What I need is Guacamole yarn.

Well, dangit!  That was fun!  Giving away Wollmeise is a guaranteed, sure-thing, feel good experience.  I definitely hope the recipients love their colors and enjoy the yarn. 

Plus, it was like a week's free blogging pass.  Now I have to actually come up with something bloggable.

So the movers come to destroy pack our things in 18 days.  My mind is constantly buzzing with "cancel newspaper get haircut take stuff to Goodwill pack school books vaccinate dog pack yarn...." and I have a feeling with very little effort I could find myself having a sizeable freakout.  But I'm working a delicate balance of organization, denial, and Lime Tostitos and so far the freakout has been avoided.

I've been trying to take a some time each day for knitting, because I find myself getting twitchy(er) if I go too long without a little yarn therapy.  The two projects that are getting attention are the Soleil Tank and the Shirred Rib socks.  It seems like I ought to be further along on both of them, but I am knitting slower these days.

Soleil has the bottom lace border done and I'm using CotLin on slippery Options needles.  If I look at it the wrong way, the stitches slip and slide off and it just doesn't whip along like nice sticky wool yarn.  I feel like I have to hold on a little tighter to the whole shebang when I work on it.  This may be the project that reveals that I like the idea of knitting summery stuff much more than the practice of it. 

The Shirred Rib socks are being done two at a time and that always seems to take forever, until suddenly you've got a pair of socks and you think, "Wow.  2 socks.  What a great idea."  But right about here, at the start of the gussets, it's feeling snailish.

Next week or so, I'm going to cast on for a plain, easy sock.  Just one at a time, done in stockinette or at least something totally uncomplicated.  They will be my Moving to El Paso socks.  But what yarn to use?  Seriously, there was some NummaNumma yarn on Etsy this week named Guacamole and I should have bought it. 

However, the stash offers a few obvious possibilites.

I could go literal and use Black Bunny Fibers in Tumbleweed.  This is one of my favorite yarns in the stash, but I think I need more color.

Both literal and colorful is Red Hot Chili from Wollmeise.  But I'm kind of thinking of using this yarn for Firestarter socks and even though I don't think they are difficult, they don't fit the mindless, simple category.

We're going to be less than an hour from New Mexico, so that made me think of the Misty Mountain Farms Jubilee in Navajo Sunset.  Beautiful colors and it's sport weight, so the socks would go faster.

There is the Cider Moon Glacier in Taos.  But we are moving to Texas, and Taos is in New Mexico and that geographical issue is too bothersome.  It is the colors of the Texas flag, though.

You never know what to expect when you move across the country.  I could get philosophical and use Dream in Color Smooshy, colorway Into the Mystic.

At the moment, I think I will likely use the Fiesta Boomerang in Raspberry Mocha.  The "Fiesta" part has got lots of positive El Paso happiness imagery working for it and it's a quick knitting, sport weight yarn.  Plus, Raspberry Mocha sounds like a very good ice cream flavor and I would love a nice bowl of ice cream after a hard day of unpacking.

One yarn I am certain I will not being using:

Yarn Pirate.  Lovely yarn.  But the colorway - Calamity.

To clarify!  I love this yarn!  It's gorgeous!  It's the name of the colorway that makes me set it aside until later.  Because, you know, Calamity is maybe not the word you want for the socks representing your move across the country.

Definitely not.

Comments

[Renna]

I envy you, so many gorgeous choices for your socks!

[klaus]

I vote you use them all at once and make insane stripy thigh-high stockings. (Boy, that would be...colorful.)

[KM]

I'm really drawn to the tumbleweed. But, it may blend in with the scenery too much. I'm knitting Rosa's socks (and yes those are top down...can you switch things like that?) but they are so simple and look best in a semi-solid. Or Krissy recently knit some Charade socks. Go for the RED. It's in the flag of the Lone Star State.

[weezalana]

I was going to vote for Navajo Sunset, until of course I saw the Fiesta. Those will give the move that "party all the time! party all the time! party all the tiiiime!" vibe to it.

Now, did I succeed in making that song stick in your head? 'Cause now it's stuck in mine. Dammit.

[Knitalittle]

New Mexico has some really nice wool shops. You might want to check out some cotton blends. Lace shawls are a must when the night cool winds come up. It can get rather warm down here in Texas ;)

[Tammy]

Tumbleweed! It's gorgeous... and a must! :)

[Denise]

Rasberry Mocha sounds much better than calamity any where you go!

[Jenny]

Get the Knitpicks Harmony needle set - smooth wood, great for slippery yarns - I am embarassed to say how many sets of needles I have, and I use almost nothing else since I got those!

[tiennie]

I'm sorry about the calamity! I had picked that colorway out for you because you said you liked greens and purples - together even. Sorry it didn't turn out to be right. Bummer.

[Holly]

So much pretty yarn! Too many choices. Whatever you pick, you know it'll be beautiful.

[Ava]

Dad was stationed in El Paso for his last posting, right after the parents got married. Mom loved it but made the mistake of revisiting about 35 years after they moved.

I'd use the Tumbleweed or Calamity . . . moving could be either one of those things.

[Lacey]

Yeah, I gave away my Calamity too. I like the colors, but I'm not sold on the base BFL. I'm iffy on the other sock club colors that have come in on Calamity.

But I'm loving the blood red and also the into the mystic.

Also-how did you manage to get a nifty, fitting post out of your stash? I could never manage that. But my sock stash still fits in one basket in my living room. I think I'm tame right now. :P

[Lacey]

Yeah, that second calamity should read "BFL" but it's 3:15 and it's been a looooong Monday. Forgive the stupid please. :P