Last week I saw a colorway of Handmaiden Casbah that I just had to have.  I don't know what it is about these colors, but I just fell in love with this combination and had visions of a gorgeous ruana:



Then I started thinking about knitting something that big on teeny tiny needles and I knew that I would never finish it. 

But, I just had to make something to wrap myself up in this wonderful yarn.  I played around with it a bit, and finally came up with a pattern for knittng a blankie (sophisticated people call it a "throw") using two strands held together.

Here are the beginnings of it:



I am using #9 needles and  I really like the way that knitting 2 strands mixes up the colors.  I like pooling, but I don't like it when colors come out in stripey little segments.  This avoids that effect.

I am doing a broken 2x2 rib and using a Fibonacci sequence to determine number of rows in each segment in order to give it more texture.  I'll write down the details later.

This is sort of an odd color combination, and I don't know why I fell in love with it so hard and fast that I suddenly needed a throw made out of it.  It is a huge investment because Casbah is a cashmere blend, and Handmaiden isn't cheap.  Normally I agonize for a long time over this sort of project, but this was just love at first sight.  I hope that the love lasts, because I am going to living with this blankie for a long, long time.