I guess my vow that I would only craft from stash this year is well and truly screwed.

Miss Brittany asked for a new jumper (sweater) and I ordered yarn. It's all her fault, I swear! I tend to use red, black and white yarns the most and they were exactly the colours she wanted. I didn't even have a full 50gm ball of anything suitable so I caved and bought this from Bendigo Mills

200gms of red and white Colonial hand wash only wool and 800gms of black. I have no idea why I bought so much black, but if there's enough to knit an adult surprise jacket for her as well, then all the better because she asked for one of those as well, plus I can combine it with any oddments of other suitable black and red yarns that I have to make up the difference in the amount of yarn I'll need.

It's a crepe yarn (I think known as a cabled yarn in the US), fairly soft, and I'm hoping it will resist pilling and shrinking. I've used Rustic from Bendigo Mills before and I'm not a fan of that yarn at all unless I want to shrink my knitting on purpose.

Remember how I said, a couple of posts back, that we have no day to day use for mittens in Australia? She wants mittens to wear at break time at school as well. With skulls on. I'll be using my "Custom Fit Fingerless Mitts" pattern to make a "Custom Fit Mittens" pattern, which I'll put in the knitting wiki.

For her jumper I'm going to use Priscilla Gibson Robert's book "Knitting in the Old Way" and my standard favourite pattern for a raglan v-neck jumper. Ribbing will be bold red and black stripes with a black body. I'm going to have to knit the body pieces flat though because I Brittany wants a big skull on the front. For the skull I'm going to use the domiKNITrix free skull chart because it's fabulous.