late nights, no sleep

I have stash.

I have a lot of stash. Believe me! I trolled Ravelry for hours trying to find something suitable, what to do with all this yarn?!

Inspired by the Maxfield Cardigan, I thought about how very sad it is that I do not suit yellow. Its so bright and sunny! How can it not look good on me?!

the maxfield

But imagine this sweater on me, mostly in navy as in the picture, but also with these colours: 

And maybe some sort of crazy stripe pattern? Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue, orange, yellow, orange...lather rinse repeat? 

I'm thinking, what combination would use up my stash AND make this suit me? Maybe if I did the body in the smaller stripes and the fronts in the "less stripe" option... 

This yarn is the Nashau Creative Worsted (now discontinued but still sold under Rowan's brand). The stuff is amazingly soft. It does split as you knit if you don't catch the whole loop but any mistakey loops sort themselves if you fix it then move on. One thing to note: do not knit in bed. It sheds like crazy at first, but once you remove the preliminary pilling layer it doesn't do it again, so over time it sort of felts together into this smooth soft flexible fabric.... dreamy.