A Little Yarn On The Side

About one hour ago, I finished the last seam on this baby..... and it's a bit big.  I think I'll eventually redo the collar seam at the "V" and I'll see what blocking does for it.  If that doesn't solve the problem, I'll be frogging and making something else with this yarn.  I've hung onto it for possibly 10 years now--I'm getting a sweater out of it, dang it! Of course, it might be fine once I fix the neck.  It was 95 degrees yesterday and today, and thanks to a mouse that Theo brought in and lost when it crawled into a crack underneath the bathroom cabinets where we can't get at it, we have eau de dead mouse permeating the upstairs of the house.  If we close the windows so we can turn on the air conditioning, the stink is unbelievable.  So, we have all the windows open and roast, we're hot but it doesn't stink.  I wouldn't have automatically guessed it, but it seems hot beats stinky hands down.  So, I had this sweater on for ...

And I'm onto the seams: which is really the worst part of the whole thing, and if I didn't have an absurd goal for the number of projects I can finish this year, there's a good chance this sweater would be remaining in this stage for an extended period of time.  Partially to reward myself and partially to preserve my sanity, I cast on a pair of socks last night: They're going to be relatively plain toe-up socks for Andy.  The yarn has been in my stash for at least 5 years, and I think could be accounted for in my I-just-learned-to-knit-socks buying frenzy.  It's not bad yarn (Schachenma  Nomotta Regia Strato), but I'm not wild enough about the colorway to explain why I had enough of it for 3 pairs of socks.  Thankfully, one pair was made some time ago, so I'll make a pair for Andy and one for me and can get to that "44 all used up" mark in Ravelry.   I am going to give myself credit for reaching my stashdash goal.  I went from this to th...

The pink sweater.  Still.  And I'll be working on it tomorrow as well.  The same pink sweater I worked on yesterday.  And the day before. NOW I know why I work on so many projects at once.  It's not really  my knitterly ADD.....it's really so I don't bore my blog readers to death. See, isn't that nice of me?

Yes, it really is sort of painful to say this, but Martha Stewart really does have some good ideas: Portable Picnic-Utensil Roll - Martha Stewart Sewing Projects

I finished the last of the dishcloth yarn in my stashdash basket last night, so now with 8 days left to go I just have the pink sweater.  BUT I'm doing the 3/4-length sleeves two at a time, and I just switched from the 3-inch ribbing to the main pattern.  It is possible.  The REAL challenge, of course, will be to see what gives out first--my desire to finish a project or my new project lust that makes me want to cast on ANYTHING but this pink sweater!

I have finished the front of the pink sweater, and have cast on for the sleeves--which means I'm showing some dedication to a single project.  Obviously, this is not normal for me, and perhaps it may be said that when I get bored I am at my most dangerous for coming up with purely idiotic ideas.  Of course, coming a close second could be when someone lays down a challenge--that does account for both the current 111-project mania and the Double Dog Dare WIP mania from a couple years ago.  I'm not sure who should take the blame for the Ravelympic madness , though someone besides myself would be preferable.  So, with this past history of maniacal behavior, and my recent spate of project monogamy, something was bound to snap.  So there I was, probably barely clinging to reality--and there might have been a glass of wine involved--and Andy and I were on the patio having dinner, and Andy asked how the progress on the sweater went during Finishing Friday, and asked...

So, the "Spring Stashdash" challenge I'm leading on Ravelry ends on July 1.  I started with this: and everything is finished except maybe 2 more dishcloths and the pink sweater.  I've almost finished the front, though and might actually finish it today, thanks to a mysteriously early start today......... like 4:30 AM.  I'm feeling slightly less guilty about everything we had to put him through during the broken leg episode ............. So I have 13 days to finish 2 sleeves, the seams, and the neck.  I think it could happen.  It won't technically empty my basket as I'm positive I'll have pink yarn left, and I have almost 3 balls left over from Andy's sweater as he didn't seem to think the idea of a sweater and matching hat combo was particularly "manly" once one is over the age of 5, and he might have a point there.  I haven't exactly seen Antonio Banderas or Brad Pitt walking around in sweater and tam ensembles .  Yet. I...