lot of time to think about Marcus' request. 

I have a lot of sock yarn.

I don't have any plans to buy any sock yarn in the near future at all.  There is lots for whatever socks I need.  The only time I buy now, is when the sock yarn bin isn't interesting or when it doesn't have what I need for the kids or when I am particularly inspired by a colour or pattern of colour.  That is my story and I am sticking to it. Surely though, I have stuff to make a little boy sweater with an intarsia pup badge and striped Sock Arm sleeves in the colours of all his pups?

Yeah Not so much.

A good dig came up with these, and no royal blue at all for the main body of the sweater.  I thought about using Navy for the body of the sweater, but I only have enough navy for one measly pair of socks and it will take a bit more than that to do knit the whole body for that ever growing little boy torso.  I have tons of dark green sock yarn though.  Tons. And even of the coloured ones, the red here is a cotton sock yarn and the blue is really the wrong blue.  All I really had is the orange and the yellow.  I still need a pink, a bright green, an olive green (though I may have that down in there.  I have to dig again.), a green toned turquoise and a good wooly red.  That is a lot of sock yarn, I would have to buy.

And then I had an idea.  It might be a silly idea but I may have the materials to do it. It involves this.

And tomorrow''s blog post.

We shall see.