I've got the world's last 2000 yards of Noro Kochoran #46, a discontinued colorway: I won't tell you where I am in Massachusetts, so you don't come steal it. I swatch and can't decide.
I've got the last nasty cold of 2008: ditto. I hawk and blow and sit down to rest.
Without, yet, the energy to commit yarn to needle, to begin a sweater/coat with this Kochoran, I wander ravelry, choosing and rejecting, and rechoosing just the pattern I want, and one I can have in an instant not a return U.S. mail. I'm both too tired and sniffly to knit and too impatient to wait for olde-fashioned presses (such as SchoolHouse) to pack up and post a tiny pattern.
Tonight, the options I hover among are "The Dream Coat," one that is perhaps too frisky and "many-colored" for this Josephina, though the vertical lines and the mitered squares are both appealing:
And the Adult Surprise Jacket, that ubiquitous Baby jacket of Elizabeth Zimmerman, grown up by popular demand. My reservations on doing the ASJ have to do with the mess I made of the one BSJ I knitted a year or so ago: I couldn't make sense of the stitch marker placement for the decreases, so didn't have a precise set of lines, one of the trademarks of the sweater. Were I home, Hickory or Suze could explain to me in a heartbeat. 
But I'm somewhere in Massachusetts, uncertain and tired.
And there's "Imogen," even the name--especially the name?--I love, another vertical (knit side-to-side) jacket:
And "Tilt," a cardigan with vertical lines below (sort of like the base of the Einstein coat), with wonderful diagonal yoking, and i-cord seaming :
That's sort of where I am in Massachusetts. If anyone is reading this and has a shareable opinion, please share (ldb4@cornell.edu).
I probably won't start knitting until the weekend, as, when I've got the zip and zing, I am setting up my schedule of working in the mornings, on a sabbatical grant book project, going swimming and to Weight Watchers; swinging by WEBS to, daily, not spend a penny. And catching my granddaughters, with six other three-year-olds, doing third position, tap, boogie-woogie, and tumbling, at "Dawn's School of Dance," the hottest show in Pioneer Valley on any given Monday night. I'm going to Boston overnight, to see my daughter before she flies to Seattle for a week of interviews for next year's residency programs; will pop down to Connecticut for lunch with Me Mum. And keep getting organized about my "real" work, with a library carrel at Smith College across the street (do I give my whereabouts away?).
Remember, opinions please!
2 comments:
how did you get away with out a hug and a meal? my sugggestions, regarding the knitting.. Adult suprise will get boring, there are a lot of stitches for the baby one, but it's good mindless knitting if you need to do that. The one that's long,looks like miters and little diamonds... uses your scraps for that, I have a great book on how to, but you are there and i am here... the last one looks a bit like a sweater you all ready have. my thought... how about something lacy looking, perhaps a vest... no arms!
Hey Lynda! Sorry I missed you before you left! Your life in Mass sounds absolutely blissful!
Love the yarn and would probably pair it up with Imogene. The soft colors seem to go nicely with it's soft shape and the vertical lines are nice without being too severe. It's hard to tell the sweater's structure on the model but if it's too loose or baggy, I'd be tempted to knit a belt to go with it to cinch around your waist, just to give it some shape.
I'm glad your family is well and the grandkids are dancing up a storm :)
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