A li'l more knitting

Having finished knitting the front of my colourful jumper I have decided to knit the sleeves before I attempt the front. My thoughts are that the sleeves will be quicker to knit up. Besides, it will be easier to decide which patterns to use for the front if I have a visual of the patterned sleeves in front of me. And....the sleeves should be quicker and easier....right?

But...looking at the back all week, I feel that my jumper is in need of a li'l pick-me-up. No, I am not going to unravel what I have knitted, I have already unravelled and knitted what seems a jumper, twice over. I feel that the jumper is in need of a few more colours to give the front and sleeves a li'l zing. MORE!! I hear you all shouting at me. Yes, more.

So I popped out to the wool shop yesterday, to search for just the right shades. Ignoring the sales assistant's murderous glint in her eyes, I pulled ball after ball of wool out, endeavouring to find suitable colours. Oh, I quite understand her attitude, I mean, I probably would want to wring my scrawny neck as well, for upsetting the perfectly aligned packets of wool on all those neatly stacked shelves.

Have you ever tried to get the exact shade of wool, only to find that the one you really, really must have is at the very top of a towering, woolly, high rise, and when you ever so carefully pull out the chosen ball of wool, there is the rumble of a woolly avalanche from up high, toppling down, burying everyone!! Oh dear...but it was a tad humorous!! 'Tis a pity that the sales assistant didn't see the funny side of things....but then I have a very heightened sense of the ridiculous!! A little too heightened at times!

Now this lady enquired several times if she could be of help, but after her comment; upon eyeing my jumper of many colours, "mmm...well....that's very interesting", I politely declined her expert help with the thought that the colours she would point me to, would make my jumper even more interesting!! Such a dour and stringent kinda word, is interesting, when attached to a 'compliment'. (Was it a compliment...or was it not...don't rightly know.)

I wanted to sit down on the rather comfy sofa and have a li'l powwow to enlighten her on so many, many more fitting words that could be expressed. But, I decided that it was not the time to elucidate her of the "Kim Sharman words of the day", in relation to all things complimentary. I was more concerned with my mission of finding the perfect shades of wool and high tailing out of there as expeditiously as humanly possible, before she strangled my scrawny neck with some very thick yarn.
 

Enough of  "The Perils of Kim's Visit to the Wool Shop"; let us have a bo-peep at the sleeve.
 

I have used three of the new colours that I purchased yesterday. A green, a pink and a mauve, all still in the muted vein but just a little brighter to make the jumper pop.

The two patterns that I have incorporated are a two colour brick pattern and a  medallion moss cable which in essence is a simple cable with moss stitch in the centre. Easy!

I must say that I am loving these colours and when mingled with the back of my jumper, I am really, really loving them.

With my colour choices all sorted, and my knitting needles rythmically knitting into a groove, I envisage that the rest of the sleeve will be child's play. Have I spoken a li'l too soon? Perhaps I will have the other sleeve to chat about next week.....wonders will never cease. But for now........

Happy Knitting

Linking to Janine's lovely blog 'Rainbow Hare' for Wool on Sundays.