Sometimes, you just have to make an executive decision.

I'm thinking of knitting Jaden (without the ties, with the neckline brought in a bit and without the top ridge since there will be no ties) using Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece. I have a bunch of white left from the pillows I made for the book, so I should be able to get away with just buying a few more skeins, which would mean that I could pay for most of it on my Webs gift card and finally get rid of it. (I've lost enough gift cards in my time to have a hefty paranoia about losing them before I can spend them.)

The thought is to knit it in white so I can wear it for Alumnae Parade at my 10 year reunion in May. I figure I should be able to find a basic, white, A-line skirt to go with it, right? If not, maybe I could make one without much panic.

I say all this now. Wait until May rolls around and we'll see how much I'm freaking out then.

Also, all of this means that I'm bailing on the EZ Knitter's Almanac project for this month. I have a hearty hatred for fair-isle, and while I'm LOVING the yarn (oh, the softness), I've knit on it TWICE so far and the month is 1/3rd gone. That's a grand total of about 2.5 inches on the body. It's just not going to happen. I have purged and reorganized 3 rooms of my house and gotten halfway through the morass that is our office/workout room/craft room JUST to justify NOT working on the Chainmail Sweater for March. It's the only project in the Almanac that I'm really not a fan of, so I'm going to go ahead and take a pass. I feel a little guilty about skipping it, to be honest, but I'm not being graded, no one is paying me, I'm not going to get fired. It's a personal goal and if it's something that is going to make me nuts in a bad way, then I should be ok with not doing it. So, yeah. I am ok with skipping it. It's not like the sweater is going to sit in a corner and cry because I'm not working on it.

Anyway, all of this leaves me with another problem, which is that I don't really want to start on it right away. I've gone down a size since the year started, and I hope to be down another by May. I don't know that it will happen or not, which is kind of the issue. If I'm going to put all the time into knitting the sweater, I want it to fit. So, I'm thinking I need to just not start it until maybe mid-April and see how things stand. In the meantime, I do believe I shall move on to the April project from the Almanac so that I can have it done and out of the way to free up the time to knit Jaden.