Other than DH’s socks, I’ve got two active projects going – Melville and a new little shawlette.

Melville (Ravelry link) is moving along! I have just started the colorwork, which was quite a thrill. I don’t think this project will move along particularly quickly, but I’m enjoying seeing the pattern develop. I like the contrast between the main and pattern color, so I think the colorwork will stand out nicely.

The other project is a little shawlette designed by Ambah O’Brien called the Triagonal Shawlette (Ravelry link). I didn’t have this project on my schedule, but I have all these miniskein sets, and Ambah just started her annual mini-munch knit along (KAL), so… This is a quick project, designed to use either a regular skein of fingering-weight yarn or a set of 5 minis. With all of the bigger projects I have going on, sometimes its nice to be able to just whip something out!

I just started this Sunday and have already finished 2 of my 5 miniskeins! I can probably be done with this next week. Unless I abandon everything else for the moment and just focus on this – which is tempting. But I’ll probably just keep it in the project rotation to keep everything else moving along too.

Do you sometimes just drop everything else to do a quick fun project, or do you mostly stick to the WIPs you have going?