You may have noticed – I like green.

Just about any shade of green really, even the ugly ones – with the possible exception of really light minty green. See, I’m a natural redhead, and it’s something I just can’t help. One of my personal slogans is,

“I never met a green yarn I didn’t like.”

Thus it was that, for my birthday the year before last, several knitting friends decided to each get me a DIFFERENT ball of green MOHAIR: any color, so long as it’s green. (I also like MOHAIR an awful lot, but that’ll have to be another story.) BTW, no, I haven’t done anything with it yet – that was only April 2006 – it’s “shop ageing” in my stash.

[Note to self: Must find the perfect project for 8 balls of assorted green MOHAIR. I have an idea in mind from an old VK, but I have to go find it first.]

Anyway, so har-dee-har-har, very funny, girls. Green, green, green.

But really, I like to think I’m open-minded. I admit I kind of smirk at what I call “old biddy” knitters who are always knitting something blue, or purple. How boring! How uncreative! But the awful truth reared its head the other day, in a way that even I could not ignore.

I was really frustrated with a tank top I’d been knitting. I’d done the front & back, and sewed the side seams, and confirmed my suspicions. Once again, it was too big, too baggy under the arms, and I was fed up. (I think it has a lot to do with learning to knit in the wildly oversized 80’s.) So, I decided to FIGURE THIS OUT, ONCE AND FOR ALL.

I got out all of my hand-knitted tank tops, as well as a couple of purchased ones, and started taking measurements and checking fit. And while the subject of this post is not really proper fit – or personal hang-ups – in the interest of full disclosure, let’s just say that I am still coming to grips with the idea that my bustline isn’t really, in fact, a respectable 36″. It’s not even 35″. It’s a measley 34.5″. (BTW, I’m going to insist on that half inch, too.)

Anyway, as I was going through all these garments, something dawned on me. Can you spot it? Here is the list:

• dk green seed st
• jones ny stripe (which is teals, gold, olive & sage green)
• teal blue elsebeth lavold
• light green ribbon
• mint green ‘knitting olympics’ tank
• dk green anny blatt
• teal blue railroad
• olive green glace (UFO)

Yes, every single one of them is either green or blue-green.

Kind of freaked me out. Apparently, I need to get out more.

Actually, the most recent (and doomed) one is/was a kind of terra-cotta color, which you might think would have broken the spell. Alas, I have had enough of it – I gave it away to a redhead knitting friend, who has a rather larger bust.

The title of this post is not entirely original: I know I saw it somewhere. I’m probably plagiarizing from an article about landscaping or recycling or something. But I must admit, taken out of whatever its original context was, it fits me pretty well – “The Queen of Green”.