Spring Fever

It's been in the 70s the past couple days here in the south east corner of Michigan, and I think I have spring fever. Combine that with the on going effects on my system of Day Light Savings Time's Spring Ahead, and I haven't been getting much done. I did finish a couple hats and a baby afghan for our K4 project:



And the reclaimed ramie / cotton blend from the sweater that I took apart last week has dried and is now rolled into balls.



It seems to have shrunk from being washed in hot water as the hanks that came off the swift didn't want to go back and and I had to resort to draping them around three of the arms and over the fourth. I'm still not sure what I'll do with the yarn as this was a 10¢ experiment, but I think I'm glad that it shrunk in the hank and not after I knit it into something. I've been looking at this pattern from Knitty, but I think the gauge is a bit small for this yarn. Maybe it's time to dig out my Elizabeth Zimmerman books and design my own pattern? [You might notice that over there in the sidebar there's a button and a link to a new Elizabeth Zimmerman Fan group.] I like neck down patterns and given that I don't know the yardage that I have with this yarn (or how often I'm going to have to snip out bad sections where one or more of the six thin strands that make it up have broken), knitting top down seems sensible. Once the yoke and sleeves are done, I can continue knitting until I run out of yarn and really, really hope that the sweater turns out longer than the Bad Penny one (or that my jeans ride higher {g})