Okay, I swatched.

But I did it legitimately. Honest.

I have an edict that I can apply when I am overwhelmingly moved to knit something that is not on the schedule. When a yarn sings its siren song. When I read a poignant account of sock knitting and suddenly nothing will soothe my soul but to knit a sock. When I have 6 projects on the needles – probably 4 or more on a deadline of some sort – and I just need a little break. When the knitting muses are ill-tempered, the knitting sprites are bored, and even family members are getting critical because “hey, haven’t you finished that _____ yet?!”

The edict that preserves my spirit is: What I knit in bed is my own business.