Lock, Shock and Barrel Shawl - Cast On!

This is the last of the mini-skeins of the Nightmare Before Christmas Advent set, and it was setting up this project in Ravelry that clued me in to the stashing mistake I had made with this set and the Dragons set from 2018.  It took me a little bit to get it sorted, but it is sorted, at least on my project pages, even if it is still screwed up in my stash, which I’m just not going to worry about seeing as how when I complete these shawls all of the yarn will be used up.

Yesterday I started the second skein of the set while I was finishing up my latest read:  Dust Mites:  The Siege of Airlock Three by James A. Bacon Jr.  It was a wonderful read and I really want to see him finish the story.  So, if you like hard science fiction, with a realistic world (our own not too distant future) and characters and conflicts that make sense, I highly recommend it.

This is the set that is being used for this shawl.  I may change out the border color, but I will decide when I get there.

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Shawl - Border Started!

I finally received the yarn for this border last week.  It took a bit of time to get here.  It was mailed from Loveland Colorado back on April 6, went from Loveland to Denver on April 7, left Denver on April 9, arrived in Richmond Virginia on April 16, and was delivered to me on April 17.  Usually my packages from The Loopy Ewe get here quicker than that.  But in any event, it did make it here safely.  I really like the color, it is Black Pearl, and it does have a sort of pearly quality to it.  It is quite interesting.

Pattern:  Improvised Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering and Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Electric Oogie Boogie Shawl - Making Progress on the Border

It is always nice to get a project like this to the point where you feel confident that you made the right color choices.  I really like the way that this is working up.  I’m about one-third of the way done with the border.  This shawl and the Speckles Shawl represent half of the mini-skeins in the Nightmare Before Christmas Advent Set, except that I realized when I was casting on the last project using this Advent set that I had totally screwed up cataloging it in my stash.  This mini-skein set ended up getting stashed with the Advent 2018 set that was really the Dragons set (which I just knit up).

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering and Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Trillium Lake - Finished!

This one knit up quickly, cast on March 29 and finished April 14, I do so like top down in the round patterns.  I added some extra length because I like my tops just a bit longer than the pattern called for.  I did add the short row shaping for the back.

The fit is perfect, and the yarn is deliciously soft.  I had a tendency to stop and pet it while I was knitting.  This is also one of the few patterns that I have knit where the Knitting Barber Cords really worked well.  I had put the sleeve stitches on them when I was working the body, and when I wanted to try on the top to check the length it was easy to slip the body stitches on and off a cord.  I sometimes find that for some yarns the stitches just don’t slip easily on the cord, and I’ve actually pulled the cord off the needle tip, which is a nuisance, to say the least.

Pattern:  Trillium Lake by Kay Hopkins

Yarn:  The Fibre Co Road to China Light

Needle:  US 3 (3.25 mm) and US 4 (3.5 mm)

 

Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024 - One February Block Done, Second one started!

I finished this block up back on April 8, and then it took two days to dry when I blocked it.  I block these right side down, as I find it easier to pin out, given the curly edges due to the stockinette stitch, so I get a nice reveal when I unpin it.  This one blocked easily to 12 inches (unlike the first January block that I knit that I had to block aggressively to get it to 12 inches).  I’m getting better at the purling two handed colorwork thing, and I think my tension control is improving.  I have cast on the second February block as well.  I do enjoy knitting these, but they take a fair bit of concentration, so definitely not TV knitting, unless it is something that I can just listen to.

The colors for February are:  Mulberry Jam and Lilac

Pattern:  Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Nightmare Before Christmas Speckles Shawl - Finished!

I finished this up back on April 3.  I really like the red border.

It provides a nice dramatic finish.  I do think that adding a border to shawls like this helps bring the pieces together to make a more coherent whole.  The yarn for the edging is another of the Sundara Yarn skeins that I purchased as part of a temperature blanket kit that I never knit.  This color was for temperatures 91-100.

Pattern:   Improvised Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering & Sundara Yarn Extra Fine Fingering Merino

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Trillium Lake - Cast On!

Having finished up the body of my Sally Shawl I needed another easy project for my work bag.  Having also finished up my Ramea I decided I wanted to do another top and I grabbed the yarn that I had ordered for the Trillium Lake pattern from The Fibre Co.  The yarn is Road to China Light in the color Tanzanite.  The yarn is 65% alpaca, 15% silk, 10% camel, 10 % cashmere and 100% awesome.  Sometimes I just find myself petting it instead of knitting.  I worked up a swatch and got gauge, so I caked up all the skeins and cast on.  I got it to the easy knitting point before I needed to take it into work.

