Blah, snow!

Too much snow outside and knitty.com's winter 2008-09 update hasn't come in. I'm tentatively awaiting for the day that I can click it open and no longer see all the fall stuff but am greeted with the delicious goodness of wintry new patterns to delight me this cold season.

So today and last night was all about snowing down in a torrent of white. Work got canceled and so I clutched on to the fragile, green lace shawl that I've been knitting as if it was the last bit of warm weather I'll ever see for a long while as Wisconsin is engulfed into the long wintry nights to come. I've a warm scarf that I've been knitting up for Greg for Christmas but given the amount of time we spend together in the evenings it makes sneaking around to knit it almost impossible. It's not hard juggling multiple knitting projects around for me; swapping out one project for another is almost second nature when facing the inevitable smorgasbord of winter knit patterns this season. However, it IS hard to be forced to find time for one VERY specific project that I want finished by Christmas only to be bombarded at every turn by my own sloth and likewise fancy for other projects when the boyfriend isn't around. Just as I manage to sit down with the difficult little two-sided colorway of the Uncle Argyle Scarf from the Son of SnB book.

The current boyfriend thankfully likes a bit more color than my past boyfriends who favored blacks and incredibly dark-dark shades of blues that nearly border on being black. Thus this carefully growing scarf manages to display in its own cute way a masculine evergreen as the main color and splashed with dashes of a curry yellow-green as its minor on one side while the other has it reversed. I can at least have fun with color in ways that won't bore me or be my constant struggle...like trying to find a color dark enough (and I mean incredibly dark) for a man but light enough to somehow stick out against a sea of black in anything I knit and likewise I won't have to stick to the monotony of a sea of black in a boring stitch pattern of stockinette for reams and reams of stitches since I've seen Greg's sweater choice and he tends to favor some ribbing here and there.

Yes, it seems that I've had to update my choice in men to suit my knitting. Other than the basic reqs of being a stand-up guy and a sweetheart there must be a list of colors they are willing to wear and an openness to cables and/or color patterning for the sake of my knitting sanity. Sadly asking for a man to be small-sized to conserve yarn is out of the question since I sadly favor very, very tall guys. Hmmm, makes me wonder about picking out chunkier yarns if I ever stand up to doing sweaters any time this century for a man. Perplexing.