Two conflicting thoughts:

I have a lot of Malabrigo Rios.

And two, I thought I had a lot more. (The greens, how could there not be more greens. Maybe because I keep using them all up.)

I do, actually, I have a couple of dyelot bags of ten and I have close to this many more individual balls that didn’t make the cut: I was sorting out the ones that had noticeable brown or black added to the dye bath. I wanted bright. (Which is why that lavender from an indie dyer.)

I’m not sure all these will still make the cut and there are a few that are so screamingly loud that they risk being that stuck key on a piano that demands the hands hit that one note again and again, visually speaking.

Most of these are leftovers from the ocean afghans so they’re not full skeins.

But what I do know is that sometimes you have to stare at something awhile and sleep on it a night or two while it seeps through the brain before you really get going on making something you’ve never seen before.

Which is why the plain-and-fast Mecha hat I started last night is almost finished.