Coming Up Next
I’m always working on some project or another, and most weeks I talk about what I’m working on Wednesday evenings as part of Tami’s WIP Wednesday project. You can see other WIP Wednesdays … here.
There are currently three ideas fighting for the spot of next to be cast on.
These two skeins of Tosh Merino Light want to become a large sweeping shawl which incorporates two alternating stitches of some kind.
Three skeins of Plucky Knitter here. Two “Sticky Toffee” in Traveler, and one “Chlorophyll” in Primo Finger. Wanting to be a garter stitch square shawl with a slit from the center to the hem (same shape as Spider Silk) with a striping sequence and strategically placed stitch motifs throughout.
The final idea is one skein of Tosh Merino light that I want to make into a shallow triangular shawl, maybe with eyelet rows every now and then. Keeping the overall design simple.
Of course there are tons of other skeins also shouting “cast me on, cast me on.” These just happen to be the loudest. Have an opinion? Let me know!
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Christmas Knitting
So I’ll keep this short because I need to get back to Christmas knitting.
Two shawls, one hat, five days till Christmas. Totally a good idea.
So far I have half a shawl. This is still a good idea (or so I keep telling myself.)
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Blog Silence… Must Mean Something is Going On
The funny thing about blogging, at least for me, is that I blog when I have time. I don’t have a schedule, I tried that and failed miserably. Then, whenever there’s a blog silence, I think to myself every week or so that “I should really put something up” but then the silence continues because somethingelse comes up. Because as it turns out I blog when I have time. I’m writing this on the train, on my way into work. (Now, it’s a few days later now, and I’m just getting back to add photos and edit.)
But the catch is I almost never seem to have free time, but I don’t have free time because I’m busy (at least part of the time) doing the things that I would be blogging about. Of course a lot of the time is spent doing boring non-blog related or blog worthy stuff (laundry anyone?). But some of that time is spent knitting and designing, and making or doing cool stuff, like decorating my new apartment. (Yep, I moved. Again. For the third time this summer.)
So if I were blogging in my limited amounts of free time this last month, there would have been nothing to blog about. I’m mean my last post was just a picture of a lot of boxes and a “sorry, can’t blog, I’ll do it later.” But now it’s been a month and a half and I haven’t blogged, and I feel terrible. So I’m sorry my poor neglected little blog.
But on the plus side I did get a whole heck of a lot done.
I moved. Again.
I finished a bunch of stuff.
From bottom to top. Kora. Asymmetrical Bluebells. Eirwen. Ghosts & Mirrors. and Very Berry. I’ve written about all of these before mostly under different names, or under no name. Except for Very Berry (which seriously needs a new name), it was done so quickly that I never got a chance to blog about it.
I started some stuff.
Another sample for my Arrowhead Stole in Tosh Lace colorway lapis.
A new hat that I’m working on, probably with some sort of cable design.
And I (sort of) made a smidge of progress on one WIP.
Only a few more rows to go on the shawl with a thousand beads.
I bought also some stuff.
Melissa Leapman’s book Continuous Cables, which I mostly got for the stitch dictionary at the end of the book. I think I’m going to play with some of these cables for the hat that I’m working on.
A skein of Manos Lace in “L2435 Aivina Aqua.” For another geometric lace stole with a garter stitch border along the same lines as Ghosts & Mirrors.
Two skeins of Wool Candy in “Gothic.” For an asymmetrical (not so) little something of a shawl.
And a skein of Scrumptious Lace in “Cherry.” Just because it was pretty.
So, so long and until next time my little corner of the Internet. I’ll try to get back to you soon. And I’ll try for a bit more balance between creating and writing about it.
