or lack of them, anyway.
Ok, that sentence is, on the surface, a bit misleading. Out there online, there's obviously hundreds, if not thousands of patterns I could use with roughly 600 metres of heavy fingering yarn.
I think the problem is that the yarn is Manos silk blend, and it's a wildly variegated, short colour run pattern. I'm not seeing (so far) any patterns that grab me enough to use with the yarn.
I know it's me. I don't want something with long runs of stocking stitch or garter stitch. I don't want lots of lace - the colour is just vibrant and variegated enough that the lace will be a distraction to the colour, or the other way around.
I want just the right amount of the right lace pattern and just the right amount of mixed purl and knit stitches along with the right amount of stocking and/or garter stitch.
I want to do a stole or a shawl and, to add one more spanner to tthe mix, I only have 200g of the yarn.
I know that I've put myself into a bit of a cul-de-sac with the yarn + limitations of pattern, but I know, somehow, I'll find just the right combination eventually. . . . .
I just hope it's sooner than later. *sigh*
In good news, though, I got the circular needles necessary to start the Mermaid Jacket. At this time, amazingly for me, I've completed 55% of the jacket.
I've not yet started the shawl mentioned in the Simply Knitting magazine, but, I've started work on 2 other shawls; they're both being knit with stash yarn *whee*. I'll give more details about them in the next entry. The reason is that while I'm really happy with the progress in all details of one shawl and I love the pattern of the second, I'm not sure about the choice of yarn for it, and if this particular shawl needs to be restarted in the other colour (same company and name), I'm not sure that I'll get to the same place I'm at quite as quickly or with the same amount of joy.
Though on the other hand I might be even happier with the results of the other colour of yarn.
Fun.
*snicker*
Later.
