This is an odd time of year for knitting.  Today the sky is blue and I am airing the
house in spite of the chill.  Still
technically in winter, we are surrounded by the pink tree blossoms and a
presence of green among the shrubs and grasses that herald our long slow
spring. Today is dry, but the rain will be back soon and with it the damp cold
winds that penetrate everything.  I am
still glad of my flannel sheets and bundle in a sweater and shawl in the
evenings!

So, what do I knit? 
Woolies or lacies?  The knitting
magazines are filled with the latter – they look ahead, of course, as any
sensible knitter will be doing.  My
knitting bags are filled with the former, of course!  Wool gauntlets – not quite done.  George’s cashmere sweater (Christmas
2009).  Even my neglected Humble Cardigan
(which I would love to be wearing this minute!).
 Some baby garments (okay, babies are not
seasonal). The Winter Olympic Bronze Medal socks.  And a wool Batwing Thing (a sweater I seem to
have – oops! – cast on when I was supposed to be working on said baby garments).

In my own defense, the Batwing Thing came on me from all
sides:  the Butternut Woolens Homegrown
wool yarn I bought at Madrona (one skein of watercolor shades, one of apple green,
one of mint green), a photo of a sweater in Vogue
(the fashion not the knitting magazine), a nagging curiosity about whether or
not there was enough of the Butternut yarn to make this sort of sweater (which
led to swatching which led to knitting), and the seasonal jadedness one has
about all one’s winter sweaters and wraps about now. 

On the lacy side of things, my shawls are calling me.  And Sarah made me dig out the summer sweater
(the Seaforest Shell) I laid aside last fall. 
And I have vague plans regarding some aqua merino-silk (also Butternut
Woolens – a yarnery for all seasons, apparently!) and a Handmaiden silk-seacell
that looks like the surface of the ocean just as the clouds are clearing on a
summer morning – the vague plan involves the Knit-One-Below technique we
learned from Elise Duvekot at Madrona.

So, what is a knitter to do? 
(okay, it is pretty much the best kind of dilemma one can have, but
still….)

The socks and the Batwing Thing are the most
compelling.  The baby garments must be
done soon.   The Humble Cardigan is
standing modestly aside – but only until I get the baby garments done!  The lacies? 
It is such a pretty almost-spring day that I think I can wait a while
yet to dream of summer.