It's not all about knitting.

I was overcome by yarn fumes? Hard to use that excuse when you buy online. Sometimes when I buy it, I have plans for it. If I were organized I would make a note of those plans and put it away with the yarn. If I were organized, we wouldn't be having this conversation because I would be doing something much more productive. When I saw the Lion Chenille Sensations in a Hobby Lobby in Stillwater, Oklahoma, I had plans, luxurious capes, sensuous shawls. Then I looked at the yardage and the price and revised my plans down to a luxurious collar and cuffs and I bought as much as I could fit in my suitcase and only little more than I could afford. And I stashed it. And then I found more colors at other stores and I bought more. And stashed it. I finally decided to bite the bullet and knitted a simple little stockinette cardigan out of the bright red. Wore it once. Discovered it was looking a little scruffy, stitches more uneven than I remember, some actual loops hanging out. Surely I would have noticed that when I was sewing it together! I washed. It got more scruffy. ooooh, bad! Went to the internet and discovered chenille's dirty little secret. It "worms", oozes little loops out randomly, not attractive organic looking random either, wormy, unkempt, disgraceful random. Looked online for solutions ... really tight gauge, stitch pattern that reverses direction like garter or seed stitch or crochet, holding it with another yarn. Well, that throws out all my luxurious, sensuous plans. So the Chenille Sensations languished in the stash. Such a disappointment ... sigh. A couple of times I made a stab at a vest with the Mocha, only to pull it out and put it away. Then a cabal member mentioned something called swing knitting. I did a google image search. WOW! I need to know more about this. Found swing-knitting.com  Bit the bullet and bought workshop 1. The project is a wristlet in a laceweight. It's August, the thought of even laceweight around my wrists! OK, no wristlets and I'm not going to use any of my hoarded laceweight on a learning project. There's the vest I tried to make with the mocha chenille. I do some measurements and a gauge swatch and lo, to make the vest knitted sideways in the chenille on reasonably small needles, I would need to cast on 80 stitches, the exact number that you cast on for the wristlets. The wristlet is a rectangle, the vest is a series of rectangles knitted together. Obviously, this project was meant to be.