Two Olives

Project Runway, Episode 8:
The designers are sent out to photograph Manhattan, to find inspiration for their next desing. Kara Janx was inspired by all of the harsh signs in NYC: "Danger", "Keep Out", etc.

Well, I think I need this dress, if only to alert my friends, co-workers, and innocent by-standers that I'm potentially a walking pox. In one evening, I displayed such brazeness in the face of the mighty knitting gods and goddesses that nothing and no one can be safe from the fallout.

Last night, I made a brazen -- and punishable by wayward tension -- decision. Then I acted on it. I released Green Gable (and msyelf) from the hellish torture of the Denise Needle cords by switching to a 29" Inox circular. Not only did I go in for a needle exchange, but I went so far as to cast on for another project.

Cherry Twist!

Only my yarn selection looks more like the cherry stem, rather than the cherry itself. I'm using two shades of GGH Goa: four in a light olive, aquired on sale before I realized that 264 yards of yarn might not be enough to cover much more of my body than my cherries; and 2 in a darker olive/khaki acquired on credit at Yarn Central last night.

Maybe I'll call mine Olive Twist. Or Oliver Twist. Or Olive Oyl.

The plan is simple, which means that it's certain to go awry. The yoke and the bottom ribbing will be knit in the darker shade, and the body will be knit in the lighter shade. Let's all watch and wait for me to realize that 396 yards of yarn still isn't going to cover me, in spite of my plan to knit the body with less length. I do have one very light green shade on hold should I need to throw in a random stripe just to buy me proper coverage.

I'm not entirely sure how I re-discovered this little number from Knitty Spring 2003*, but I must have come across it whilst snooping through knitting blogs. Now, I'm certainly not claiming that I'm a knitting monogamist. Nor I am claiming that I'm the first knitter to play the project dalliance game, but why on earth would I abandon a great project -- made even more great by using needles with less "grip" -- for a little something on the side. Hell, Cherry Twist doesn't even qualify for as "a little something". This is a rather big something. This is a more significant affair of the needles.

Not only am I a cheating partner, I'm a lousy mother. The baby knits? One still awaits seaming, while the other awaits a gift for older sister. Please don't alert Child Services.

* I figured it out. I was inspired by Anne Marie's Blueberry Twist!