Resolutions
Wait long enough (though is an hour really that long) and have a stash of patterns and yarn big enough and the answer to a problem usually presents itself.
Last night after the most excellent 2 hours of Battlestar Galactica were over, I did a little digging in the patterns subdirectory on my hard drive (memo to self: save to cd for safety sake already) I tripped on the Knitty childHood pattern that I saved ages ago. While the sweater is not a top down in the round raglan, I do like the shape of it and it passed Miss K's approval test.
I toyed with the doing the sweater in a solid, but then it would be very much like Alex's sweater from last year. I have plenty of Cascade on hand, thanks to the current obsession with it, including some the Deb bought a while ago (color 7803) and had second thoughts about recently. (Which reminds me, I still owe you a check, don't I? Mail or Rhinebeck?) Anyway, I liked the whole color thing on the borders, sleeves and hood.
It was then my brain started trying to dig up a mental color card of the Cascade 220 colors. Heck, most nights at MY, I sit facing the wall o'220. I vaguely recalled a Quatro that might be good. So late this morning, as the folks were heading up to the boat to start the winterizing process and getting it ready to be pulled from the water, I piled the monkeys into the car and headed off to MY with a skein of 7803 in my purse. While the children colored (they remembered that the store had crayons from their very first visit there back in the spring and asked about them on the way), I fiddled with combinations of cascade. I found the perfect match. Quattro in 9440. Which coincidentally is the same color that I bought way way back in my first trip to MY during the Montclair yarn crawl with Deb. One ply of the Quattro is the same shade as the 220. How perfect can you get?
We stopped for lunch at a local pizzeria, Kat insisting on 'chicken nuggies', and now the monkeys are taking a nap. I'm now ready to get knitting.
Craft on!
sounds like a near perfect saturday so far! more perfect=knitting! (or even more perfect should be the rhinebeck trek!)
Posted by: Nancy J | October 07, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Those colors are PERFECT together. See? I knew that yarn was meant for you!
Posted by: --Deb | October 07, 2006 at 10:10 PM
Children have amazing memories about the most "necessary" things. Lucky woman to have the children cooperate with naps on top of a day at the LYS. I like the collar on that childs sweater. I can't wait to see Kat model it for us.
Posted by: Denise/CT | October 09, 2006 at 06:34 PM
Great colors - that's going to be an awesome sweater :o)
Posted by: JessaLu | October 11, 2006 at 09:25 AM