Well, knitting friends, I’ve gone back and forth, like this:

I’m pretty sick of stockinette and want to start a new project.

Don’t do that- you’ll never finish these sweaters!

But I really want to cast-on with the Cascade Eco Duo.

If you just focus and spend your time with the sweaters, they’ll be done and you know you are going to love them.

I know, but….

Forget it. Just stick with your sweaters. Stick with it.

Yeah. Just when I think I’ve decided something, the other voice starts making a lot of sense. So there I sat with the last point, sticking with my sweaters.

And then I decided, screw it. I’m casting on. Laura mentioned a hat with snowflakes, and I think that’s what I’m going to do. I’ll knit the background with the luscious hazelnut Cascade Eco Duo, and the snowflakes with the vanilla Eco Duo. As Laura said, the snowflakes should really pop against that beautiful brown.

And then, if I have enough yarn left, I think I’ll knit these mitts – I’ll use the vanilla as the background, since I’ll have much more of it left, and the owls with the brown, assuming I have some left.

Also, one kind of embarrassing confession: when the current batch of his homemade pickles is gone, we (which really means I) will have eaten 30 pounds of pickles this summer. Yikes. When you put it that way, I am a piggie!

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