Knitting Plans

I still haven't finished the bear cardi I am knitting. I have procrastinated over it so much that I have now totally lost interest in it. If I'd paid more attention to it when I first started it I would have got it done in no time. Damn my sock obsession. I spent 15 minutes this morning pulling out most of Sunday evenings efforts because I made so many mistakes in it. The bear in that section is missing the left hand side of his chin, one of the cables is longer than the others and I forgot to shape for the armhole (dur!). Which all goes to prove, predictably, that knitting when hung over and sleep deprive is not a good idea. I have a definite deadline for finishing it so it really will get done before I go back to Newcastle (27th August) and am reunited with my stash. In the mean time I pondering what to start next.

I like to have a little thing and a big thing on the go at the same time. The first little thing I want to do is a tea cosy, requested by my friend Steve, for his big brown teapot. He gave me the dimensions this morning. I'd like to do something quite funky and interesting. I have about a million ideas, but I haven't yet found one which quite fits with my expectations. Plenty of time to think about that though.

The next big thing I want to knit is a jumper for myself. At woolfest I bought 1 kg of natural cream coloured aran (I could dye this). I also have 500 g of Debbie Bliss merino chunky from Lewis' sale.


I need to find a pattern which uses one of these. My current favourites are in the list below (Notice I am too cheap to go out and buy a pattern.). The biggest problem I am having decided is wondering how all of these would look with a pair of FF cups under them. A lot of jumpers which would look lovely on most people end up looking very odd on me. 3 would probably be the best looking but I suspect it would be extremely boring to knit. I would be greatful if people could let me know what they think or suggest alternatives.

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