I'm SO tempted.

Jimmy Bean's Wool has kits for the Grecian sweater from the most recent Interweave. And unlike the "old days" where some mailorder knitting companies would have ads for "knit this kit!" in the back of the mag, where it seemed like you could only get the color the sweater was originally made in, Jimmy Bean's has got a huge selection of colors.

I'm especially tempted by the Crushed Velvet color - even though I have, like, two burgundy sweaters already, another on the needles, and another sitting in my closet as a pile of wound-off wool. (What? Someone once told me I look good in the color.)

I also like the "Nightly" (deep blue) color. And even the olive, but somehow I don't think olive is quite right for this sweater. The original color? Not so much. Somehow, for me, this is a sweater that's meant to be a deeper color than a pastel.

I also kind of like "Bear" (a warm brown) and realistically, that would probably be the most "practical" color, considering how I dress. (I think it would look super in white, too - to carry the Grecian analogy even a little further - but white and me, we don't play well together. What with my tendancy to drop yogurt on my chest while surfing knitblogs as I eat lunch, or with my "oops...where did those drops of tea come from" habit of drinking, or with my tendancy to forget and do something dumb like make spaghetti sauce while wearing one of my creations, I think I'm better off with a deep color.)

I'm telling myself I DON'T like the light blue, because it's a discontinued color, and if I decide I want it, I'll rush to order the kit, or I'll find out it's all gone when I order....

I'd actually like it in sort of a spruce color but there doesn't seem to be a deep green there....I wonder, if I used the worsted-weight alpaca yarn I STILL have in stash from Elann, would the sweater be impossibly hot to wear? (Because then it wouldn't involve a new purchase on my part). I do think one of the drawbacks (for me at least) of the sweater is if you don't wear it with a t-shirt or something underneath (or wear it for only very short stints), you're gonna be washing that baby after EVERY wearing. And if it was a warm sweater, even more so.

Part of me likes the idea of using a yarn that's been languishing in-stash. But part of me also likes getting to try out a new yarn - and there will be fewer potential problems in using the called-for yarn (like row gauge being off). And darnit, I still like that "Crushed Velvet" color... I can totally see that as a Christmas outfit, with a nice black skirt or a full, slightly-different-shade-of-burgundy skirt, or with black slacks, or a plaid skirt...