Knerdy Knitting
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It was hard to come up with a topic for this Project Friday.  Not because I haven’t been completeing projects — I think I’ve finished three different gifts in the last week — but because I haven’t been excited about any of the projects.  I already talked about the Dr Horrible wristers.  I already talked about the Snowflake hat.  (Which I really should rename because we all know snowflakes don’t have four points like the pattern has, but I digress.)  The only other projects I’ve been working on are a pair of Fetching and a very plain stockinette sock.  All in jewel tones and cool browns and purples.  Very appropriate to the time of year, and no doubt stylishly suited to the recipiants.

But.

I was getting tired out them.  So I started swatching some of my early handspun.  It’s from Abstract Fibers, in the fantastic colorway Chartreuse.  It’s all orange and rust and yellow and green.  I love it.  I love it so much I luff it.  With two Fs.  But I’m not casting anything new on until I finished my Christmas presents.  So I’m *swatching*, not knitting.

Ok, fine.  I’m knitting.  It’s so beautiful!  Even though I only have a few inches, I really enjoy knitting it and squishing it and petting it.  The pattern is the Yarn Harlot’s One Row Handspun Scarf, which works perfectly for the fluffy handspun yarn.

There are several conclusions we may draw from this.  One, that I need to be working on a project just for me sometimes.  I am not a completely charitable knitter.  Two, that I don’t knit just to turn out projects.  I am happiest when I enjoy the yarn I’m working with.  And three, that it may shock my sixteen-year-old self, but I like autumn colors more than winter colors.  Be still my screaming gothy heart.