Lentils

I'm knitting up the small amounts of acrylic in my stash, because I don't want to move them to the Frozen North. I got rid of a some of it via Goodwill, in memory of the years when most of my stash was from yarn leftovers donated to thrift stores, but I kept a couple of skeins that sparked my interest.

This long-discontinued yarn is the oddest color. I'm convinced it's from the era when kitchen colors were Harvest Gold, Avocado, and Almond. However, my brother-in-law tells me that it's the colors of lentils (except the black ones), so I'm going with that. If you should have such a skein, know that is sufficient to make a nice keyhole scarf and a pair of fingerless mitts:

Yarn: American Thread Company Dawn Wintuk Sport in "Citrus Spice"
Needles: US 4 (3.5mm)
Patterns: Martha Stewart's Knitted Neck Scarf and Megan Nordyke's Kenny's Flat-Knit Fingerless Gloves

Nothing to say about the mitts pattern - simple, easy, elegant. The keyhole scarf pattern had some elegant details - the edge is very neatly done - but the pattern on the website is a scream. Practically every line of the pattern tells you to "see instructions" for how to do what it asks - increases, decreases, dividing and recombining a row of stitches for the keyhole. But "see instructions" is not a link, nor is there anything on the page labelled instructions. I didn't need them - I've made keyhole scarves before - but I thought it was odd. It was a long time before I realized that the wordless, unlabelled illustrations at the top of the pattern were the "instructions."