I have no idea where these knitting needles came from.
I had been oggling Ysolda Teague’s Peaks Island Hood pattern for weeks (actually I’ve been oggling most of Ysolda’s patterns for weeks) and finally caved and bought it. Three of the projects I’ve been working on lately have been sweaters and I needed some instant gratification (well, not instant, but instant-er than a month).
After waiting impatiently for the file to download (three of the longest seconds of my life), I opened it up and read through what I needed. At first I was going to splurge and buy some of the Green Mountain Spinnery yarn that she used, but then I realized that I don’t really need a $52 scarf. I might buy some anyway though, that stuff looks delicious.
I dug around my stash and found some Lion Brand Wool-Ease that I had bought during a yarn sale (because it’s so expensive to begin with) because it was pretty. The color is called seafoam, and it just screamed at me to be made into this scarf/hood. I took another look at the pattern. US size 10 needles. I was positive I didn’t have any in that size. My knitting needle collection is pretty sparse. I hadn’t really started knitting until recently so I pretty much just have single pairs of needles that I grabbed off the shelf because they looked about right. I decided to take a look anyway so I could pick up a few other sizes I might need for the upcoming projects in my queue.
And somehow there, sticking out the side of my knitting basket, was a pair of size 10.5s.
I’M SO CONFUSED.
When it comes to sewing stuff I have so much it’s hard to keep track of and I’m always running into things I had forgotten I owned, but not so with the knitting stuffs.
Anyway, I’m not really asking questions. I decided that 10.5 is close enough to 10 so I cast on and now I’m about five inches into the 27 inches of seed stitch. (The above photo was taken about 25 rows ago.) Yay for happy mindless knitting!
In other news, I posted some Jayne Cobb hats in my etsy store. Feel free to check them out and, you know, buy one. 🙂
Perhaps you inadvertently stole some from your mom’s supply of needles? You were living there when the knitting smote you, right?
Otherwise, the obvious answer is you are a sleepwalking knitting needle shoplifter. And it is a damn good thing that you managed to get the right size in your sleep!
Actually her needles are all part of nice sets so they’re very distinctive! These are plastic and just appeared out of nowhere!
well…now i’ve added three of the patterns to my queue from whimsical little knits 2. thanks for the enabling:) can’t wait to see your finished hood:) i think i may have that exact same lion brand green too!
Hehe, I have a knitting crush on Ysolda Teague. You’re very welcome!
And yeah, I know what you mean. Two hours of surfing through knitting blogs has led to my queue hitting 100 projects. I may need to do something about that. 🙂