Another project started...

I titled this post this way because it seems that if I wait to post about finished projects, this will be a very boring blog. I have, at this moment, more than twenty knitting/crocheting/sewing projects that vary in degrees of incompleteness. I don't think that I am unique that way. I am trying to stick to a rule I made for myself: I am not to start a new project until I finish an old one. I realize that the net effect of this rule is nil, as I will always have about twenty undone projects lurking around the house. But I'm okay with that. This is some gorgeous cotton yarn I got when I went to Argentina. I love to find yarn that is more obscure. Not so easy to get a hold of. For instance, this yarn came with no label, no dye lot, the color is not even named. That makes it very exciting to come up with what I want to make out of it. I have to be creative. I am the kind of person who will find a pattern I like and then go get the suggested yarn. I would rather be the kind of person who brings home a yarn she is drawn to, lives with it for awhile, and then decides what would be the best way to use it.

I think I will use this to make the boatneck sweater from Hollywood Knits. Only I want to make it without using a double strand of yarn. This means math. And lots of it. I will post pictures as it comes along.

On a related subject, has anyone else noticed how patterns give different instructions for different sizes, but that these only differ by an inch or two? For example, this pattern's largest size differs from its smallest one by only four inches. That's four inches of circumference, not width. The size range seems to be even less than what one finds in the stores. I'm a size 10, so I'll make the large and just hope for the best!