Maybe It’s Not Project Avoidance

Wednesday night I started this:

A rib beanie from the greasy Corriedale Clip wool. In fact, it did have some cables, but last night I changed my mind, ripped it out and started again. These beanies (I’m making a pair) need to be plain an unobjectionable to anyone with finicky tastes (the beau), because I plan to put them with camping/outdoor gear. Being water repellant, I reckon they’ll go with our drizabone coats really well (when I get one to go with the beau’s), because the coats only have a hood and don’t keep your ears warm.

Yesterday I also started this:

It’s going to be a curly whirly. Yes, I said I was going to make a woven scarf out of these yarns, but it kept whispering “crochet curly whirly” at me and I’ve learned not to ignore yarn that has a mind of its own.

So far I’m a bit dubious about the results. The curls are a bit on the small and frenetic side, wheras I had more of a voluptuous swirling in mind.

Why this sudden fever of startitis? Well… I don’t think it’s project avoidance. I suspect a more sinister motive. Back at the end of Feb I posted a photo of my stash with ‘x’s over the yarn I’d used or given away. Well, two more months have passed and I want to do that again.

I didn’t include wips in the stash photo. They’re wips, not stash. So if I start a whole lot of projects in the next few days … you get the idea?

Of course, it could also have to do with the beau and I being a bit sick, too. My brain has been too fuddled for complicated knitting, and the ribbing and crochet has been soothing. But the evidence favours the stash cheating strategy, because I also removed this from the stash:

Viking Tree Runes hat to go with some mittens I made from wool I bought in Orkney two years ago. It’s in 4ply, and will require some charting, so I can’t claim it’s easy knitting to sooth the fuddled brain. (Ironically, I can’t even see the yarn in my stash photo as it’s hidden under something else, so there’s nothing to cross out, anyway!)

3 thoughts on “Maybe It’s Not Project Avoidance

  1. Beautiful mittens..
    Where did the corriedale greasy come from? Great idea for beanies (or poodle jumpers..)

  2. The greasy yarn comes from The Corriedale Clip in Murrumbateman just outside the ACT. I bought it at a wool shop in Canberra.

    I’ve also got some non-greasy coloured 8ply that I bought directly from the ‘farm’ and how I got it is quite a story… which I ought to blog about.

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