And then I saw a pattern I really liked and I bought it. But it's just the pattern. It can sit on my hard drive until the yarn moratorium is over.
But a small problem developed. After I finished a shawl, there was nothing else I wanted to work on. I tried picking up a project that was hibernating, but that didn't last long. It was on hold because it was so extremely repetitive that I got bored.
I eyed a throw I was making for my cousin's son, but it's Georgia and it's too hot to have that material on my lap.
What I should have been working on was unknitting the sleeve I'd messed up on my sweater, and I did try to do that, but after a couple of rows, I was like, I don't want to do this. What else can I work on?
I started a new shawl that I had in my To Be Knit drawer, but I found it exceptionally difficult to do a garter tab cast on with thin yarn (fingering weight). I'd only done it with heavier yarn in the past. I moved to another shawl, but I kept messing that beginning up, too. After starting over four times, I gave up on that as well.
Nothing interested me.
And then that new pattern started whispering to me. But I don't have yarn for you, I said. I'm not buying any more yarn this year. It whispered more insistently.
I browsed yarn, but closed all the browser tabs without buying. I did the same thing the next day.
The day after that I couldn't find colors I liked. The day after that, I couldn't get the colors I wanted at the same store and I wasn't going to order yarn from multiple stores.
Guess who ordered yarn from multiple stores?
I'm normally a fan of brighter colors, but I love this green and the second color of yarn is a purple. I'm knitting the swatch now.
