Kiss My Knits!

About 1200 yards of earflap red yarn arrived on my doorstep today. Hopefully it will last me until the mill sees fit to send out my main order, which I’ve been told should hopefully be happening in the next week or so. At the very least, I can now accommodate all the people who e-mailed me last week for kits. I’d had to put them off until I was stocked back up. I may yet have to halt kit orders again, but at least everybody whom I told to come back later can be taken care of.

Today I was packing up hats when a visitor arrived. I’d been about to sew the pompom onto a 23″ hat bound for a guy in the Midwest, but got sidetracked with my guest. After she left, I couldn’t find the hat anywhere. How does a Jayne hat just disappear? It’s baffling! I feel like Coleridge and his visitor from Porlock, although my visitor was welcome. So instead of knitting for myself tonight, I’ll be finishing up another Jayne hat to stay on schedule. That will surely be enough to make the amazing disappearing Jayne hat reappear. This principle works a lot around here – buy a new gizmo and the old gizmo shows up. It’s the same way we’ve wound up with three digital thermometers and about 20 tapestry needles. Go figure.

I’ve got some non-Jayne projects to do, but I’m also trying to figure out what my next “just for me” project should be. Probably socks. I’m building up some hand dyes, and kind of feeling like I need to either use them or sell them. The two skeins pictured were dyed in 2006, so I reckon one of those should be the next to use. I look at them now and think “I’d make those richer in saturation now” but am trying hard to resist the temptation to overdye. Not everything has to be just perfect, nor is there a “just perfect” outcome for everything. Although a dark wash over the one on the left… Hmmm…

Any thoughts? Column A or column B? Patterns? Decisions, decisions.