Upon careful review of my stash, it was decided that blue would be the best color scheme for the tree. I crocheted more of the little "hyperbolic" orbs last night, and I will be combining them with classic aran style cable patterned spheres. I knitted and unknitted about 5 testers, all of which were pretty crummy looking. At least now I know what I don't want.

I think I have settled on a basic style for the aran ornaments: a strip of about 15 stitches or so containing the cable pattern, grafted into a seamless tube and oriented horizontally, then I will pick up stitches along each edge and decrease down to a closure, sort of like the drawing at left. I will knit it tightly out of the same undyed wool that was used as the center of the other ornaments.

Last night I asked if Adam would let me put up a Halloween tree, but he didn't fall for it, so the new Xmas tree is still sitting in its box mocking me. "Nyeah nyeah! You can't put me up yet, even though today is the coldest day of the year so far!"