Back from the Brink

I've managed to (mostly) recover from the cooties which have so freely made their way around the blogosphere.
This however was your friendly correspodent for much of the time:




(Swiped from Jesse Combs - go check out his art; it's clever and perfect for Halloween.)

I haven't actually knit for weeks - my hands are actually itchy. The last thing I was working on was a knit tie. Because I am a dang fool, I believed the pattern (IK, Winter 04)* which said
that the tie would only require one skein of Koigu.

And of course, the patterns was wrong, and of course, there is a massive variation in dyelots from one skein to the next,


(Excuse the blur - my photographer is sleeping)


So this simple, portable project has become much less so. If I were at full brain capacity, it would be much easier, but we'll see if I can't manage to pull this off.

* Surprisingly, this Shirley Paden pattern is the worst laid-out one I've ever used. I guess they were attempting to save space, but there has been more Bad Language while knitting this particular project than ought to be strictly necessary.