Knitting!

Went and took advantage of the John Lewis sale at Trafford park and bought 10 skeins of some lovely silk yarn. Spent too much money, but it was much too nice to resist - and a VERY good price for the quality. I'm thinking of going back before the 22nd (last day of the sale) and seeing if there's some other yarn I can spend money on.
Yes, there's a new project I'd like to start, but I don't have the yarn for it - it's a lovely sweater by Debbie Bliss in her new "Rialto" pattern book for the wool of the same name. The sweater is called "Sophia" and the main reason I want to knit it can be looked at here:
http://www.kangaroo.uk.com/catalogue/page_detail.php?pId=971&tId=18&stId=1369
The problem is that I do not want to spend the money on the rialto yarn, strictly because I don't like the colours it comes in to use on THIS sweater, so I'm trying to find a substitute that will hopefully be cheaper, as well as in the colour I want
(which I'm having trouble deciding - either a duck-egg blue or a clear soft blue-green. Yes, I know there's not much difference, but I'm picky.).

Recently I worked on a few of the blanket squares and a bit on the fingerless mittens (got some more yarn for a couple more pairs of those as well).
The problem with the knitting at the moment is that my OU homework is now needing more time delegating to it, and that makes my time for knitting suffer.
Not that I've got the wherewithal to knit, since right now (and for now, until the end of October) I'm primarily thinking about harmonising music, brain development and psychology and evolution. *sigh*.

It doesn't help that I've started two journals on Wordpress. Go look if you want to. One'll be found under "The Periodical Mumblings of a Crafter" - it's sort of an experiment. I read enough comments saying how Wordpress is fantastic, so I'm seeing if that's true.

Until such time as I'm in my right mind - or left one.
Bye.