digression...

.....

this tangled knitter often wanders from the path on which she started...

a few days ago, i began the process of knitting a purple sweater for my son...

but several swatches 
and dozens of sketches later,
 a big purple ? still remains...

so...

i started a sweater for myself in the lovely grey alpaca i found several months ago in a charity shop...

in the round, on 150 stitches, it is the perfect mindless knitting project for basketball season (2 games = 8 inches)...