Crazy for wool.

Now what would possess a person, in the middle of a heat wave, where it is not only impossibly hot, but humid as well, to abandon the pleasures of knitting cool, sport-weight linen, and pick up wool on size 13 needles?

Tell me I am crazy.

I would whole-heartedly agree. 

The Decadent Fibers wool from last fall has come to life again, this time alternating balls in simple reverse stockinette stitch.  I am knitting a sleeveless cowl or turtle or funnel-neck.  I am not sure which yet because I am not sure about how close I will be cutting it with the yarn.  I have enough for the shell, and something leftover for the neckline, but I don’t really know what yet.  I am knitting in one piece bottom up, around the shoulders and back down and am somewhere in the armhole shaping right now but have not yet gotten to the neck shaping.

That is enough.  I can return to the linen.

I think I just needed something fast and colorful, something where progress could be determined after minutes of knitting, not hours.