knitpagan

Sometimes, all the inspiration I need to knit something comes from looking at yarn.  Such was the case last night when I looked at the new colors of Cascade 220.  Colorway number 9544, the red-and-black, reminded me so instantly of my friend Grey that I immediately posted to my LJ to ask him what he’d rather have, a hat or a pair of socks.  Today, I ordered the yarn from my favorite local yarn store.  It should be there in a couple of weeks, though with my luck, it’ll come while I’m at Between the Worlds.  I’m hoping that luck is with me, and I get it next week before the event, so I can start knitting while I’m there and he can see the progress.  I’ll be making both the socks and the hat.  The socks will be made with my friend Don’s Evil Genius sock pattern, and the hat will be a cross between a Jayne hat and a long night-cap-ish type.  There won’t be a lot of patterning to either one, since it’ll get hidden very quickly in the variation between red and black.  At most, I’ll do a 2×2 rib.

Of course, I also want to do the same socks in the 9538 and 9539 colorways.  Maybe I’ll find some awesome friends who understand that, yes, yarn is a perfectly acceptable Yule gift.

Hint.  Hint hint.