Once I got to the part where I needed to put the sleeve stitches on holders I worked that part at home, so that I could just enjoy the endless rounds of this super soft yarn that feels so good to work with.

I really do enjoy knitting in the round.  Now that it is the weekend, I will spend some time reading and knitting, and maybe have to figure out another easy project to put in my work bag.

Pattern:  Trillium Lake by Kay Hopkins

Yarn:  The Fibre Co Road to China Light

Needle:  US 3 (3.25 mm), US 4 (3.5 mm)

 

Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Shawl - Body Done!

I finished up the body last weekend.  Now I have to decide on the border color.  I have a color that matches the last mini-skein fairly well, but I’m worried that it won’t be close enough  and will look wrong, so I looked for other options.

I have also been thinking about just working a black border, so I went to the Simply Socks Yarn Company web site to get some, and they don’t carry that color in their simply sock yarn any more.  So I went to The Loopy Ewe web site and found a skein of Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere.  It isn’t solid black, but I think it will work.  The colorway is called Black Pearl.

Pattern:  Improvised Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Ramea - Finished!

I finished this up back in March - March 25th.  The back went fairly quickly, and then it was just grafting that final long seam - 184 stitches.  I decided to do the I-cord edging on the sleeves, neck, and hem in my color B, the fuchsia, to have a color pop.  I’ve tried it on and it fits perfectly.

Pattern:  Ramea by Jennifer Beale

Yarn:  Karabella Yarns Aurora 4

Needle:  US 1 (2.25 mm), US 1.5 (2.5 mm), US 2.5 (3.0 mm)

Sweet as Honey Cowl - Finished!

I also reblocked my Sweet as Honey Cowl as the first blocking didn’t look much better than the unblocked state, mostly because I didn’t actually stretch it out, I just soaked it and laid it out to dry.  I did try to do some stretching of it before I laid it out, but I didn’t pin it at all.  This time I stretched it vertically first, pinning the top and bottom, and then pulled it horizontally pinning it along the folded edge.  The bee section is still a little more lumpy than I would like, but overall I am happy with it.  I love the colors and the design.  The fabric is soft and it will be warm and cozy next winter.  I used the called for yarn in the called for colors.  I did have to go up two needle sizes to get anywhere close to gauge.  I haven’t actually measured my finished gauge - it fits me perfectly and that is good enough for me.  The only other modification I made was to work a 2x2 ribbing instead of the 1x1 ribbing the pattern called for, as I prefer the look of the 2x2 ribbing.

Pattern:  Sweet as Honey Cowl by Simone Van Iderstine

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024 - January Blocks Done!

Last week I finally finished my Bossy Blue Jay block.  I did an initial block of the block and didn’t like the result.  I don’t think I soaked it long enough and I didn’t block it firmly enough so I decided to reblock it.  I also decided to reblock the other block.  I blocked them right side down as I found it easier to pin the curling edges that way.  I started out with pins in each corner just to set the limits and I quickly realized that I needed to block the Blue Jay to larger dimensions than I had blocked the patterned block.  In fact I was able to block the Blue Jay to 12 inches by 12 inches, which is the called for dimension.  I was also able to reblock the patterned block to the same dimensions, although I had to stretch it rather strenuously.  Both blocks pulled in a little bit side to side when I took them off the blocking mats, but they are the same size.

At one point I thought that I would have to reknit the first block and I realized that the difference in tension was due to the way that I knit them.  I was not comfortable purling continental so I was holding both strands in my right hand and throwing which ever color I needed.  Because I wanted my stitches to be consistent I also used the same technique on the right side, even though I can knit continental and have done that for colorwork in the round.  Unfortunately this resulted in a tighter gauge.  On the plus side, the stitches are beautifully even.  For the Bossy Blue Jay, because I had to trap my floats I used both hands on both the right and wrong side, and because of the design I had to switch which hand was holding which yarn as I only know how to capture the floats when the yarn that needs to be captured is being held in my left hand.  All of that contributed to my stitches not being as even as I would like.  I also had an errant dark blue stitch in the snow flake motif, which I covered with duplicate stitch before I blocked.  I have started the February berries block (the all-over patterned one) and am working it continental on both the right and wrong sides to make sure that my two February blocks have a similar tension.  Depending on how my other blocks come out, I may go back and reknit these two.  I could turn these two into a pillow if I did that.

