A Little Yarn On The Side

I'm on track!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Two months down and 2 knitting projects & 2 sewing projects done! For those who have known me for any length of time, you'll know that my project optimism runs WAY ahead of my project reality, so this is a very exciting moment for me--and, frankly, one that may never come again. The Pi shawl is done, blocked and furred: I ended up making up an edging for it as all the edgings I kept trying didn't work with the color striping of the yarn. Variegated yarn looks wonderful in a ball, but it's a bit challenging as a real garment. Thankfully, I sew, so when I figure out what on earth one wears with a tie-dye lace shawl, I can make it. Unfortunately--I don't know what that is yet. This is all that's left of the 1760 yards & 4 balls I started with: (my center-pull yarn ball sort of threw-up) It didn't physically take a lot out of the stash, but using up 1500 yards of yarn did a lot for the stash mentally. Well, I do...

MS3 has a mistake! I have to rip back 3 rows. While I know it could have been much worse, this may move the stole back to the Time Out Bin For Bad Projects. It was SO close! Dem fischer sin fru is still on clue one, but in my defense, it's a long clue one. Ah well, at least being this far behind I can see how the shawl is turning out and can be assured that I don't have another MS3 on my hands. I started the poncho's second side and have 1/6th of the new side done. The Pi Shawl is almost done!!!!! I COULD STAY ON SCHEDULE!!! Which really makes no sense--why am I working this hard to try to finish one project every month? Should hobbies really have deadlines? Obviously, this is what happens when Type A personalities knit. I cast on another sock. Besides needing a portable project (5 rows at stoplights every day can really add up), I have a lone sock sitting on my desk and if I finish it's mate it can be put back in the Gift Bin rather than continuing to sit on my...

First, I should probably come clean about the last post--the picture of the closet is not actually the whole stash. It's just the only part I'm willing to post pictures of--the rest is not even HALF so neat and orderly and has, in fact, overflowed (just a little) to the back room. The large pile of fleece that is teetering precariously on the table beside my computer....I'm not ready to talk about that yet. The first part of the birthday poncho is finished & blocked, though I am willing to finally admit that it doesn't have a glimmer of a chance of being finished by Monday, though I reserve the right to be delusional enough to consider Friday. Today I started on the February sewing project-- flannel-backed satin pajamas for me. Boise has finally gotten serious about winter and sleeping in regular flannel pajamas with flannel sheets has a bit of a velcro-effect. Other progress updates: 30 rows left TOTAL on the MS3 mystery stole!!!!!!! Everyone else's might b...

I have survived the first month of the Year of the Stash!!!! OK, it's a little hard to tell that there's any progress just yet--maybe the closet is a little less overflowing. But almost 13 yards of fabric and 17 skeins of yarn have been used and are no longer "stash." And I finished both "January" projects--the pink sweater & pajamas for Andy--so I'm mostly on track. I say mostly because the poncho is not going to be done on time. OK, it was a long shot, but there was a slight/dim/tiny chance--perhaps if we were snowed in for the next few days???

Sometime between adding the original post and this evening my pictures had all disappeared. Bet you thought the lack of new yarn had just muddled my senses enough to make my writing incoherent, huh? Well, that may indeed be the case, but another skein of 197 yards has just bitten the dust. I may be going through withdrawals, but I'm still able to knit!