The things I want to do next

I am still in polishing-up-last-year's-knitting (2 pairs of socks, a pair of mittens, and a hat) and working-my-ass-off mode. As always this makes me dream of what I want to knit next, or really, what FOs I want. Yes, I love the process of knitting, but the product is equally important to me. And I love to dream and plot and plan... about all the things I can't do right now. or have, as it were.

First up is shawls. I have two on the list and the first is the incredible Nymphalidea, available for free on knitty. I wasn't sure what everyone was seeing in this pattern at first but then a couple of them really struck my fancy, especially this water nymph one by knitviviknit:

I've got some blue-purple-green Malabrigo sock yarn and a nearly black Dream in Color Starry that seems to be underwashed in similar colors (I think it's Black Parade). That'll be a pairing of this:

(only it's more subtle and complicated rather than straight up bright purple)

and this:

(see that hint of color under the black? this stuff is really hard to take pictures of)

Anyway, I think it'll work out nicely. My LYS is doing a KAL for this project for the month of January, so this will be my number one priority to wind and cast on ASAP when I get back to my yarn stash (the 25th, I think).

The next shawl is the incredible Stripe Study Shawl by Veera Valimaki, and I was especially inspired by this yellow and red version by kristennn on ravelry:

I don't quite have the same colors but I do have two balls of madelinetosh tosh merino light that I've picked up in the past year mostly from swapping. My colors are copper penny:

and oxblood, which is in the mail, but which should look like this:

SO EXCITED.

Finally I really need and want a crescent-shaped lace shawl to replace the Wine in Summer I lost when the car died a few years back.
Wine in Summer looked like this:

although the colors were more accurately this:

I've acquired another skein of the Malabrigo Sock in the Abril colorway that I previously used but that skein looks more like this:

and I'm not sure if it'll turn out the same. Still, it was a quick knit (less than a month, and I was a newb then too!) and a product I wore all the time, so it's back on the list.

I am also fighting the craving to throw aside all my long-held WIPS and cast on some things that'll burn through quick stash. I want to turn every skein of worsted I have into various mitts and mittens so they are no longer there, and I want to knit all the dishcloths to use up my cotton. Speaking of cute dishcloths, though, I am in love with these guys:

and

aren't they just bloody perfect? I am sure I can scrape together enough cotton from my stash to make a couple of solid-colored dish cloths. They might even make cute gifts, if I can bring myself to part with them.

Finally, I am dying for some cowls. I wear the only cowl I've made for myself ALL OF THE TIME and it supplements my too-small-in-the-shoulders winter coat very well. Which ones do I want to make, you ask?

Another Honey Cowl:
(like pixiewear's:

except in red like this:

Though I have three skeins and anticipate using them all.

I also made this beautiful Hannah Cowl by Lion Brand Yarns:

But due to over-excitement I knit the second half of it extremely loose and had to rip the whole thing out due to gauge errors (and the fact that it was about 2x too long and stretched to me knees), so now I need to knit it again because while it existed I loved it.

I also have an urge to churn out a Duotone Cowl in bright neon colors like GarnetTearDrop's:

and a Circular Tube Cowl out of my Van Gogh Sock Yarn:

and some sort of cowl out of my starry night gradient set from Dragonfly Fibers:

Now that's not including sweaters... I want to knit a Poet's Pullover out of madtosh dk magnolia leaf and an Anzen out of a stockpile of some Patons I got for cheap, and an Iced out of my Berroco Vintage Chunky that I just got... and to finish the Harvest and the Takoma I started last year...

or socks or mitts or mittens or hat, the number of patterns for which are infinite. *sigh* guess I'd better get back to making graphs.