Ummm, well, duh.
Last night two events merged allowing me a little happy experience after work. Thursdays are Windsor Button's late night (open until 7 p.m., woohoo!), and it also happened to be my payday. I had finished the stitching on my cross-stitch and felt like I could go and get some Soak and look around.
As if I would actually stop and just look?
I picked up Classic Elite booklet 9092 (Autumn 2008), which has the pattern for the Portland Tweed Vest, and a skein of Dream in Color Smooshy for a fine gauge Red Scarf project [scarf... there has to be a better way of writing this without repeating the word scarf over and over and over again. scarf.]. I didn't get around to starting the vest last night, but I packed a couple of skeins of yarn with me in the morning and sat around drinking coffee and swatching.
I think the world is coming to an end. I don't normally swatch for anything! But I'm hoping this time around that I will get instead of the 19 stitch/4 inches a gauge that is either a tad tighter and make the 38 inch size or a tad looser and make the 35 inch size. I don't really care which way it goes as long as my row gauge is reasonably on target for once, because this is a small top and I am pretty much smack between the two sizes. So, I have a double size swatch, which will hopefully prove one way or the other what size I need to knit.
I've given myself 1.5 months to do this, which for me is a short amount of time. I tend to flake out and set things aside, so I'm hoping the deadline will help me stay on target! Now if I had just done that with the stripy socks with the afterthought heels. I've been at the toe of the first sock for eons! Maybe with 1.5 months for that project it would get done too!
