These past few weeks have been a struggle for me. My list of "to do" projects seems to grow exponentially on a dialy basis. And the urge to start new projects grows as well. I'm trying to be good and finish up a project before I add another one. I'm almost done with my Kelp Forest scarf I started this month. I want to get it finished on or before Friday. Which I just realized tomorrow is Friday - I better knit up a storm this evening after work.
Probably the best way to go about knitting up a project would be to focus on that project and only do one at a time. I, however, cannot do that. I always have multiple projects going on at the same time. It allows me to jump around and gives me a variety of knitting to work on. Right now I have one lace scarf project [La Dentelle Belle], one plain knit/purl project [Kelp Forest], one new technique project [Entrelac scarf], and one scarf project that requires a lot of attention and counting [Midwest Moonlight Scarf].
My pending list however, is about 100 times longer that this short list, and of course I want to knit everything now! But since I can't do that (not enough knitting needles to go around), I'm trying to become (or make myself) more organized. Ravelry is such an awesome tool for that purpose! I absolutely love Ravelry! I'm sure I spend way too much time on it. But I don't mind! Currently I am in the process of arranging my project queue. My ultimate goal is to order the projects in the order I intend to work on them, assign a yarn and color to them from the yarn I have stashed, and then as I bind off a project I'll cast on another one! Hooray! I have my goal, now all I have to do is work towards reaching it. That is something I'll take on this weekend after I finish Kelp Forest.
Until next time
~Happy Knitting~
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
The beauty of finished projects!
I must say it feels great to finish projects that I started. I am now a huge fan of the fingerless gloves. They are fun and fast to knit. These are the perfect little side projects to work on while working bigger more complex projects. With that said, I finished the camo fingerless gloves for my hubby and the black fingerless gloves for myself to use at work.
I've also made decent progress on my La Dentelle Belle scarf project. As I am typing this I look over and notice that my husband's cat has decided to lay on my scarf! Oh well. That is about all I have to report on project wise.
In other knitting news, this past week I tried two new things at the same time. Knitting with two colors and knitting on circular needles. Obviously I need to slow down and tackle one thing at a time because that was the most frustrating thing I ever tried. I went to bed Friday night very frustrated and disappointed. I think I am going to take a break from trying to do new things with my knitting and stick with the lace and cable patterns for now.
I plan on taking a sock knitting class in April at one of the local yarn shops. I'm excited about it. I'll also be learning how to knit on double pointed needles at that time. I'm one of those people that learns better when I have someone to explain things to me and walk me through the technique.
Until next time
~~Happy Knitting~~
I've also made decent progress on my La Dentelle Belle scarf project. As I am typing this I look over and notice that my husband's cat has decided to lay on my scarf! Oh well. That is about all I have to report on project wise.
In other knitting news, this past week I tried two new things at the same time. Knitting with two colors and knitting on circular needles. Obviously I need to slow down and tackle one thing at a time because that was the most frustrating thing I ever tried. I went to bed Friday night very frustrated and disappointed. I think I am going to take a break from trying to do new things with my knitting and stick with the lace and cable patterns for now.
I plan on taking a sock knitting class in April at one of the local yarn shops. I'm excited about it. I'll also be learning how to knit on double pointed needles at that time. I'm one of those people that learns better when I have someone to explain things to me and walk me through the technique.
Until next time
~~Happy Knitting~~
Sunday, February 10, 2008
This weeks finished projects
This past week was a long one for me. I spent most of the week in a moderate amount of pain due to some dental work that was done the previous Friday. Lucky for me knitting can be therapeutic. My knitting really helped me keep my mind off the pain in the evenings. Thankfully I am well on the mend and am in no pain this weekend. Now, to the projects! I completed my Irish Hiking Scarf! I'm so proud of this scarf, I wore it the last two days to work to show it off! It turned out so good! I'm really pleased with it. Here's a pic:
I also finished my fingerless gloves project. I finished the right glove yesterday morning. They turned out so good. Since I still have a fair amount of the yarn left over I'm thinking about either making a headband to go with the gloves or a scarf. Now that I think about it. I'll probably use the left overs to make a headband and buy another skein to make a matching cabled scarf. I wonder if that would be too much matching at once? Oh well, I don't care. I absolutely love the coloring of this yarn. And here's the pic of the gloves:
A really exciting thing happened to me this week too! After about a week of waiting I got my ravelry invite!!!! I was super excited about that. I have to admit I spent the better part or work on Thursday and Friday thinking about all the stuff I wanted to enter into my notebook. I also spent Friday during my breaks setting up my flickr account so I could upload my pictures to it. Despite the pain I went through this week it turned out to be a pretty good week for me knitting wise.
In other news, I briefly mentioned sometime ago about my ongoing charity project. I've been crocheting preemie baby caps to donate to one of my local hospitals. I am proud to announce that upon completion of two more hats, that are currently in progress, I'll have my first batch of hats ready to donate. The group picture is a little blurry so I'm also including two pictures of just a few of the hats also.
I plan on dropping off the hats sometime during this coming week. If I can't find time after work, then I'll drop them off on Saturday. That about does it for this post. I need to get back to searching for the battery charger for my camera. I tried to put it in a place where it would be easy for me to find, and apparently I picked a bad place. Oh well, next time I'm just going to stick it in my crafty box with my label maker!
Until next time!
