It was the summer of the frog. I started and frogged so many projects. Why? I would start a project and get well into it and realize that it was not a colour I would EVER wear. I completed nothing.

I did, however, build up my stash to a respectable size. Can a stash ever be too big? I don't think so. I was on a mad spending spree of purchasing pish.

I have been organizing and fondling my stash and am struck by the astounding amount of pish in it. This will be the year of knitting all things grey. I don't think it's a reflection of my mood. It's actually that I came to the conclusion that, although I'm drawn to brightly coloured yarn, I would never actually wear anything done in a bright colour. There are a few exceptions of course (anything orange). On the whole, I wear a lot of pish. What is pish you may be wondering?

My mom coined the word "pishy." She uses it to describe anything black, grey, off-white, taupe, muted, even colours like dark plum, navy, burgundy or forest green. You see my mom likes colours like magenta, fuschia, emerald... you get the picture I'm sure. I am not fond of these colours. Although I do like emeralds in jewelry, I tend to wear more conservative colours - pish.

So this will be the year of knitting pish. I have a beautiful cashmere that used to be greens and pinks (ugh) and Mizzbananie dyed it to a beautiful shade of pish. There are lovely subtle colour changes in it. This is beautiful pish. I have a gorgeous cashmere that was a gift from Blacksheep1 that is the perfect pishy colour. It will make a lovely pishy Heartland shawl. I love pish. Now if only I could get excited about knitting with it.

My recently completed Equinox is a beautiful shade of pishy grey with bright colours inter-mingled. It is the best blend of my world and my mom's world. It's pishy enough to be worn but has enough colour in it to make it a fun knit. It was the one thing that I started this summer and didn't frog - yay!