I seem to be running a day behind here… yesterday’s news is that I took the two untouched balls I had left over from the Big Bad Baby Blanket back to the shop to swap them for a different colour. I had 1.5 balls each of the Alabaster and Ricepaper left and a single ball of the Quartz, a little over 4 balls in total. Unfortunately the Quartz ball had been partially pulled out and re-wound so it couldn’t be returned. My plan was to swap the two paler balls that I could return for two more balls of Quartz and then make a baby sweater, moslty purple with a stripe of the two paler colours somewhere along the way. That was the plan… Then I saw this:

You may notice that there are actually three balls there, I couldn’t help myself, I bought an extra ball. Now that I have had some time to sleep on it I have a new plan. My one ball of quartz and the leftovers of Ricepaper and Alabaster Silkroad Aran are going to become hat to go with the BBBB, I dont’ really want to do another large project with the same yarn/colours right now. Of course that frees me up to do something all new with the lovely new “Boheme” yarn. As it happens it is a very good thing that I have a new plan because this yarn is NOT Aran Tweed as both the shopkeeper and I thought it was, but DK Tweed which would not have knitted up nearly so well with my Silk Road Aran remnants. Finding that the new yarn was DK weight was very pleasing all round, not only did it help enable this new plan for the remnants of my BBBB, it is also much better suited to a cardigan for Isabelle. Needless to say the yarn store is holding another 4 balls for me to go pick up at my earliest convenience.

Oh and I do have some news from today after all. A pair of 6.5mm Crystal Palace circs came in the post today so now I am ready to start working on the Booga Bag the second the Phildar Hooded Jacket is done. Wonder if that will be enough motivation to see me knock of the rest of the sleeves and the fronts this weekend, so far it has been a very quick knit.