The red and yellow soaker is completed!

• Pattern: Punk Knitter soaker (If you click the link, you get an "Adult Content" warning.  I guess maybe she has some adult content on her blog, but this is a direct link to the soaker pattern...No adult content on that page.)
• Yarn: home dyed Cascade 220, red trim: Lion Wool
• Needle size: 6 for body, 5 for waist ribbing
• Knit size: Medium
• Stats: 9.5" wide, 9" waist to crotch, leg holes 4.5", picked up 36 sts for 2x2 rib cuffs
• Used Kitchener stitch to seam flap of the soaker to body
• New experiment: Turned waist and ran an elastic instead of a drawstring tie
• What I like best about this pattern: It's quite easy to knit, knits up in a few days and looks good!

The completion of this soaker left me with no project on the needles!  I really wanted to get a start on the Daisyhead bloomer pattern....But I need to learn some new knitting techniques (short rows) to make it and well...I just didn't have the energy or motivation yesterday to learn something new.  <sigh> 

That's okay...I figured if starting a new pattern felt overwhelming, I would just start an older pattern...I found some superwash in my wool stash and contemplated this:  Perhaps the best way to answer the superwash soaker conundrum is to make a new soaker with superwash and see what happens! So, I cast on to make a 1932 soaker in the superwash....I've only knit about 8 rows....I mention that because I am tempted to rip it out and knit a punk knitter soaker instead......

So, how did I find this superwash in my stash?  I kinda when crazy and hauled all my wool yarn down off the shelves (It's kept in purple bins on top of our living room bookcases) and emptied them all!

I then sorted the yarns and labeled the boxes as to what yarn in what colors was in each box and then I put them back up on the shelf.  Amazing what you find when you organize!  I found plain old natural colored wool....Just the ticket for the Daisyhead bloomer!  That's what gave me the idea to start it.....Even if I didn't have the motivation to follow through and knit the soaker, at least I have the yarn for when I am ready!

I did knit something else yesterday....It was a super quick knit and I have it upstairs drying because I blocked it.  Yup....I actually blocked something!  But I'll keep you in suspense until tomorrow. (Also known as: I didn't take a picture of it yet!).

Happy Independence Day everyone! Have a happy and safe weekend!