What to Do?

What to do?  I need a new reenacting handiwork project.  The problem is, I am not really in the pure state of "in between" projects.  No, that would imply I have either completely finished whatever I was working on or had utterly abandoned the last project.

Neither statement is true.  I have a pair of socks I am knitting stuffed away in my knitting bag, languishing at the "pick up stitches on the heel" stage - at least that's where I think I am.  My gut is afraid I have progressed past that and have dropped stitches somewhere.  These will be lovely socks - when I finish them  - I dyed the wool with shag bark hickory husks.

Then there's the Norwegian Morning cap I started with a Civil War Knit-along.  The cap itself is knit and I'm very happy with it.  I have to crochet the edging - and crochet is not my favorite handiwork.  I have to look up the stitches every time.  I've been avoiding starting - the perfectionist thing again, I think, but there is a realistic fear of botching up a nice piece of knitting. 

But our next Civil War reenactment is just around the corner, and it is one that not many civilian reenactors attend, which leaves me up to my own devices.  I need to have a new project to bring with me!  I like having busy hands while I am there, especially because it gives me something to talk about with spectators.

So, with great resignation, I practiced the crochet stitches I need for the cap trim, only to find out that I don't have the correct size hook.  Of course I practiced on a heavier weight yarn using a larger hook, since the project uses lace weight yarn.  Today I will purchase my hook.

I also looked up the KAL (knit along) instructions for the knit undersleeves.  Since I was planning on knitting those in white fingering weight wool, I have the materials I need.  Sadly, I am in the Knit After or Knit Behind stage - the blessed ladies of the KAL are 3 projects ahead of me.  Of course I know I could just jump right in  with the current project, which is double knit wrist warmers, but I already have a pair of wrist warmers.  Not double knit, but I would rather work on the undersleeves at this point, since I have no knit ones.