January colors:  November Sky and A Night Without Stars

February colors:  Mulberry Jam and Lilac

Pattern:  Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Ramea - Front and Both Sleeves Done!

The really exciting news is that I have finally finished the front of my Ramea.  I started planning this project over a year ago (after seeing it on the Fleece and Harmony knitting video podcast when I was binging the earlier episodes).  I swatched for it back in January 2024.

Finally casting on in November.  The first sleeve worked up quickly, but the lace front took me a while.

Once I finished the lace front I immediately moved on to sleeve number two.  And after I finished the knitting I blocked before I grafted the sleeve together.

I blocked it right side down to make it easier to pin out, and ended up putting a cookie canister (Pepperidge Farm) in the other sleeve to keep the shape proper.  I’ll use canisters in both sleeves when I do the final block, it worked perfectly.  Now I’m working the back, which is just straight stockinette. It is nice to get some pretty mindless knitting, and to get rid of some of the needles that I had holding stitches.  While working the second sleeve I had needles for both sides of the body, and the other side of the sleeve - so four sets total.  It did get a little crazy at times.  Now I just have two.

Pattern:  Ramea by Jennifer Beale

Yarn:  Karabella Yarns Aurora 4

Needles:  US 1 (2.25 mm), US 1.5 (2.5 mm), US 2.5 (3.0 mm)

 

Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Shawl - Two Skeins Done

I have also been making progress on my latest mindless project that I knit on at work, completing the first two skeins of the mini set and starting the third.  I like the color block thing that is going on here.

Pattern:  Improvised Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering & Kiri

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024 - Second January Block - Making Progress

I have slowly been making progress on my second January block.  I did take the time to completely set up the chart in knitCompanion (with magic markers and stitch counts), and am even getting the hang of purling continental.  The blue jay is starting to emerge.

January colors:  A Night Without Stars and November Sky

Pattern:  Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)
 

Joy to the World - Dragons - Finished!

I finished this up on February 28 while I was home from work, taking a sick day.  I knit the border and read the third book in The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy by Katherine Arden.  A book recommendation that I had gotten from Harmony Reads, the companion book video podcast to the Fleece and Harmony knitting video podcast.  I highly recommend the trilogy.  It was a very good read.

I’ve already worn this shawl to work twice, and showed it off at a Fruity Knitting Knit & Chat Zoom session.

Completion of this shawl uses up the The Unique Sheep Dragon Advent Calendar from 2018, and most of another skein in my stash - the brown border, which was part of a neutral trio that I picked up at a Unique Sheep Retreat, when those were still happening.

Pattern:  Joy to the World by Louise Robert

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering and Kiri

Needle:  US 3 (3.25 mm)

Electric Oogie Boogie Shawl - Border Started!

It took me some pondering before I finally settled on a color for the border.  I also considered a bright yellow, but in the end I decided to go for a gold.  I am also using dark purple silver lined beads from deep stash.  I tried a bright blue silver lined bead but it just didn’t work.  This skein is from my Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere collection.  The color is Gold Experience.  Loving color as I do, I do love Dream in Color yarns.

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering & Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Shawl - Cast On!

When I got home from my 10.5 hour day on Monday I knew that I was going to need another simple project for my work bag, so I caked up another six mini-skeins from the Nightmare Before Christmas Advent set.  This set was inspired by the character Sally.  There were two skeins that were labeled as Speckle even though they obviously were not so I guessed, based on the other skeins in the Advent set, that they belonged here and assumed that the number on the label was correct even if the name was wrong.  The dark red skein at the top is the one that I was hoping to use on both this shawl and the Speckles Shawl, but it doesn’t really go with the Speckles Shawl.  I was casting this shawl on just as I was signing in to my year end review with my supervisor.  She mentioned that she had sought feedback from my peers (the other Chief Engineers) and that someone had mentioned my knitting in meetings, and that folks might think that I wasn’t paying attention.  Fortunately she didn’t think it was a big deal, but she did feel that she had to mention it.  Some years ago a previous supervisor actually wrote me a disciplinary letter regarding knitting in meetings.  I explained to my current supervisor why I knit in meetings and when I’m reading documents (it helps keep me focused), and also mentioned that I was knitting in our meeting.  I’m retiring at the end of the year, so I really don’t care at this point.

Pattern:  Improvised Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering & Kiri

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Nightmare Before Christmas Speckles Shawl - Body Done, and Border Started!

