Turns out I’m not quite ready to sink my teeth into the 100-Year Sweater quite yet.  Perhaps I’ve given it too daunting of a name?

Thanks for all your comments on the contrast color.  I’ve decided to go with the purple.

However, I just haven’t felt myself in the mood to cast-on yet.  In the meantime I suddenly found myself with the urge to whip up some quick stash-busting type projects.

I knit this hat in a couple of evenings:

Leafprints Hat knit from Himalayan Wool/Silk yarn

I think I could have finished this in one evening but what I thought was a bulky weight turned out to be more of a worsted and I ended up with leaves that didn’t pop and more than 1/2 the yarn left over so I frogged and re-knit with two strands of the yarn held together.  I like it much better now and it just needs a pom-pom for me to consider it finished.

I also cast-on for a Daybreak Shawl in two different Noro yarns.  I’m knitting the small size but using a DK weight yarn.  I don’t really have a plan for how this will turn out.  I just liked the colors and fingers crossed I have enough yarn because I got this at on sale and I don’t think they have any more at the LYS.

Not my usual color-scheme.

Also in my excitement over the pretty colors I forgot that Noro yarn is all striped (regardless of how it is skeined) and did not remember until I started winding the yarn into a ball.  I was imagining a variegated colorway for some reason so I’m hoping that I’ll like the scarf in the end even though it won’t be quite how I envisioned it originally.

In other news my cousin/bff Adrienne gave me a lovely early birthday present:

Mmm…delicious handspun…

We estimate there are about 500 yards of something resembling a worsted weight of this yarn.  I am planning for a stripey sweater and will be sorting the stash in search of a worthy match for it.

I am extremely excited at the prospect of wearing Adrienne’s handspun-for-me yarn in sweater form.