One (picture-less) FO! A day to remember, then.

Yesterday I dragged my brother back to Le Comptoir, and bought a second skein of yarn for the odd shoulderette object. The lighter blue I’d picked was all sold, so I settled for a darker, petrol blue. Yes, my FO is made out of two - no, actually, 3 - different colors. I did wonder how silly it would look, and I thought perhaps I would even frog and knit it back up while striping all the while… Since the ridged design even naturally lends itself to that.. But I decided against. This was to keep me warm now that winter-y temperatures are there, and I needed/wanted it sooner rather than later.
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I can be extremely short-spanned some days (also, language-mangling, if you notice). For example, the title of my post yesterday had to do with that I’d meant to write about my Endpaper Mitts project (ravelry link) - but I completely lost sight of that as I wrote out the rest.

What I wanted to say yesterday: I have frogged what I had so far, as it was but the swatch for the project. The plan is to cast on again tonight (as soon as I post this, actually), and perhaps manage to knit the whole ribbed cuff of the first mitt in the time it takes to watch Bones. That is rather optimistic, but you never know.

As for the lack of picture of yesterday, I remembered that I have the yarn, if not the FO, to show.
This is the wool I used for this weird non-capelet thing I made, which my brother has taken to calling my Persian armor. I still intend to lengthen it so it falls past my shoulder, which would modify the look of it and hence the visual connotations, I think (not that they bother me) - but I’ll need to buy more yarn for that.

No pictures this time, I’ve missed the right daylight window to snap up the new yarn I bought in Nantes. I was away for a weekend of professional networking, which I am unused to, and it made me feel strangely afloat and vulnerable. Obviously the way to regain my footing and manage some semblance of control over my surroundings was to buy yarn! And needles - I needed big circs for some of the more bulky threads I’d bought recently, and I managed to acquire both 6mm and 7mm circulars. Too short, yet useful anyway.

I used them already, knitting a sort of shoulderette thing from the blue 100% wool I bought at Le Comptoir in October. It’s inspired from the Noro Hat from Saartje de Bruijn (Ravelry link). I knitted two of those last year, one in Kureyon #165 for me and one in Iro for Mom, and I love the effect of the horizontal faux-rib so much, I used it for this shruglet-noname blue experiment. It stope right after covering my shoulders so far, and I think I’ll go back to the shop for a second skein and lengthen it some.

I might even manage to take a picture of it, too! I’m wearing it right now, it’s nice and warm.