I have decided to bind off the green socks. The ribbing is getting to be very monotonous and very long so will have some tiny balls of that yarn left and add it to my 'frankenstock' yarn. If I had kept going on the staggered cable I would only now be changing to the rib section. Picture of them finished for next time as the bind off is only half done.
I was remembering how much fun I had knitting the 'Irish Hiking Scarf' and decided to try that again, so rifled through my mostly acrylic yarn. I pouted that KP sent me a small ball of the Wool of the Andes in the exact color that would be perfect for it and moved on. I saw this acrylic large ball of aran/chunky yarn that I caked a while back because it was a mess. I then saw how neat that was and looked at the AFW semi ball and wondered what happened. If I can cake that larger yarn...what the heck. I figured it out, my winder only has issues with winding from a swift with no even tension. Others have caked the yarn just fine so I grabbed the center pull end and voila! Perfectly caked yarn. Wish I had figured that out with the green before I started on it.
I decided to start the decreases on the hat and then realized it would be another situation of more yarn leftover than reasonable. Luckily I had only done about 6 rows and ripped that back and continued on with the 2x4 ribbing. Just have to be patient and rotate through other projects but I'm already beyond where I had started the decreases so it's getting close to the end.
Cycling through projects is actually good for your hands, just like having different branches in a bird cage so they exercise the foot muscles gripping different diameter perches like in nature. So ....
that's my reasoning for starting another project and I'm sticking to it.
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