“Oh, Edmund... can it be true? That I hold here, in my mortal hand…”

“…a nugget of purest Green?”

Slightly paralysed from too much choice, I spent some quality time with my stash. I keep it in a cardboard box full of multiple mesh bags which separates my wool by type/weight/arbitrary reasons and I upended this on the living room floor and sat and stared at it. I weighed bits of balls, re-bagged a few, and did a lot of wool-squishing........Aaaaand I was no closer to choosing. Then I had a bit of tantrum.

When I came to, I had cast on Gidday Baby (Ravelry link here) in two shades of Hayfield Bonus DK, which I have since completed:

It has used up all the dark green – yay! It was only a semi-successful game of yarn chicken though, I didn’t have enough for the final row of the left sleeve, a frustratingly teeny amount but thankfully not noticeable unless you were trying to find it.

It was a good knit, really quick as you do the garter edging as you go along. As ever I hate knitting sleeves (and I have a couple of ladders if you’re looking for ‘em) but at least on such a small jumper they go quickly.

If I knitted this again I would pick up stitches for the increases rather than using yarn overs. The holes just don’t look deliberate or like they are a design feature. They add a little intrigue perhaps, but not enough to counteract the “did you mean to have these holes here?” factor.

Well anyway, I’ve made inroads into the stash - huzzah! 

This is a good start and all, but it’s the Sirdar Snuggly collection I’m frozen by. I think I want to knit Viktoria (Ravelry link here) but with which colours??

One bag of several.

I don’t know why I get so wound up by decisions like this. I know ultimately it doesn’t really matter – ultimately Baby will outgrow whatever I knit in a matter of months!

*Quote from Blackadder