Gauge the Situation: Fingering Weight Options

The price I may pay for a truly awesome New Year's Eve (and, trust me, I'm not into this holiday on any grand scale) is the crappy cold that's so going around. Don't pity me. I went in with open eyes. I drank that booze and ate that sugar and fat and flour and dairy and côte de boeuf. OMG, the côte de boeuf... I danced around like a banshee. I yelled dirty jokes across the room. I stayed up late. I stayed out. I walked home in the cold. (And who knows, I may stave if off with a couple of days of doing nothing, my new and only activity till the weekend. If nothing else, it would be novel to have a common bug, for a change :-)) Just please don't tell my mother.

There's an alchemy in long-standing friendship, a peaceful, playful camaraderie. The best thing about aging, I suppose, (in addition to the improvement of one's intelligence and skills for all of the extra time to learn) is the opportunity to know the people you've loved for that much longer.

At any rate, blogging is one of those things I can happily accomplish while sitting on my ass.

Let's get back to the Gauge the Situation series. You know, that endless trail of posts wherein I talk about the outcomes of making 4 sweaters of different weights (fingering, sport, DK and worsted) and discuss the merits and detractors of each.

Thing is, I can't say no to any sweaters so I've actually knit 3 others that weren't in the queue. And a couple of scarves. What? There's no deadline!

But now we're back to it - to the last of the 4 weights and the slimmest - fingering. I really want to ask you for your impressions of the options which are to follow but I fear it would be disingenuous because, truthfully, I'm almost half way through the fingering sweater I long ago decided to make. Of course, your feedback is incredibly appreciated and useful on so many levels, but I have a bunch of rationales for the one I chose.

Instead, perhaps you'd indulge me by guessing which one of the following you think I chose:

Obsidian by Lisa Mutch

Raiun by Kirsten Johnstone

And then my (apparent) pictorial-ode to vintage-knitting queen Susan Crawford:

Princess Twinset Jumper

Sun-Ray Ribbing

Knitters Delight

 And here's the yarn I'm using (lots more on this to follow):

Jade Sapphire Mongolian Cashmere (100%)

I'd love it for you to tell us which one you'd make or have made or which you think I should have chosen! I'll let you know if you called it right tomorrow! :-)