I couldn't resist. I tried, but that darn fluffy Amelie yarn kept screaming at me from within its ziploc in my closet, "Hey, you! Yeah, you...whack rabbit with startitis tendencies. Put the
Holey Pullover aside for a spell and KNIT ME INTO A BOLERO. Go on...answer to the call of my soft fluffiness. Heck, you don't even have to swatch me. I got wee sleeves, so start with a sleeve. Go on...you know you wanna! Knit me a sleeve! NOW!"
So I did. Today in school, during a class that doesn't require anything other than listening to the teacher talk about
culture mode, I sat at the back of the room and knit the beginnings of the
Amelie Bolero sleeve with my hands hidden under the desk like a knitting fiend. Multi-taskin', bay-bee! And boy, this knits so quickly it's almost decadent. I'm already past the sleeve shaping. From what I've knit it seems that I got lucky with the gauge on size 6mm needles, but I'm going to wash the sleeve when it's finished to see if there's any change before I knit the rest of the bolero.
But what about the Holey Pullover?
I had a lot of school work last week and didn't get a chance to knit at all, but on Sunday I was able to enjoy some quality knitting time (with kir royal accompaniment) on the back piece of the Holey Pullover, and I got through the armhole shaping. I'm really enjoying this knit. I thought I'd get bored with the repetitive stitch pattern but I'm not even close to getting bored yet. Tonight I'll finish the back piece and if my work load isn't too heavy this week I'll get started on the front piece, or maybe a sleeve. (Yes, I'm still gonna knit the Holey Pullover even though I got all antsy and started my Amelie Bolero. I may even cast on for another project I'm dying to work on, because the yarn for several new projects are calling to me as well. A little bit of startitis now and then is an okay thing. Because I say so. Hee!)