knitting? yeah, that too.

I feel terrible. I havent been interested in knitting in weeks! The last time I knit was two weeks ago, when I did the first row and a half of a cinxia sleeve and realized my stitch count was off and I hated those needles. I'm back home now, with real needles I think I can love, but I just havent wanted to knit.
This morning I woke up with an extreme desire to knit fair isle mittens. Some problems; I'm not sure I have two colors of yarn in the right gauge for the kind of project I'm envisioning, and I've never done fair isle before. Both of these things will have to change, especially since I've become obsessed with these. know that those are not mittens. The mittens that I'm crushing on are the bird mittens in Vibeke Lind's "Nordic Knitting" book, but I'm not sure I'm in an appropriate knitting state of mind for following Lind's rather nebulous instructions. Right now I need something more clear cut, with everything written out and charted in meticulous detail.
Nothing like the new Knitty coming out to cure my knitting malaise.
This issue just isnt as entirely beautiful to me as the fall issue was. It does have its good points though and there are so many patterns! My unadulterated favorites so far are the Knecklace and Bristow, but I am also very interested in Tubey (I could actually see myself making several of those, without stripes) and, a little surprisingly, Tempting II. The first Tempting reminded me a little too much of a wrapped present, but the new one is absolutely lovely. If I knit it, I would make 3/4 sleeves and do the body in stockinette, ribbing doesnt work so well with my body type, and knitting it would be exasperating to me.
I also like the Pomatamus socks, love them actually. I might need to do that with my oil slick yarn. Spike is the coolest thing I've seen in a while, but I dont see myself knitting it. I looove Chaos, but I want it in my size! The thing that excites me most is Bamboozle. Why do I want to knit a bamboo box? I have no idea, but I really really do. And I happen to have a skein of Bamboo hanging around that will never become the scarf it was intended to be. Bamboozle it is.