A Little Yarn On The Side

I have wool, an audio book, and we had pizza. Does it get any better? I've almost done one full side of the Fir Cone Shawl's edging: It's actually square with 4 straight sides--not curved--but it's really hard to photograph without taking it off the needles, and I think that's just tempting the knitting fates unnecessarily. Could WIP number 9 actually be finished in just a few days???

I HAVE NO STOPLIGHT KNITTING!!!!! ARRRGGGGHHHH! I always keep knitting in my car to work on at stoplights or in traffic jams. It keeps my little Type-A self calm and free from the desire to kill other drivers for their collective stupidity. And I don't have any. To be stop light knitting, a project has to be a very simple pattern that is easy to recognize at a glance. And my current projects involve a lace chart and a cable needle--not simple knitting, This is a knitting emergency! I'm going to have to plow through the WIP bin this weekend or take some time off from work. I don't think my stress level can take this! And, for Danielle , this is Calisto. She's our moth hunter, which would warm this knitter's heart if she didn't actually catch them outside then bring them in and turn them loose. Not that moths aren't better than Theo's vermin gifts, but my stash gets very, very nervous.

OK, Andy's Christmas sweater is about 40% done, and I really, really have been mostly faithful, but the Fir Cone Shawl has lately been my Stop Light Knitting--since I can't cast on a sock or anything that would be more sensible--and tonight it just needed two more rows before I could start the edging, so.... I admit that after the mohair-knitting-abyss that was the edging for the Lady's Circular Cape, I was a bit hesitant about doing ANYTHING that involved edging, but the number of rows needed for the edging around the entire Fir Cone Shawl is about 60% of just the rows of edging needed for the bottom of the Lady's Circular Cape. That I think I can get through. At any rate, it feels like something new to work on, and that little green stripe of yarn was actually CAST ON, so maybe I can pretend like it's a new project entirely....? Or maybe rows & rows of edging will drive me--screaming and tearing my hair out--back to that black sweater..... P.S. To answe...

I have just used up the 6th ball of yarn (out of 14) on Andy's sweater, so I think I'm about 40% done--or in a lot of trouble as I only have 14 balls of yarn. I'm still loving the pattern, and it's nice to be working with 100-meter skeins instead of 200-400, but the monotony monogamy is getting to me. There's a really luscious teal alpaca over in the closet that is SERIOUSLY trying to waylay my WIP marathon, but I close my eyes and knit on. Which probably explains the frogging I had to do tonight. Note to self: You are only talented enough to do stockinette or garter stitch with your eyes closed.

This weekend hasn't been very conducive to crafting of any sort, but I have manged to use up a little more yarn, bringing me to almost 14,000 yards of yarn--just under 8 miles! It feels good to think about how much progress I've made this year--especially when pesky things like housecleaning keep me from making any actual knitting progress.

I'm in the 9th month of The Year of the Stash, and to date I've used up this much yarn plus 6 skeins of this which I didn't include in the picture because I don't have anything even remotely similar to represent it in the picture. That's a lot of yarn. 13,885 yards and 87 balls/skeins/hanks. Tonight I am choosing to bask in the glory of having used up a really large amount of yarn from the stash, and I'm completely ignoring the knowledge that all that yarn really didn't even make a visible dent in the stash. We with stash issues must cling to what we can.....

Needing a little motivation, I was just skimming the spreadsheet of what projects I've finished for the year and how much fabric & yarn I have used up and I noticed the Fir Cone Shawl still only listed 2 hanks instead of 3. (I'm now actually almost halfway through the 4th). So I got to add 440 yards to my total without even touching knitting yet today! Whoo hoo!!!!