Knitting Frustration

The Good News: My favorite yarn, Reynold's Blizzard has come out with new colors! And Yarnware (online store) is having a 25% off sale. Plus, new patterns have come out. I like this yarn and the designs enough that I was struck by an impluse to try knitting one of them. The one sweater thingy is listed as "intermediate" difficulty. Sounds like a trial and error, but doable situation.

The Bad News: This yarn is still expensive and the new colors are not on sale. Even worse, from past experience I know that the internet swatches do not look like the real-life swatches. Moreover, I don't know if I have the time for this. I might. And I wouldn't mind making scarves for people just because I enjoy it and I can read while doing it. But - it's still expensive. If I was going to consider the scarf, I would need to find a knitting store that stocked Reynold's Blizzard. I might do a google search just to see the availability, but I think the expense plus everything else makes this an unlikely plan.

Bleah. Technically I should be working on that afghan, but it takes me approximately 6 hours to finish one square, and I can't focus on anything else when I do it. The pattern is tricky and the tension is a bitch on that thing. You can't like the floss twist around itself, because it screws up the filling.