the Paulie

Last weekend I was looking around on Ravelry and noticed a project that I had added to my queue a few weeks earlier.  I suddenly got the burning desire to knit it and to get started right away.  Post-haste!  But, it was Sunday night and I knew I wouldn’t be making the trip into an actual yarn store… probably until school starts back up again… so I decided to browse online for yarn.  Well, browsing turned to buying… and four days later, I have my yarn to start this:

The pattern is called Paulie and I’m so excited to begin!  Now I just need the needles I also ordered (from a different vendor) Sunday night.  I didn’t have a pair of US 2 circulars lying around the house.  Weird.  Well, not that weird – being a new knitter, I didn’t think one should knit with anything smaller than a size 4 needle.  I mean, really, that’s getting small.

I should also mention that I roped some other peeps into knitting this with me.  Well, knitting at the same time as me on their own Paulies.  Should be fun!  I’ve never done a real KAL (Knit A-Long) before! 

This, my dears, is my yarn.  It’s exciting to look at it, to touch it, to smell it.  I’m using Madelinetosh yarn, colors: french grey and candlewick.  It’s Merino Light, a fingering yarn.  And now that I’m looking again at the photo above, it’ll be pretty close to matching it, although – after looking at and imagining dozens of color combos online – I did not plan it that way.  Maybe subconsciously?

Different angle, different light, somewhat different appearance.

C’mon, needles!  Get here.  I am planning to knit up a swatch to check my gauge, that’ll be a first for me.  This yarn wasn’t cheap and I want to be able to actually wear the dang thang, you know?

In related news, Josh told me last night that he likes that I do old-lady things.  I guess that means quilting and knitting.  Obviously!  What’s not to like? =)