Time to knit

Waving at Sigrun.  Yes.  Still here, still knitting!  At the far end of town, across from the two ball diamonds and community center aka the grey barn.  Second last house in town!  Stop for coffee any time.  That goes for all of you.  Stop by anytime.  

I had a busy weekend, though to the world looking on, I am certain it looked very, very quiet.  My head was so full of finishing things and putting them away.  Not knitted item finishing but tasks that I started the week before.  

Like the big dig.  I sorted and ordered and put and stirred in the yarn to my complete and utter joy.  I shopped my stash and took out just a few things.  And that meant I had to bag them up and get them ready for knitting.  

 I pulled out some Briggs and Little Sport.  

 I have two possible patterns that this yarn might become.  One is a variation on Andrea Mowry's Traveller.  I would knit it from the top down because I can.  Or the very interesting POV pullover by OlaLa Knitworks.  I do have an alternate set of yarns to use for the second pattern so we shall see what happens.

I pulled out my Plotulopi.  I love, love, love the Mountain Forest sweater from the last Knitty.  I knew I would knit it the moment I saw it.  I debated getting a few more colours so I could follow the pattern exactly.  That colour blend is just completely perfect.  But I have so much and I just could not buy more. (Whodda thunk it)  I do have two gradients of colours that I am going to make work.  I have lots of the body colour as well.  This is a knit I am looking forward to.  Working with Plotulopi will be interesting.

The other thing I pulled out is some of the lovely heathered brown Tove.  It will be used with my planned Kauni sweater a la the blue and white cowl.  I already had some lovely toasty oatmeal Tove out for it, but see what you think.

 This is my original choice but the more I looked at it, the more I doubted.

This soft heathered brown matches the soft dusty purples and blues and greens of the Kauni.  It blends rather than contrasting.  I usually go for a strong contrast, but I think this will be better, gentler.

I also did some patching of garments but I'm  going to talk about that tomorrow.  It's time to knit.