I realized this week, while waiting, that a while-waiting project is still needed---something that could indeed drag on for months unhindered, but also, something that needs only one active skein of yarn and few or no instructions. (Not a cardigan-puzzle, and not the MKAL wrap.)

The sloppy handspun that was a tourist-traveler gift is too uneven to suit Lille Kolding. The WIP is, or was, awkwardly dense with the needle size I was using, and if sized up, it'd become too floppy in Kolding's brioche section.

Now that the most recent bout of waiting has led to completion of a Grainwise, I think that the pattern's mostly garter-stitch construction might forgive the handspun's unevenness. It's written for MCN (merino-cashmere-nylon) and I've used a wool-silk blend, but it's fine if the handspun isn't transformed into something swish. It should just become something other than a felted lump or, like, compost.

Also, Lille Kolding is more boring than Grainwise to knit, for me---how the design is put together, not what the finished product looks like.

This type of thing is why we need thoughtfulness regarding diversity in all domains, not only knitting design, where it isn't really crucial. In other words, it's great that many different scarf/shawl patterns exist.

Pushing myself through making one Lille Kolding was okay. The process of it nixed my willingness to plod through Architexture, which was meant as a while-waiting project, sat for months, and then was undone last month. Several knitters have commented on Rav that it's soothing and rhythmic. For me it just feels tedious, and given that I must listen closely sometimes while waiting, any project had better not put me to sleep. I imagine that some knitters would find Grainwise boring or tedious instead.

Since the prior post had no pattern links, heh:

The jettison alternative to trying to make something that fits me passably, btw, would be to knit a deliberate bag of a pullover. Unlike Junko Okamoto's The Twigs, which I sized up, steeked into a cardigan, and then gave to my mother, Okamoto's Hana is loose, comes with a schematic diagram of garment measurements, and isn't a bunch of fussy (though lovely) colorwork.

I mean, I bet I could knit my mother a suitably chic Hana without blinking, though not for myself. Rather than give up before I start, a cardigan is next and not a pullover-bag. Davies' Yorlin has superficial similarities to a different designer's failed cardigan, Meris, which I tried, modified, and dropped a decade ago. Neither cardigan is fitted, strictly speaking; they drape from the shoulder-yoke, raglan for Yoris and set-in sleeve for Meris (though one wouldn't know it from the last Meris pic, a spring-green cardigan worn by the designer at what looks to be one pattern-size too snug). Yorlin's plain back should ease my task.

Though most top-down cardigans start in directly with the neckline, I think the only way through for me is to do a provisional (crochet) cast-on, to separate a tidy neckband-to-be from the looser stitches needed to traverse my trapezius---and to avoid casting on multiple times just to guess how many stitches may be necessary. It'll allow a neater finish, also, which is why some (actual) designers choose it, but I want it for its hacky, decide-later facilitation.