I seem to be knitting a spring/summer wardrobe!  My palette is pale blue, gray, taupe, a deeper ocean blue, and shale (which is the browny-gray color of wet rocks).  I have a couple of wraps going, a short sleeved sweater, a cardigan (which is technically hibernating, but as it peeks at me from its knitting bag in such a come-hither way, I know it will be out and about soon!), a pineapple bag, and now a sort of cocoon/jacket thing: Jared Flood's Inversion Cardigan (on his blogsite, check out the March 29th entry).

I really had not intended to start up another garment, but then I saw the Inversion Cardigan….and I bought the pattern download and printed it out, admired it, recommended it to a friend, and put it in my drawer of "patterns bought online and printed out to be used at a future date."  And still, I was not going to knit it up just now. I just played with it my mind. 

And then I found out that JJill was out of the drape-front linen blend cardigan that I had been planning to order — it was going to be my go-with-everything layering piece.  Rats.  But, oh!  I have a pattern for an artsy cardigan that would probably do very nicely in its place.  And it would have the added virtue of being handknit, right?  All I would need is some nice solid colored yarn.

But although I was ready to plunk down money for a JJill cardigan, I found myself balking at buying more yarn.  It was not the money, exactly.  It was the fact that I have a number of projects going right now and so buying yarn for yet another project seemed crazy.

So, I went stash-diving.  With the rather superstitious idea that if I found the right yarn, then the Inversion Cardigan was "meant to be."  Really, I had little hope since I seldom (practically never) buy a cardigan amount of yarn unless I have an actual cardigan in mind.  Most of my stash is "ferocity" yarn: several skeins of different yarns chosen to go together in a garment-to-be-designed-later.  So, I have sets of coordinating yarns, not sets of matching yarns.  The chance of locating 1155 yds of worsted weight yarn in a single shade of my spring/summer palette was miniscule.  But a game is a game, so stash-dving I went!

And Shazam!