I am suffering from serious knitting ADD. I have three four projects on the needles and they just keep coming.
- The Flower Basket Shawl.
This shawl from the Fall 04 IK is for my Grandma's 80th birthday so there is a deadline: September 10. According to Rose-Kim's helpful triangular shawl calculator, I am 77.5% done. I am making it with Knitpick's Alpaca Cloud, however I unwittingly went down a needle size. To compensate I am adding three shawl repeats and hoping some vigorous blocking pulls it into a good size. The photo above was taken in the middle of the ninth repeat (66.2% done) and it still looks awfully small. Only 16 (long) rows left to knit.
- Head Cover. These are from two Christmases past, but I never finished a whole set for my brother or step-dad. When I got back from vacation I thought I would start them so I always had one on the needles, however a snafu with knitting intarsia in the round has left the one I started stalled.
- Hopeful.
I am about six inches in knitting this in Microspun, which is hell to knit. The upside is that it is soft and pretty. The downside, so I have heard, is that it pills like crazy. While it is a pain to knit I can do it without looking, so it is great in-class knitting.
I am fairly certain that I am going to run out of yarn since I only have three balls of Microspun in turquoise. So I am calling upon you, dear readers to see if you have any turquoise Microspun in your stash that you would be interested in swapping. I have some Cherry Red Cotton-Ease. You know you want it.
- Airy sweater. (This project needs a better name)
I went to Artfibers on Friday looking for a last something for my Secret Pal, knowing that I would find something there that she couldn't get anywhere else. As usual there were several new and groovy yarns including the above pictured Tsuki, which is a laceweight silk/mohair just a tad thinner than Kid Silk Haze. KSH weighs in at 229 yds/25 grams and Tsuki gets 515 yards/50 grams. The best part? Where KSH costs $13-16 per 25 grams, Tsuki costs $16 per 50 grams. Nice, yes?
So, I see the yarn. I see the yummy brown. I see the sign that says, "Women's Medium Sweater takes 2 balls." 2 balls? Within moments, Kira had fired up the computer and we were writing a pattern for a deep raglan, ballet neck, tunic sweater. After several tries at a swatch I got gauge and cast on. Last night I joined and knit a couple of rows.
This is an illness, people.
This list doesn't include the Corset Pullover that I cast on and started knitting. I had done a couple of the decreases wrong on the first row so I frogged, thus it doesn't count. Hey, speaking of the first row . . . the stitch count seems off. The repeat is 6 stitches, plus, I think the 2 selvedge stitches. However, no matter how I do the math (count the selvedge stitches, don't count them, count only one of them) the stitches are not a multiple of 6. Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Then there are three sewing projects . . . all gifts and top secret. Of course, as with gift-making, one of them is already late and the other two are sure to follow.
If I could just quit my job and school, then I would have time for these far more important things.
I'm just like you; too many fun projects for my own good! Ah, well, at least we'll never, ever get bored. :) Sometimes I'd like to quit my job, too, but there's that pesky mortgage...
Posted by: Karma | August 30, 2005 at 02:56 PM
I have 3 projects on needles, and have said no more until I get at least 1 done. hope you get the shawl done in time... I love your hopeful. it's pretty... I'm doing the same color... but not with microspun, I HATE that stuff. Good for you being able to knit it w/o looking... I kept seperating the stitches when I used it.
Mel-- from your hopeful knitalong.
Posted by: Melanie | September 01, 2005 at 05:25 AM
Gee, I think it'd be very hard to walk into ArtFibers and not come out w. something - esp. when you look at yarns (like Tsuki) and figure that it's such a good buy and feels sooo nice and on and on...
I got some Tsuki for a Kiri shawl - 2 skeins. It feels so nice. Hmm, I could really identify w. you - lots going on the needles. ps - nice shawl start!
Posted by: terry | September 03, 2005 at 12:30 PM
I dream of going to Art Fibers. Let me live vicariously through you.......tell me more!!!! love the hopeful color.
Posted by: Bonnie | September 04, 2005 at 07:45 AM