FO: One Skein Wonder

Tuesday (or maybe it was Wednesday) I started knitting Stefanie Japel's  one-skein-wonder. I finished it this morning.  It wasn't a one skein for me,  if you're on the larger size, I'd recommend having a little extra yardage. It was, as advertised, a quick and easy knit. 
EXCEPT  the seed stitch. I've said it before, I hate seed stitch. I like how it looks, and technically speaking I know how to knit seed stitch. Invariably though, I end up with ribbing. I've watched numerous videos. I've knit seed stitch swatches. I can "read" my knitting. Ive kept track in a notebook...I start off okay and then i notice I'm ribbing. Or I've got little patches of ribbing in between seed stitch.  It doesn't matter if I'm not distracted, or if I'm talking with friends, or watching tv, seed stitch just doesn't happen for me.  If I could find a friend willing to do any and all seed stitch and then let me knit the rest, I would.

Anyway, the seed stitch on OSW is minimal and I still messed it up, so I had to tink back. Cursing all the while. Fuck seed stitch, I'm going to do ribbing. Easy peasy!

 Pretty MadelineTosh in Georgia O'Keefe:

 Starting OSW: 

Close up of the colours:

A little seaming and some sleeves!

All around ribbing and then binding off:

Back view: (bonus: unkempt toes!)

Front view:

I'm letting it soak in some Eucalan at the moment. After it dries I'll take a picture of it on-it's very cute. I may make some more in different colours.

I'm not sure what to start knitting now. Maybe I'll take a break for a couple of days, decide if I feel like knitting anything. I still have socks on needles to finish and lots of stash yarn. I've been eyeing  miette for months but it doesn't come in my size and i'm not confident enough to adjust the pattern. I wish wish wish someone would come along and add just one size up!
After some casual looking on Ravelry, it seems as if the woman who wrote Miette also wrote a pattern called myrna. Very cute little cardigan and it comes in a wider range of sizes. hrmmm...would need to do some yarn shopping though. I'd like to have a little cardy in either a very pale pink or a deep cerise-not fuschia or cotton candy.


Oh! I almost forgot, pictures of yarn brought back from Scotland and Ireland:

Isn't that grey yarn just stunning? It's very soft. I'm going to try and find out what kind of yarn it is through ravelry. The blue yarn looks to be an aran weight, so maybe a hat and mitts, or double (or triple) it up and make some slippers. The grey yarn looks like a dk weight, or very light worsted-and I have no idea what to do with it. It's very lovely.