The Next Big Thing

I did not knit much yesterday.  I want to finish the sweater but ribbing is ribbing.  It can sometimes suck up your will to live.

I treated myself to doing a gauge swatch for the next thing.

This is one of the yarns I dream about.  

It is Mirasol Hacho.  Way way back I knit mittens with some and I fell in love.  One of the things that happens in yarn stores is that a colour just doesn't work for people and it sits.  Occasionally it sits forever.  I often felt compelled to give these yarns a home.  This Hacho is one of these.  

I love this yarn.  It is spring, bouncy, stretchy, lively.  It was great for mittens.  It will be great for a sweater.  I always knew that I wanted something drapey with this yarn.  It's a very colour busy yarn so the garment needs to be simple.  I love Joji Locatelli's  Lispstick pattern and I think that is what I will do with this.  

Hacho is not the gauge needed for the pattern so there is math in  my near future.  That's  okay.  It's a pattern I have knit before so I am familiar with what I need to do to get the fit I want.  Yes.  This is my Itty Bitty gauge swatch.  I usually do a row or two more but it's good enough to tell me what I needed to know.