I have a serious bee in my bonnet to knit this sweater. I want this sweater. I am in love with this sweater. I must have it. It only takes three skeins of Wool-Ease Thick & Quick and three large buttons, so it’s definitely a project that falls under $20, which is a bargain for a sweater. If I make my own buttons with polymer clay, which is what I want to do, it drops to about $15 for the yarn. Bargain!

I know I said I wasn’t going to buy any more yarn until I finished the projects I keep putting off finishing and use up all the nice yarn I already have, but I don’t think I will be able to resist. Both Hobby Lobby and Joann’s has that yarn on sale this week, and I could do with a funky little jacket to wear out to a show about two weeks from now. I could easily finish this in two weeks.

What colors to make it? I like the colors in the photo a lot, but the teal color has been discontinued. I’m going to have to pick other colors. My rational side is telling me to pick sedate and neutral colors so I can wear it with anything. My inner child is demanding a nice bright obnoxious color combination. My inner girly-girl wants pink. It’s so hard to choose! If I were the gambling sort, I’d bet on the inner child winning, but with the exception that the colors have to be somewhat close to natural and not too neon. I really would like to make this with that bouclé Kenno sent me from New Zealand, with it’s nice rich earth-tones, but I want to make sure the pattern is correct, that it fits me well, and that I actually like it before I use that yarn. Thus, I am free to allow my inner child some leeway to select some bright and ridiculous colors. :D

I really, really want to make this sweater. I have a long list of things to do tomorrow, but I think when I head out to go to the grocery store, I may have to stop by Hobby Lobby … just to look at the yarn. You know, provided they actually have any in stock. I swear every time I go into that store, they have more and more of their cheap-o (yet expensive) Chinese made yarn and far, far less of the standards everyone actually knits with. If I didn’t want to have the sweater done by the first Tuesday in September, I’d just order it on line. But I am too impatient to wait for it to arrive. I want to start on this sweater now.

And don’t ask about the damn socks I have been working on since forever started. You may know I had a set-back caused by cats which required some starting over. I’m pretty sure I didn’t mention I had a second set-back with them … also cause by cats. I am not meant to get that second sock finished. :mad: