How did that happen?

With five other active sweater knits, all of which I am eager to finish and wear, I have no business starting anything else.  And yet here I am.  And to think, I was concerned about becoming a monogamous project knitter.

I am knitting the Briggs and Little Regal that I said I had a plan for.  I do have a general plan, but in some ways, my needles seem to be leading me to an entirely new place. 

I saw Ann Budd's Cait sweater when the pattern was published.  I love the clean fit of it.  I love the simplicity of the colouwork.  You don't need tons of colourwork for a big impact. And I felt pretty sure that the fit of the sweater would be great considering my constant referrals and use of her books, A Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns, A Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns and The Knitter's Handy Book of Top Down Sweater Patterns.  I use these books all the time.  

The problem is that I don't want to knit such a lightweight sweater as Cait at the moment.  I want this simple design idea in my Regal yarn. So I pulled out The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns and I am using the design dimensions from the modified drop shoulder sweater.  Or rather, that is where I started.  

All of a sudden the shoulder shaping from my Hacho yarn project popped into my head and my needles sort of wandered that way, only I had a full back width cast on.  Joji starts Lipstick, the pattern I am knitting with my Hacho, with the shoulders on a provisional cast on,  joined at the neckline after some shaping is begun.  I goofed around and that is when it hit me.  

What I was doing was the general back shaping from Ysolda Teague's Anyday Sweatshirt  . It is a bit hard to see it here but it is.  Interesting.  I am going to keep going here and see what I get..

I have no idea what this thing is going to turn out to be, but so far it is an intriguing journey.