I’m a huge procrastinator - always have been, probably always will be. I’m the person that stays up till 5 in the morning finishing up paperwork I could have been filling out all along. I manage to pay my bills on time, but that’s mostly because I’m fairly poor right now. Today, it just felt like there was a lot to procrastinate. Unpacking, for example. I have to move all of this furniture around in my bedroom to unpack my boxes which I do desperately want to do because every other day I think of something that’s in one of those boxes that I’d kind of like to have. The funny thing is, it won’t even take that long to unpack them because they’re books, for the most part, that were all packed in alphabetical order. Easy, right?

The other thing is more of a conundrum. I want to cast on for a pair of Galileo mittens - desperately. Linda sent me the pattern, I went through my stash and found the perfect yarns, I even pulled them out and wound them tonight. Here’s the thing though - I promised a pair of mittens to someone else in a side trade. And I’m excited about making those, I really am - but I’m so much more incredibly excited about these. Knowing that I have one pair that I’m dying to make and another pair that I am obliged to make kind of put me over the edge. So what did I do? I decided to cast on for a whole different project.

Clever, right?

I’ve been wanting to do this little number since a few weeks ago when Sarah told me what I could make with this single skein of gloriously beautiful yarn. It’s a quick knit too, another big draw for me since I don’t want a big project that would weigh me down - I already have enough of those in my knitting chest. I figured I could cast on, knitknitknit, and be finished by midnight-ish. (You should know, I decided on this course of action at about 10:47 PM.) The yarn, however, did not think that was a great or even feasible plan.

Here’s the thing: I don’t care what the Ravelry database says. I don’t care what Yarndex says. I really don’t care what the WPI told me (there were 11, in case you’re curious) - this yarn is NOT bulky. It might come up as bulky, true - but one skinny strand of mohair and thin string of shiny metal does not a bulky yarn make. No matter what anyone else says, I can tell you that this yarn does not work up as a bulky. I tried to cast on a few different ways a few different times, I went down a few needle sizes, I added on a few stitches. Work it did not. So finally, I decided to work this up with two strands held together from the same ball. I of course had to rip the ball apart to find the other end and then, naturally, had to match up the colour runs because one of the beautiful things about this yarn is the way the colours shift. All of that took awhile. But now I’m flying away with two strands held double on size 9 needles.

I might procrastinate, but at least I get things done while I’m doing that.