I was in an all day class on Monday, so I got a lot of knitting done on this shawl, getting to the last mini-skein.  I finished it up Tuesday in some virtual meetings, so yesterday when I got home from work I picked through my stash and found a color for the border.  I knew I wanted red.  I was going to go for a dark red, but it didn’t really work with the colors of the shawl, so in the end I went with a brighter red.  It is another skein of Sundara Yarn Extra Fine Fingering Merino that was dyed up for a temperature blanket that I bought and never knit.  This color was for temperatures 91-100.

It definitely pops.

Pattern:  Improvised Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply Merino Fingering and Sundara Yarn Extra Fine Fingering Merino

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Nightmare Before Christmas Speckles Shawl - Three Skeins Done!

I managed to get a fair bit of knitting done this past week at the office, thanks to meetings, and having to read documents.  I am actually about half way through the fourth skein.  I do like the way that this is working up.  I have a skein of dark red that I may use for the border.  I have another set of six skeins from this Advent set that will also become a Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl, and I can get the edging for both shawls out of a single skein.

Pattern:  Improvised Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering

Needle: US 4 (3.5 mm)
 

Sweet as Honey Cowl - Cast On, Take Two

After working my Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024 gauge swatch I decided to restart my Sweet as Honey Cowl on larger needles.  I ended up going with a US 5 (3.75 mm) needle instead of the US 3 (3.25 mm) needle that the pattern recommended.  I’m thinking the designer is a looser knitting than I am.  I am working this on 20 inch circulars, and it fits easily without the stitches being crowded (I was working the previous version on 16 inch circulars) so I am more confident that I will actually be able to wear this as a cowl and will not be forced to turn it into a hat, or a small pillow.  If you look close, you can see the bees starting to emerge.  I also switched the 1x1 rib to a 2x2 rib, which I prefer.

Pattern:  Sweet as Honey Cowl by Simone Van Iderstine

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted in Autumn Birch and Plover

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024 - One January Block Done, Second One Cast On

I finished one of the January blocks, and blocked it.  It is not quite square, and it is a bit smaller than the pattern calls for, but I am pretty happy with it.  I started with the easy block, from a pattern perspective, just to get the hang of working stranded knitting on the purl side.  I’ve cast on the second January block.

This one has much bigger blocks of color, and in those areas I am holding the color that I am not knitting with in my left hand so I can catch the floats easier as I knit.  When I’m working Fair Isle in the round I will put the yarn that I need to catch floats on in my left hand, so depending on what is going on that round I may have to switch my yarns.  I’m still not comfortable purling continental, so in those areas where I’m working with both colors I hold both yarns in my right hand.  It makes for some yarn adjusting as I work the pattern, which just takes a little time and interrupts the flow.

January colors:  A Night Without Stars and November Sky

Pattern:  Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Nightmare Before Christmas Speckles Shawl - Cast On!

Of course, finishing up the body of the Electric Oogie Boogie Shawl meant that I had to cast on another mindless project for my work bag, so I grabbed another six skein set from the Nightmare Before Christmas Advent Calendar and cast on a garter stitch boomerang shawl.  This set is simply called “Speckles”, and the only thing to do with this yarn is a garter stitch boomerang shawl.  I may go a bit wild with the edging though and pick a nice pop color, as the skeins aren’t all monochromatic gray/black.  I do like the way the speckles are knitting up.

Pattern:  Improvised Garter Stitch Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)
 

Electric Oogie Boogie Shawl - Body Done!

Even with being in the office every day, I’m still managing to get lots of mindless knitting done.  I finished up the body of this shawl last week.  I still have a little bit of the last skein to knit, but I doubt I have enough for a full row, and I need to decide on the edging color before proceeding.  I currently have a skein that continues the purples set aside, but I’m pondering a change, maybe gold or yellow, with dark purple beads.  If I stick with the purples I’ll use more of the bright blue beads that I used on the Wyvern Shawl.

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024 - Swatch Done, and First Block Cast On

I turned my first attempt at the first block into my swatch, increasing needle size for each set of chevrons.  I started with 2.75 mm, and the other needle sizes are:  3.0 mm, 3.25 mm, and 3.5 mm.  After completing the chart and binding off, I cut my steak (no reinforcement) and blocked my swatch.  I do love the feel of this yarn, and my cut edges are very stable.  I still haven’t reinforced them.  After playing with the swatch and fondling it I have decided to go with the 3.5 mm needle.  I have also decided to work the blocks flat as I think the steek is just going to add too much bulk to the seams, but I am adding an extra stitch at the beginning and the end of the row as a selvedge stitch, to keep the edges neat and tidy, and so I don’t lose any of the pattern when I seam the blocks together.  I also decided to use straight needles instead of circulars.  I think the fact that I have a consistent needle size (instead of the cable) to hold the stitches will help keep my floats and stitch tension uniform.

