Pooling Problems

First of all, I am back from vacation! My husband and I took the kids to Disney World followed by a few days at the beach. We had such a great time! My daughter keeps saying she wants to go back and I tell her "yeah, me too!"

I'm still plugging away on my son's sweater but I've run into a dilemma. In finishing the first sleeve I ran into an area where some serious pooling started to take place. I saw it there, plain as day. But you know how it goes, you think "Next row, it'll stop...okay next row...okay next row is a decrease round surely the lovely striping will return"

Here's the sleeve in question:



See that lovely C-shaped pool? Now that I see a photo of it in the light of day, ripping it out seems like the only answer. *sigh*

I did find a yarn store while we were at Cocoa Beach. The store also sold needlepoint and tatting supplies so the yarn selection was not what I am used to at my two LYSs. But I did find some Wildefoote to make socks for my daughter and Mission Falls cotton for baby hats.



Here is the first hat:



I used the Children's Cotton Hats pattern from "Last Minute Knitted Gifts" for the most part. I did omit the eyelet round and add some ribbing. The 2nd hat will use this blue in its stripes.

Men's Rustic Scarf from 'Last Minute Knitted Gifts'

Here it is, the first knitted item for my husband! It's the Men's Rustic Scarf from Last Minute Knitted Gifts done in black and two gray tones. It was a VERY quick knit - started Tuesday night and finished yesterday afternoon. I love the blips of the previous color that show up.

Now Husband would like a brown version. I love the browns used in the book but unfortunately that yarn is discontinued so I'll just have to go to the LYS and figure something else out. I've done some searching on other people's blogs and found where someone did a brick red with two browns, I like that!