Dilemma

 NYGLS (as in New Year's Good Luck Sweater)

It is every year, and though in the FB group I say the rules are pretty loose, in fact the only rule, that we should knit something for OURSELVES, I am usually more stricter with myself. 

Usually, but there were a couple of years, when I was not holding mysself to my own rules, and though I know that things I carefully built and worked like hell for, falling apart does not have much to do with my good luck sweater, still... This is why, last year I did keep my own rules, and I have not knit anything else, but the New Year's sweater and my travel-kit socks, and the current scrappy neck warmer, until I finished the sweater. 

However, things did not get better, but, in fact, kept sliding downward... 

And now I am thinking... Just how much red sweater one uses? Oh, yes, I like red, it suited me with dark brown hair (when I was a child) with red hair, and suits my silver hair too. What is more, there is a perid of each year, when I wear red with red (hmm, aside from the fact that I like to dress colorfully and like variation, there are periods of eaxh year, when I tend to use one color or another more ... I might write about that one day). But since I work from home, I do not need to dress-for-office each day, I only need to dress up, when I go to some event (where we change as soon as we get there), a concert, a rehersal, dance class, shopping. 

Anyhow, I stop blabbing and tell you the options.

1) I did select a slip-stitch colorwork cardigan, in which I can use - once again- a bunch of red and gray leftovers. In fact I already bought the pattern, because it interested me, ever since it came out. But I just knitted a red and gray cardigan las year. 

2) I found some brick red wool/viscose yarn, which is somewhere between lace and light fingering (50 gramms 300 meters.) I have 400 gramms, I can find something really thin, lacy piece, I can double it up, or I can use it stranded with the white color of the same yarn, either striped or stranded, but then, which pattern?

3) I can take out the mauve-ish sock yarn, with which the white/light purplish one I bought at the second hand shop a few weeks ago would go well, so I set them aside, call it "almost red" or part of the red color-family, or something, and make the Renaissance sweater from Elena Mortensen. 

4) Totally ignore the idea of the good luck sweater has to be RED, and make the white thing I just fell in love, head-over-heels, so much I already bought the pattern AND ordered yarn for (DROPS yarn, not even on sale).

5) Or I can knit that Kate Davies sweater (ÁSTA SÓLLILJA), for which I bought the yarn about ten years ago (or so), and just found it.

What do you think? 

What would you do?