Interesting yarn and pattern combinations.

I feel like I have ten thousand things to talk about and if I am not careful, they will all spill out at once.  I will attempt to keep on track.

I'm not quite where I hoped to be on my cream and white sweater but I am in a good place.  I am almost at the point where I need to decide if the ribbing is going to be cream or white.  There is lots of both yarns.  This is where the top will become cream with white stripes or white with cream stripes.  It's a conundrum, but a fun one.

Friday I talked about looking at yarn in a different way.  A few years ago I did a stash dive and some yarns spoke to me. They actually screamed at MD but nicely.  I saw magic.  I started knitting them into a Starting Point shawl by Joji Locatelli.  I frogged it because I will never use a shawl like that no matter how beautiful it was.  And it was beautiful.  Magic happened when I saw the yarns together and that feeling has never left me.  

So rich and striking.  I have been searching for the right pattern to keep them together for a while now.  I have 5 colours to use and many patterns use more or less.  Five is awkward, but it is not negotiable.  And I am not interested in colourwork for these yarns.  I don't have any single one of them in quantity to play main yarn.   

I have also been looking at my bookshelves lately too. It's nice to do that when my hands are done for the day.  There are so many good things in my knitting library.  Stitch dictionaries of all sorts, pattern books, all kinds of things fibre and craft related,  that fire up my brain, sending my thoughts pinging hither and thither.  I came across a couple of old crochet garment books.  These are not the granny stitch crochet garments that are sweeping the Fibre arts world at the moment.  They go a step farther to make really lovely sweaters in crochet, a far step beyond a double crochet.  

One of them is this one.

Do you see it?  

I have always loved this vest.  I think it will work for my gorgeous pile of yarn. 

It's a shape that is simple and could easily be converted to knitting.  I could just crochet it too but the things I need to do to make it fit me nicely might be easier for me to do in knitting.  YMMV of course but I think my brain is more flexible in knitting. 

The pattern asks for 6 colours but I think 5 will work because of the changes I need.  I am going to colour up a colour placement chart like the book shows for the original design with the changes I need in place.  I will also think about sleeves because I would really like to use up the yarn.  

Anyway that is what I was dreaming of this weekend.  It was fun.  Exhilarating even.  Today I am going to work to getting the Lusk cream and white tee done.

Which reminds me.  Rebecca Clow just put out the perfect new little summer sweater/ vest/ tee for summer.  Check out her Sollas pattern.