Unraveled

I woke yesterday, determined to have a better knitting day.  And I did though it was not in any way how I thought it would go.  

I knit on the grey sweater.  I knit on the teal.  My hands and my heart were not in it.  I have been spending too much time playing stupid games and that does affect my knitting.  

I decided to frog another longstanding WIP.  I had been waffling.  It is lovely yarn but it is a fingering weight and I simply do not feel the love for that weight of yarn.  I have some truly gorgeous teal buttons for with it, and as I was unraveling it, I was planning to start over making the same sort of thing.  Cardigan.  Buttons. Long sleeves.  

And then I got side tracked.  Most delightfully, effervescently side tracked.  

As I unraveled, I thought about the yarn and all the different things I had dreamed of doing with it.  I thought about a yarn I had planned to use with it at one time.  

That yarn is some old Socks That Rock in the colourway Alina.  At one time, I was going to make an Elton sweater with the teal and this yarn.  I used to have a striped swatch.  Since I was now going to double the teal,  I wondered if the Alina could be effective held double.  

Mixed results.  Bottom is the teal yarn doubled.  Then a strand of Alina and a strand of the teal.  Then two strands of Alina.  I searched my favourites to look for a pattern where I could use the two yarns.  Oddly enough, I did not feel like stripes.  The pattern that caught my eye was the Geddy Tee.  I thought I would try that.

Magic happened.  Well to my eyes at least.  The squares are done single stranded.  Not strictly to the pattern but I am going to run with it.  Singles for the squares.  Double for the body knitting.  Good to go.

And that was my day.  Odd that it went from unraveling to starting something new and fun.