Sarah Blanch is off the needles.  Hopefully, I’ll get to block it tomorrow and take some blocking shots of it.  There aren’t terribly many of this shawl on Ravelry, and it’s a shame because it’s a very pretty and easy pattern.  The main complaint is that the shawl is knitted side to side instead of up and down, so the pattern repeats are extremely long.

My biggest problem now is trying to decide what to make next.  I have several options, so it’s just a matter of deciding what I want to do next.  I’d like either something more challenging to knit thatn Sarah Blanch, or I’d like something quicker to complete.

One option would be to finish translating Plaerdemavida and knit that up.  I haven’t quite figured out yarn since it calls for fingering and most of the yarn in my stash is either worsted or laceweight.  I have some heavier laceweight that might work, but I haven’t managed to photograph it yet.

Another option might be the voyager lace stole out of some pretty green yarn I originally got to make Kiri.  The yarn is the wrong weight for Kiri, so I need to find another project for it, anyway.  It’s too pretty to just sit in my stash, all sad and lonely like.

The colorway is called "moss". It would like to be something other than a ball of yarn.

I could get the oldest item in my queue out of my it.  That would be Muir by Rosemary Hill, which I’ve spent the past year trying to learn to knit well enough to attempt.  I have two possible yarn choices for Muir.

I could go with the original yarn I got to make Muir, which happens to be the recommended yarn.

ArtFibers Tsuki in colorway 09.

I got this yarn last year to make Muir. Originally I envisioned it as a canopy of leaves at midnight. I’m not sure I see that anymore.

Otherwise, I have some lovely green alpaca laceweight.

This is Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud in the now discontinued (of course) "moss" colorway.

It would make beautiful leaves, though the drape would be different than the original because alpaca is heavier than a silk/mohair blend.

I could cast on Gnarled Oakwoods, since I have the pattern.  People have been using Knit Picks Shadow with good success and I have plenty of that available.

Knit Picks Shadow in the now discontinued (of course) campfire colorway.

If I make it in this color, it would look like newly fallen leaves, and that could be very pretty.

I could also go for “quick” and make something from my pride and prejudice sock club yarn.  The options would be either the wine and roses mitts (now that I finally have the back issue of Interweave Knits with the pattern) or perhaps Bronte’s Mitts by Diane Mullholland (download on Ravelry, picture links to Kate’s version of these mitts at Confessions of a Graveyard Gypsy).

Knitting up a Storm's Pride & Prejudice Sock Club Yarn

I can picture either of those patterns in this scrumptious peruvian fingering weight yarn.

There’s also my current Knitty must knit it now need item: Versatility by Amanda Williams.  That would get made out of the yarn I originally bought for the Cherie Amour which was never meant to go on a woman of my particular shape. (Remember, round is a shape.)

Smooshy and wonderful Handpaintedyarn.com Merino Bulky in the one of a kind Persephone colorway.

If I made Versatility, I’d only make three stitch bobbles to make them less obtrusive.

Of course, there’s also Miriam Felton’s Icarus shawl, which everyone seems to have knit.  I think there’s a law that says you can’t really call yourself a knitter unless you make that.  I have any number of choices of laceweight with enough yardage to make this, but I’m most heavily tempted by

Zephyr in Pink Lemonade colorway by Sereknity

It’s almost too many choices.  I hardly know where to begin to narrow things down.