It's 3 billion degrees outside...

...therefore, I knit.

I am in massive stashbusting mode.

Yarn to use:

2 skeins of Heritage Fingering in red.

1 skein of Ultra Alpaca in mossy green

Lots of small amounts of Malabrigo worsted and Noro worsted and fingering

Multi-balls of Rowan in a somewhat unattractive butterscotch color

(To be perfectly honest, half of this I don't recall buying or what it was originally for.)

But there's also stuff I want to do that wouldn't really help me to achieve my stashbusting goals.  I want to do another shrug in black for work (practical!) And also an Abalone cardigan.  I've been aware of this pattern for a long time but recently have started wanting to actually do it.  It looks fairly goof proof and practical as well... Maybe in Malabrigo - Paris Night (navy) or Pearl Ten (dark putty-charcoal)???   lust.

Also on the horizon:  I need to fix the Regina Hat I did a few months ago-- massive guage misshap, people.  Soooo cute if I can just get it right.  Quite art deco.

Need to finish a lovely striped scarf I started a while ago... heck, I need to finish a LOT of stuff.

knitting for therapy followed by throwing knitting against wall

The new job and the holidays have had me pretty busy and pretty stressed... which means I have knitted a lot of stuff.  When I get this way I tend to knit-binge where I start lots of huge projects that I have no hope of finishing in the next six months but maybe by the time Fall rolls around again.  I'm amazed at how therapeutic it can be though. 

The other thing that happens is I tend to start a project then realize it's not going to work out for whatever reason and I'm stuck with a specific quantity of random yarn.  A perfect example of this is the skein of Plymouth Alpaca Prima fingering weight I picked up in Murfreesboro last summer that just can't seem morph into a decent item.  It's lovely moss green (which I thought would be pretty with my yellow jacket) so I started with a scarf pattern featuring leaves along one edge.  Two lessons learned from this fiasco:

• Alpaca is not good for details.  Leaves knitted in fuzzy yarn just looks like lumpy scallops.   A shame to make all that fuzzy goodness into badness.
• Multiple YO's are my nemesis.  I will find a way to muck it up.  This is a recent development.  I think I have a mental block.

So, I'm going to frog this mother and try something else... something simple and without any freaking lacework or open stuff.  Methinks something with a nice ruffle that won't devolve into epic suck if a little fuzzy.