Projects I hope to start sometime:

A "Shape-It" scarf from "The Knit Stitch". I am going to use Artful Yarns' "Cartoon" in the color "Popeye" (spinach green, of course). I bought this almost a year ago when KnitPicks put it on clearance and I've been trying to figure out a good use for it. I don't have *quite* the amount called for (210 yards as opposed to the 250 called for in the pattern), but I don't think it will matter. And now that I have my handy-dandy ballwinder, it will be easy to make it into a nice-to-knit yarncake.

I am a real sucker for Artful Yarns' scheme of naming yarns after famous characters or works of art. I mean, really: wouldn't you love to have a shawl out of a yarn named "The Amolfini Marriage" or a hat and scarf set out of "Lena"? I broke down and bought the yarn for the scarf I mentioned earlier - moss stitch made with one strand of Portrait and one strand of Cinema held together. I bought "The Postman" and "George Bailey" - both blues - because my main winter coat is blue. And also, I have to admit, because it feels like good sympathetic magic to have a scarf made with a yarn named "George Bailey." Maybe I will get my very own Clarence, to show me that my life really does touch others' in meaningful ways?

The "Cul-de-Sac" vest from the latest Knitters'. I ordered some of the Blue Sky Alpaca sportweight in sort of a burnished gold color for this - when I see the sweater in the magazine, even though it's knit in red, I "see" it in this color. I think this will be a "requires all my concentration" project, and my current "requires all my concentration" project is the Kat shawl, so it may be a while until I get to this.

A pair of simple socks out of the Cherry Tree Hill sockyarn in "Fall Foliage". Every time I look at this yarn I want to start knitting it up - the colors just seem so right for this time of year.

It's supposed to get cooler (I still can't think of highs in the 60s as "cold") here this weekend. Good knitting weather. I'm pushing myself to finish grading exams and revising papers this afternoon so I can have the weekend to myself.