Psychotically Sane

I finished the camo longies and neglected to take a picture of Skyler in them today. I was too busy finishing a cotton yarn swatch. Yes. I didn’t take pictures of a project because I wanted to finish a 20 stitch by 15 row fucking swatch. Seriously? Can I be a big loser?

And now that I have no current project I’m in the process of knitting (unless you count two WIP’s that are MOSTLY finished, but still need some minor tweaking before I can consider them to be completely finished), I have no clue what is next on my queue. I have some GORGEOUS jade cotton yarn I want to knit with. But no clue what to do. Newborn longies? (Thanks to the damn new CPSIA guidelines, I can’t sell them like I intended) Hat? Scarf? Matching set? (might not have enough yarn to do this. Only have about 380-ish yards and it’s a custom colorway so no chance of buying more. Not sure exactly how much yarn I will need for a matching set, and I don’t want to do just a hat or just a scarf.) or something else? HELP! Being cotton, it actually washed up really nicely and is soft. Not sickeningly soft like wool, but it’s nice and soft. I’m thinking something in the newborn sense that I can have just in case I ever get hired for newborn sessions (possible three might get. But nothing set in stone yet. People who live in Nashville bow down to Sears and JcPenny’s for their portraits. -barf-). There is nothing cuter than a 5 day old baby snuggled in a beautifully knitted blanket or snuggled deep in a knitted baby wrap.

I did get some knitting related project completed tonight. I dyed up a small 1/4 ounce of my merino wool roving a little over a week ago and finally drafted and spun it up tonight. I have maybe 3 yards of yarn, but I had to see how well it spun. I’m in heaven. Pencil roving spins like a dream and now I have some more yarn to throw in with my “left-overs”. I think they will be fun to make a hudson hat with. I also finally tied up a hank that has been sitting on my niddy noddy for about two weeks. I’m going to save it like that until I’m ready to knit with it. Tomorrow night I’m going to set the twist in my sample yarn and start my next project. Which now I want to use the yarn my sister hand-spun and hand-dyed for me (seriously? definitely top of the list for best christmas presents ever. This past Christmas was perfect) and knit Skyler a new hat and scarf. And then again I’m led to wondering whether I will have enough yarn for it. Dammit.

Tomorrow I will decide on a project. I can’t start on anything tonight seeing as it’s now 11:30pm and I have to wake up in roughly 6 and a half hours. Crap….

And before I forget. The yarn I want to knit with. Maybe it will help with ideas? And the yarn is a much more vibrant color. I killed the color with an unfortunate white balance issue.

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