a discreet flash...

Like the quick flick of a raincoat. Or something. At any rate, today I am going to flash a teeny tiny selection of my stash, but one that makes up most of its bulk. Namely, a certain eBayed burgundy aran yarn...


There it is. Plain chunky aran, in burgundy. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing particularly right with it, apart from the fact that I do have roughly a sturdy 600 grammes of it, so easily enough for a proper jumper. I bought it on one of my many, many eWhims, which generally take a hold of my fluttering fingers the second I see "pure wool" and "crazily low price", no matter how much yarn is actually on offer nor what weight it is. In my defence, I was also labouring under the delusion at the time that aran weight was the same as worsted, and hence the ideal weight for a jumper. But what I meant was, of course, DK, and now I find myself obsessed with a gorgeous little DK cardigan from Verena magazine:


Cute and elegant, no? Though obviously I'm not about to be knitting stuff in grey. But it is definitely a DK knit, and that aran is just too chunky. So...


There's this Rebecca jumper, you've seen it before. A nifty modern aran, and I love that nipping-in cablework at the waist. But the shoulders, although set-in, are still majorly sloppy, and if I altered the neck to a scoop neck the way I would prefer it might be even sloppier. Hmmm.

There's also this jacket from Verena magazine, which is distinctly different, and definitely chunky (though I would spare everyone the bobbles.) But once that tweed biker jacket is done (it needs a sewing machine taken to it, and I am terrified by the very sight of them), will I really need another chunky handknitted jacket? Or even a sloppy handknitted jumper? Wo. I am just much more into light, elegant, discreet knits in DK right now... but without the yarn.

In better news, I have just one ball of the Kilcarra tweed left, which should, I hope, be enough for a silly matching hat for the scarf, and the Tiger Eye scarf is zipping along. Just in time for the next suit outing? Who can tell?