Last week (or was it the week before that?), I promised a friend I’d make her a set of armwarmers. Great, I thought, an easy project which I could whip together in a week or two as I work on finishing up my sweater. Well, I suddenly had two issues: 1) I somehow managed to become re-enamored with my sweater and 2) I have no clue what pattern or yarn to pick.

I’d had the pattern problem before, when making arm/wrist warmers for another friend. I got it down to 22 choices from which I had her choose. There’s a whole post about it here.

So, I could just point Lora there and have her pick a pattern but that doesn’t settle the “but what yarn?” portion.I’m down to very few yarny options in my stash (and have no time to go pick anymore up for the next few weeks). Silly stash knitting I’ve been doing.

I’ve got two super bright colors of Neighborhood Fibre Co Studio Sock: Copper Circle (bright oranges) and Clintonville (bright greens). Either would produce nice, lightweight gloves that, certainly, couldn’t be missed.

I’ve got a couple of colors of Berroco Weekend, a worsted cotton/acrylic blend that’s great for texture but not great for cables or lace. (I’ve got a dark blue, light purple, and maybe a light blue hanging around.)

Then there’s that skein of dark turquoise Eco Wool that would mean rather warm and fuzzy armwarmers.

And a single thing of Berroco Vintage I’ve held onto for more than 2 years in a different shade of dark turquoise/teal.

Oh, those two skeins of light blueish-greenish Berroco Vintage DK from the first sweater I tried to make this fall. You know – the one that turned out a good 12″ too large?

Last, a skein of greens and blues that’s in a rather thin sock yarn.

But, really, that’s it.

I have no clue what to do.

So, Lora, what color would you prefer? Any patterns in my list (or on Rav) that you like?

That’s the bright orange Neighborhood Studio Sock and Eco Wool. Too lazy to take photos of the other options right now as I’m comfortably sitting in the living room, watching Matt play (and mostly fail at) Battlefield 3.