First day of Fall!

Fall is officially here, and even though we had some cooler days earlier in the month, the warmer temps and humidity have made a re-appearance making it way too warm for sweaters (and even socks to be honest) but  it's been brisk enough in the mornings to wear shawls.  I've been wearing my Bosc Pear  almost every morning since I finished it last Wednesday. It is lovely, and it makes a great neutral accessory. Really goes with most everything in my wardrobe.

Because the mini skein set was very generous in terms of yardage, I knit two extra repeats of rows 25-36, and then an extra repeat of rows 25 and 26. I wasn't sure that I would have enough yarn for the bind-off, but my yarn chicken gamble paid off and I ended up with 4 yards left of the last colour, Bison.  I adore Bison, it's this gorgeous rich brown, that I would knit all the things out of, if I got my hands on some in DK and Worsted weights.
I won't be getting my hands on any though,  I'm  still knitting only from stash, yarn diet! It's hard though, because, I don't just want dk/worsted weight bison, I also yearn to get my hands on more Party of Five mini skein sets, particularly in the  Sea to Sky, Swell and Graphite colourways. I would probably want to knit  another Bosc Pear right away.  Once I got over the "omg why so complicated" feeling when I first started knitting it, it was actually a really fun knit, and after several rows, was a pretty easy to read knit.
Anywhoo, back to the yarn diet, I'm only knitting from stash until January 2017. I'm back on the parent volunteer committee at school, and i'm going to be volunteering in the library again* so my knitting time will be (and already has been) drastically reduced. Under those circumstances, buying new yarn doesn't make sense.  I have lots of yarn to knit from in stash, and I still have 2 months of my Yarn Crush subscription, so it's not cold turkey.
I'm also operating on the theory that if I don't buy new yarn, I'll be less likely to cast on all the things. Is it actually going to cut down on the startitis? Probably not, but it's worth a shot?

Speaking of Yarn Crush, I'm due for my second box soon! I'm pretty excited, there was a sneak peek of the yarn on the forum and it looks so pretty! I'm almost sorry I stuck with Neutral and not Warm or Cool colours, because they both look amazing!

So lack of time, and a bunch of projects on the needles, I'm kind of short on FOs. I did finish one legwarmer though!

Very rainbow, much colour, wow! I  cast on the second one, but I haven't actually knit much on it because I decided to focus on Margot for a bit. I finally got the raglan increases finished and put the sleeves on waste yarn. I've got about 2 inches done on the body, so only like, 11-12 inches more. Deviating from the pattern a bit, I added some stitches to the body, under the arms because I am large chested, and I'm making a smaller sized sweater than I normally wear.  There's no waist shaping in the pattern, but I'll do some decreases when I get to the waist area, and then increase a bit at the hips. Nothing drastic, but not totally shapeless either.
After the sleeves were put on waste yarn, I tried on the sweater. I'm not sure how I feel about the collar. It seems a little high for my liking. I think I would like the sweater a little more boatneck-ish and a little lower on the chest.  I'm not sure how I would go about undoing the cast on...very carefully, I guess. I may have to research the best way to unravel from the cast on edge. Also, the sweater calls for 3/4 length sleeves. Not sure how I feel about that. But, I'm pretty sure I don't have enough yarn for full length sleeves. That being said, I love how the Candombe is knitting up!

The pooling, strangely, is not bothering me. which is a good thing, because I couldn't be arsed to knit with alternating skeins. Also, I swear, it looks way better in person.

My second sparkly plum sock is getting close to the finish line, I've got about 2 inches to go until the toe decreases.

Full disclosure; this is actually a picture of the first sock, but since they are identical and I have been slacking off in the taking pictures department, it'll have to do. I'm hoping that by next Monday I'll have a new a new pair of socks to wear :D and a new  take-a-long vanilla sock in my bag.




*Due to budget cuts, our school only has a librarian once a week, that means each class can only go to the library once every 3 weeks. If we have enough  parent volunteers we can get the kids going to the library once a week, which is awesome because many of the kids in the school don't have access to books at home, or have access to the local library. Volunteer duties include checking out the books for the kids on the computer, returning books to the shelves, covering the new books that come into the library and repairing any books that need to be repaired. Volunteers also read books to the younger grades. It's really quite fun, but it is time consuming!