Knitting back and forth means that I can’t do two handed yarn control.  I can knit just fine continental style, but purling is still very awkward for me.  Fortunately, before I learned the two handed Fair Isle I worked out a technique that holds both yarns in my right hand and allows me to throw the color that I need, and do so in a uniform fashion, and I can purl without any trouble or discomfort.  My box of yarn came last week, although I will have to buy more of these two colors for the July blocks, given my swatch, as that yarn is not reclaimable.

January Block Colors:  A Night Without Stars, November Sky

Pattern:  Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

 

Sweet as Honey Cowl - Cast On!

While I was pondering my path forward on the Mystery Blanket, I decided to cast on one of the other projects that I had purchased yarn for.  This is the Sweet as Honey Cowl by Simone Van Iderstine.  It is also knit in the Selkirk Worsted, with the same gauge as the blanket, but on a 3.25 mm needle.  Hmm, said I, I’ve been wanting to knit this, so I decided to cast this on as part of my figuring out how this yarn knits up experimenting.  This is also coming out on the dense side, although not quite as dense as the blanket.  At this point I’m wondering if it would even fit over my head as a cowl, maybe it could be a hat.  But Kim of Fleece and Harmony has said that their yarn expands width wise and shrinks length wise when blocked, so I don’t know.  We will just see what happens.  That is, after all, what experiments are for.  I am enjoying the knit, and that is really what matters.

Pattern:  Sweet as Honey Cowl by Simone Van Iderstine

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted

Needle:  US 3 (3.25 mm)

Fleece and Harmony - 2024 Mystery Blanket

Fleece and Harmony is hosting a mystery blanket knit along this year.  I picked up their video pod cast from Fruity Knitting, and I really enjoy it, along with their Harmony Reads video podcast.  I binge watched all of their older episodes and am caught up at this point.  I’ve ordered yarn from them for several projects, but had not actually worked with any until I cast on for this project.  The squares are supposed to be worked flat, but I am not fond of working Fair Isle flat so I decided to work in the round with steeks, figuring that I will back the finished blanket to make it even more durable.  I cast on with the needles recommended in the pattern (2.75 mm), and no, I did not work a gauge swatch.  I’m letting this be my gauge swatch.  I have no problem ripping back and/or knitting over again.  I love the feel of the yarn, but the fabric with this needle size is super dense.  So, after working nineteen rows I set it aside to think.  I grabbed needles the next two sizes up (3.0 mm and 3.25 mm), and will probably continue this as my gauge swatch, putting a locking stitch marker on the round I change needles on.  There are four sections of chevrons, so I can use a different needle size on each chevron section and just see how it goes.  Then I can cut the steek and block it and see if my plan to work in the round will work for the project.  I have already bought the yarn for the rest of the blanket, all of it, although I will have to get more of these two colors (A Night Without Stars and November Sky).  This is one of the January blocks.  The February blocks are already out.

Pattern:  Fleece and Harmony Mystery Blanket 2024

Yarn:  Fleece and Harmony Selkirk Worsted

Needle:  Size to be determined

Electric Oogie Boogie Shawl - Cast On!

Last weekend, having completed the body of my Joy to the World - Dragons shawl I needed another easy knit to throw in my work bag.  I’m back in the office full time again due to some technical/security issues with the VPN we use.  I don’t really mind that much.  I had never teleworked until COVID because I liked the clean break between work and home, and I’m enjoying that again.  It isn’t quite as clean as it used to be because I have a work phone that I can check email and MS Teams on, but I don’t bring the computer home anymore.  Anyway, I grabbed another six-skein set of minis that I had set aside for another Over the Moon variant shawl.  At this point I am working on skein 4 and don’t have to refer to the pattern anymore as there are no more stitch doubling rows.

This set is part of an Advent set that was inspired by A Nightmare Before Christmas.  This is the best set of that lot, the others are going to be more challenging to work with.  It was a bold choice for an Advent set, and bold choices don’t always work out so well.  I have a full sized skein picked out already, but I’m not sure if I will stick with that choice.

I may go for a blue skein, if I can find a good match.  Or I may stay with the purple, after all, purple is my favorite color these days.

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep 4 Ply SW Merino Fingering

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)