Summer lovin' ... what'll I craft?

Summer is a difficult time of year for me to do crafts. Or, rather, it's difficult when I am trying to stash bust. Lots of stuff I could do, but nothing that I *want* to do. Yes, I have air conditioning in my apartment, but I'm frugal in some arenas (mostly with utilities) to a fault, and refuse to have it kick on until the indoor temperature hits 80.

In other words, I'm not going to do anything with warm fabrics until it gets cooler again. AKA: Why I'm sitting in my living room with a tankini on and a girly fruit/gin/tonic spritzer on the coffee table.

I have lots of lovely patterns to sew and make summer projects, but my stash fabric is mostly winter weights -- wools, tweeds, and heavy fabrics. Um. No. I'm not going to put myself through that, especially when I know I won't get to wear any of them until the fall, and with some luck, I'll have trimmed an inch or two from my waist by then. What's the point of sewing something, and then having it not fit?

And then let's talk the knitting. Wool, cashmere, silk, and more wool. A sweater on the needles, and a shawl on the needles that's rapidly getting big and heavy.

Would you want to knit any of those in a humid Pittsburgh summer? I certainly don't.

So I'm thinking socks to tide me over for the rest of the month. I found some Ultra Alpaca when I was cleaning out the craft room, and those should be small enough to keep me going through June. They're also small enough that I can tuck in my bag when I go to my night class, and I won't need to worry about having this massive thing taking up so much space. (Seriously. The shawl is huge right now.) This pattern seems reasonable enough -- there's lace involved, but the chart looks easy enough.

I feel guilty, though. I told myself I wasn't going to start new projects until the old ones were done. And here I am doing it, just to alleviate my crafting angst and heat-related misery (see above about the AC -- I'm not stranger to heat- or cold-related misery). I'm not buying new materials, which I guess is the point of the overall thing, but now I'm not getting anything *old* done.

*le sigh*

But what the heck. It's hot, and I'll make socks. My impossibly high standards can wait for another day.