Remember the pretty picture I posted yesterday of a lovely red sock in the Gull Wing pattern from Socks3 reclining on my leg on the train? Forget it. That sock wannabe no longer exists. The needles were pulled from its fragile existence on the way home last night and the yarn reclaimed. I spent the trip starting another sock, this time with a picot edge and when I got off the train I was planning on adding a diamond pattern on the cuff from my pi shawl. Worked until I sat down with said sock last night to relax a bit and knitted the cast on edge together with the live stitches to make that nifty cuff. It was 3 rows past this point that the needles were yanked again. I then performed an exhaustive search of my sock pattern queue and came up with a bunch of socks I would love to make, except they all wanted a sport weight yarn. Yeah yeah, I remember the nice Louet Gems that I bought when out with Cassie at Purl except I was too lazy to get out the swift and wind it into a ball, not to mention I now had this started skein of Kroy and I better do something with it. I cast on this morning for Priscilla’s Dream Socks from IK and after my commute in, I have 1.5" of 2×2 rib. Excellent commuting knitting project.
Okay, so I still don’t have pictures of my MA haul because I was distracted by the sock thing last night. There must be some block that I’m fighting regarding photographing the stuff. Part of me wants to be super creative, take the stroller picture and do an image map to link to individual pictures of the stuff. Yeah, in my vast amount of free time. Its not like the haul is neatly put away and I have to pull it all out to photograph it. Yeah. Not likely. Its in the corner of the living room at a 3+ ft height to keep the short people out of the fiber. I saw Kat fiddling with the Sheep Shed peach colored merino from its hanging place on the stroller. I do have this picture though. My mother took it on Monday while I spun on the back of her boat as Kat napped. I love the little wheel. It is a great addition to the collection. BTW, the monkeys slept very nicely on the boat Sunday night and other than fishing a pacifier out of the Hudson River, the time was uneventful. My father deemed this little wheel: cute.
Having answered the questionnaire yesterday regarding favorite colors/palette and all that and not really knowing an answer, I frittered away some of my ME time last night googling a way to find my colors. Based on my hair/skein/eye color, I’m an autumn. I was really (to borrow a phrase) gobsmacked by this. Me? Who used to own only two colors? Black & White. Autumn? Could explain the recent pull by the oranges, not to mention the initial color venture away from the BW, brown. He-he. Earth tones. I can dig it.
There was chatter yesterday on the EZasPi list about doing Rogue. This has been on my ToDo list for a while now and I can swear I had earmarked the blue Shetland Aran from eBay for it. My new found color palette told me the blue wasn’t really my color. 
I did what any crazy would do. I ordered more yarn. In this case, 14 skeins of Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks in Cranberry. I nearly got the Briggs & Little Heritage that I see is being kitted up for Rogue, but I’m really unfamiliar with that yarn. The price is certainly attractive, but I didn’t want to commit to a sweater out of an unknown. If anyone has worked with it, please let me know what you think of it. While was ordering, I seem to remember adding a few skeins of sock yarn to round it up to the free shipping level. Only sane right? I’d like to make the cardigan, but would love to knit it in the round. I’m seriously considering {gulp} steeks. I might just try that on a swatch first though. I’m not completely nuts you know.
Craft on.