~Happy Knitting~
I also finished my fingerless gloves project. I finished the right glove yesterday morning. They turned out so good. Since I still have a fair amount of the yarn left over I'm thinking about either making a headband to go with the gloves or a scarf. Now that I think about it. I'll probably use the left overs to make a headband and buy another skein to make a matching cabled scarf. I wonder if that would be too much matching at once? Oh well, I don't care. I absolutely love the coloring of this yarn. And here's the pic of the gloves:
A really exciting thing happened to me this week too! After about a week of waiting I got my ravelry invite!!!! I was super excited about that. I have to admit I spent the better part or work on Thursday and Friday thinking about all the stuff I wanted to enter into my notebook. I also spent Friday during my breaks setting up my flickr account so I could upload my pictures to it. Despite the pain I went through this week it turned out to be a pretty good week for me knitting wise.
In other news, I briefly mentioned sometime ago about my ongoing charity project. I've been crocheting preemie baby caps to donate to one of my local hospitals. I am proud to announce that upon completion of two more hats, that are currently in progress, I'll have my first batch of hats ready to donate. The group picture is a little blurry so I'm also including two pictures of just a few of the hats also.
I plan on dropping off the hats sometime during this coming week. If I can't find time after work, then I'll drop them off on Saturday. That about does it for this post. I need to get back to searching for the battery charger for my camera. I tried to put it in a place where it would be easy for me to find, and apparently I picked a bad place. Oh well, next time I'm just going to stick it in my crafty box with my label maker!
Until next time!
~Happy Knitting~
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Fingerless Glove Success!
Well, I decided to pick up another minor side project. I found a great fingerless glove pattern that has a simple cable in the middle of it. I started this yesterday. The idea is that the fingerless gloves will keep my wrists warm while knitting. So like I said I started this yesterday (Monday). I got off to a good start, and I figured I could probably get the left glove finished today. This is where I left off last night.
Today I finished the left glove. I'm really excited about it. It fits....well...like a glove! Not too tight and not too loose. I'll get started on the right glove tomorrow after work. Then I'll finish my Irish Hiking Scarf this weekend. Here's a picture when I started sewing up the sides. (Thankfully this cute pattern only required size 5 straight needles and not double pointed needles. I'm still working on the double pointed needles. I need to pick up a smaller pair, I only have size 10.5.)
And here's a couple pictures of the completed glove.
Until next time!
~~Happy Knitting ~~
Today I finished the left glove. I'm really excited about it. It fits....well...like a glove! Not too tight and not too loose. I'll get started on the right glove tomorrow after work. Then I'll finish my Irish Hiking Scarf this weekend. Here's a picture when I started sewing up the sides. (Thankfully this cute pattern only required size 5 straight needles and not double pointed needles. I'm still working on the double pointed needles. I need to pick up a smaller pair, I only have size 10.5.)
And here's a couple pictures of the completed glove.
Until next time!
~~Happy Knitting ~~
Monday, February 4, 2008
A Knitter's Ideal Weekend
I believe the ideal weekend for an avid knitter should always start out with a Saturday morning trip to the yarn shop. This is how my weekend started off. Actually it started with a two hour drive on Friday evening to my parents house. (Hubby and I try to make monthly visits to our family, since we moved to another city for work.) Saturday morning my mom and I ventured out for some yarn shopping. I have several projects lined up that I needed supplies for. Now some people might say wait and buy the yarn when you are ready to actually start each project. I say...what's the fun in that?! Besides, my hubby told me to "buy lots of yarn" on my way out. (Yes, I do have a witness that heard this and would back me up if needed, haha.) I got plenty of yarn to keep my hands occupied for the next couple of months.....maybe....hopefully. I also picked up some smaller needles for my lacy scarf patterns I intend on tackling next.
After yarn shopping we headed back to my moms house where I sorted through my yarn and worked on matching my yarns to patterns. It took much self-restraint to not start another project while doing this. I plan on waiting until I get the Irish Hiking Scarf finished before I start my next project. I did however line up my next scarf project and matched a yarn to it. So that's all ready to go once I finish.
The rest of my weekend revolved around knitting on the Irish Hiking Scarf and looking through mom's knitting books and magazines, selecting which patterns I needed to have a copy of, and making those copies. I now have more projects to think about and line up, I'm so excited. I want to hurry up and finish my hiking scarf so I can officially move on to the next project. Lucky me I am almost done with the hiking scarf. I anticipate finishing it by the weekend. I could finish before the weekend if I had more time to spend on knitting. But, well see.
~~Until next time, Happy Knitting~~
After yarn shopping we headed back to my moms house where I sorted through my yarn and worked on matching my yarns to patterns. It took much self-restraint to not start another project while doing this. I plan on waiting until I get the Irish Hiking Scarf finished before I start my next project. I did however line up my next scarf project and matched a yarn to it. So that's all ready to go once I finish.
The rest of my weekend revolved around knitting on the Irish Hiking Scarf and looking through mom's knitting books and magazines, selecting which patterns I needed to have a copy of, and making those copies. I now have more projects to think about and line up, I'm so excited. I want to hurry up and finish my hiking scarf so I can officially move on to the next project. Lucky me I am almost done with the hiking scarf. I anticipate finishing it by the weekend. I could finish before the weekend if I had more time to spend on knitting. But, well see.
~~Until next time, Happy Knitting~~
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