I really want to start knitting a summer sweater.  “Really want” is not actually strong
enough.  Maybe “wildly crave” or
“ardently desire.”  Anyhow, I definitely
have “sweater fever.”

I have been soooo good! 
Sticking to a few projects, working diligently.  And they are good projects – a baby kimono,
footies, the Gold Leaf Shrug (nearly done!), my Gull Pi Shawl (only about 10
rounds of pattern to go – at 570-some stitches per round – and then I get to
start the edging).  And I did finish Gwen’s blanket.  And I did
not start the Lily-of-the-Valley lace shawl.  Soooo good!

What has put me over the edge on this sweater lust, I think,
is the excitement of our beginning knitter class as they all launch their
projects (several of which are, in fact, sweaters…).  “Oooh, what a cool pattern!”  “Oooh, what at lovely yarn!”  Can you blame me for being envious?  Even Sarah has started a sweater! 

So, as I lay in bed in the early morning, listening to the
siren song of my wooly stash, I recalled that I had yarn specially set aside
for a summer sweater – one that I intended to design.  Designing, after
all, is not knitting!  I smiled.  No, of course, designing is a totally other
process that would not interfere with my knitting diligently on my worthy (and
oh-so-nearly-done) projects! 
Excellent. 

So, I dug out my summer sweater to-be-designed yarn:  Blue Moon LSS (Luscious Single Silk) and Blue
Moon “Socks That Rock” – both in Manly, Yes, But I Like It Too (colorway) and
Habu Kusaki Zome (silk) in lemon yellow.   

And I began leafing  through my
Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts Movement books – the idea is to do an intarsia
design in that style.  A happy knitter –
er, designer – am I!