Cool your jets!

What a monster I've created!  And all by myself.  Last week, I was browsing through the knitting mags I have - a stash all their own.  I had realized that I was, more and more, doing my pattern research online and wanted to see what I was missing/forgetting.  I found so many great patterns in these pages...I wanted to make them all plus the ones I was finding online.  Of course, I know I can't but that didn't keep me from starting a little of everything.  Here's the story for this week...

Deborah Newton's Buttercream Jacket.  I loved this when I first saw it and it still got me excited.  So, with a lot of pretty pink Geisha on hand, I swatched and it was perfect!  Geisha is an acrylic with a little mohair blended in and is a lot softer and airier than the yarn intended.  So this is less buttercream, more mousse.  It's been my favorite knit this week.  Probably because it's been a fast knit.

 I did actually finish a project.  It was nip and tuck and it's still not completely dry this morning.  But Nefertiti was willing to risk pneumonia for my art.  This is supposed to be a beret but I stupidly impatiently left out a section which made that distinction.  It's a beret on her small head, though, isn't it?  Maybe for a child?  I love the yarn - a handspun - and the color...it would brighten any fall day. This is Rose Window by Anne Kuo Lukito.

But here are some that have only the barest of starts.  Really barely there is this stole, Herb Garden by Linda Choo.  I have twice as much of this pretty green toned lace weight wool as I need.   Maybe I'll make two.  Gotta get this one done first!

And  a little more committed is this version of La Parisienne beret by Caroline Dlugy-Hegwer.  I had a couple of odd balls of sock yarn.  I'm not sure there's enough color definition because of the self-stripiness of the one yarn.  But the blue bits are pretty.  And it's an easy pattern for a little carry-along project.

And I got a few more inches accomplished on that 1953 stocking.  It's getting seriously long now.

Last, my White Lightning sock part 2.  It's cast on and the cuff is knit. Now, I'm ready for the fun part.  I think that this, the stocking and the beret above will be my projects to take on our upcoming trip to the Grand Canyon.  Not that I expect to get a lot of knitting done.  But it's good to be prepared.  There may not be much of a stash post for the next couple of weeks.