Time For Some Plaid

I’m in a waffling mood with knitting right now. Everything took a back seat for my sales knits and even those are getting dull.

I think I just have too many projects going. I really want to get a few more hats done so I’m ahead of schedule for next winter. But the tartan plaid idea butted in thanks to a beautiful gift from my sister. A bag full of small skeins of complementary colors.

As much as I’m enjoying making progress on this large cowl, my eyes kept pulling to the green and charcoal Buffalo plaid double knit scarf, deliberately laid within easy reach for whenever my fingers craved its repetitive rhythm.

Slowly, but surely it’s getting longer. I don’t like the way my stitches come out when I use my left hand for the yarn, so both strands get wrapped around my right forefinger and I fiddle with separating the strands as I need to. This does create a lot of twisted yarns, which is slightly annoying to undo, but not enough to make me find a different way. Or maybe…

I was also going to deliberately create smaller squares and larger ones mixed in with the regular sized squares, but now I’m not so sure. There’s something really comforting about the evenly sized squares…

I guess my two cabling projects will just have to wait. The Buffalo plaid will take another year (most likely), but I think I can get the tartan done before winter is over. If I can stay focused. I want it big so it will hopefully sit a certain way. I’m experimenting with what I like. My favorite kind of knitting.