What to next

Am having trouble finding exactly what I want to make next.  Many of the projects are rated Intermediate and I'm not quite there yet!  I have a baby project to make for a friend at work but haven't found the yarn I like - most of the acrylic/nylon numbers make me shudder - definitely a natural fibre person!  I have located some Patons Haze which is a cotton/acrylic mix which might do nicely but it's not the colour I want.... I have also started some small christmas projects.... I know it seems early but it will be here before we know it.  I have been waiting for finer weather to block my purple scarf - it's finished but wanted to block it particularly the end sections which are circles.  Have yet to join the corkscrew scarf.  Have definitely been putting off my assignment for my pattern cutting course, it's part of a dressmaking and pattern cutting course (distance) but I am really disliking the pattern cutting section, sigh.