Startitis...

Spring must be the time in which a person's thoughts turn to starting new projects.   I have several on the needles now and am not allowing myself to start another one (a polar bear) until at least ONE project is done.

At the moment there are two active sock projects, a throw, and a baby cardigan that is actually going to fit a 2 year old.  

The throw is a good contemplative project to which not much attention has to be paid so it gets picked up and put down depending on how many paths my mind is winding at once.   As it has a June deadline, my mind should be focusing more on the throw....

One of the pairs of socks is a lovely rose color.  It is warm and happy.  The second pair of socks is vibrant and lovely and the colorway sang to me from the computer screen.  I had to have it and begin it as soon as the skein came in the mail.   This pair of socks is my traveling project right now.  The pattern emerging is addictive and one of those that I knit quickly down one more needle as the bus is coming to see what will happen.  This is the same as a mystery novel that is a little predictable but exciting anyway.

One of the other projects is a cardigan for Rory.   I did not find a pattern I wanted to use so I ran swatch numbers through Sweater Wizard.   The finished size will fit Rory when she is 2 rather than now.  I am okay with that as I do not want to rip it out.

The yarn is no longer available and came from the center of the stash.  I have several colorways but really, really wanted to use this colorway as the blues, greens, and oranges looked so cheerful.

The yarn in the skein....

The sweater is coming along nicely.   I chose to do the cardigan top-down to make it easier for the color bands to work out nicely.

This way this yarn is dyed to make little floralish patterns is one of the best uses of math ever.  When I used the rose colorway, I was enchanted.   I bought what I could find as the yarn was already out of production when I first tried it.

This should be an easy project.  It is one, though, for which very careful manipulating of the colorway to start the sleeves and the body is necessary.

Close-up of what the yarn looks like knit to the correct gauge.

 Gauge is always important...but with these yarns it is crucial in order to get the pattern that the yarn is dyed to make.

While the strips will be different widths in the sleeves, the body, and the yoke it should look nice.  I am thinking...pearl buttons?