Finished the baby gift for my friend. I’m almost 100% sure she doesn’t check my craft blog. If I want to show her what I’ve been working on, she usually checks Flickr. So for now, I’m keeping the pictures off of that site but I thought it would be safe to post up here.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Rethinking patterns for old yarn…
So, I have to admit, I have a stashing problem. I find a pattern, fall in love, and buy the yarn for a project or three. I’ve been knitting so slow that by the time I get through one or two, I’ve bought yarn for at least 5 more. It doesn’t help that there are beautiful new patterns I want to make coming out so fast I can not keep up. Then add the random sock yarn to it and my poor tote has long since been overflowing. I’m currently trying to get back into my tote and more importantly, use up some of the sweater quantities of older yarn I have sitting around.
Finis
The Soap Bubble Wrap is complete, whoo!
So. Close.
All the ends for the body are woven in. The neck border has been knit and seamed to the body. I’m about 15″ into the belt. Just that and the crocheted loops. Then I am done and I can move on.
I have serious finishitis on this project.
Teaser…
Two in one night, I know…
But I had promised a post about my class and this one has a couple of pictures. None from said class, but I do have them of my yarn that was the result.

I used black (which turned out more of a navy color), mouse grey, and at the end splashed on some teal. It’s a very manly colorway and strikingly similar to my first installment of Plucky Classics which was shipped to me about that same time.
More teal, less black, and more mouse grey and they could have been twins. Same concept, different results. I got a serious laugh about it when I saw the spoiler pictures on Ravelry.
Since I have so much yardage of my yarn, I’m planning to finally make Mr. Knitpicky some socks. Size 13 socks in fingering weight won’t be exciting or easy, but I’m pleased to know that I dyed the yarn that will be his colorway and that I’ll have enough to make them.
I can’t wait to see how this knits up.
Arrrrgh!
There is nothing worse then realizing you will run out of yarn and are so close you can see the end of the project. I finally found the oomph to finish my Soap Bubble wrap and too late, I realized that I am going to be about a half skein short. Which means I won’t be able to do the last few rows of the back piece, no yarn to seam with, and I still need to knit the belt. Before I started, I realized I didn’t have enough from when I purchased the allhempLUX on a whim. So I contacted the lovely ladies at Kpixie and they still had my dyelot. I knew I needed two more skeins and ordered three to be safe.
Should have made it four. *Groan*
I’m hoping lightning will strike twice and they still have one skein of my dyelot floating around in their shop; I’m anxiously awaiting an email. I have a sneaking suspician mine may be one of a discounted bundle of 4, which means I’ll have to overbuy, but at this point, it beats not being able to finish after I had to force myself to get moving again. (If I do overbuy, hemp makes great market bags and 3.5 skeins should be plenty to make one.) I even checked Ravelry for anyone destashing and couldn’t find any. I thought about making a post in ISO/Destashing, but that board is anything but friendly and I’d have to be seriously desperate to do it. I’m not quite there yet, so for now, I’m going to wait for my email and hope they can help me out. I just started my last yarn cake and it will take me a couple of days to work through. By then, I should have my yarn ordered and just have to wait for it to get here. I’m kinda bummed I’ll have to take another break on this knit though, that’s why it took so long in the first place. Once I lose my momentum, it’s really hard to get going again. I have plenty else to work on, I just don’t want to go through the drudgery of getting going, especially so late in a knit.
One knit at a time, that’s the way for me to go. I have to admit that I do not have a problem starting project after project. Maybe it’s that I do not have enough needles to afford the ‘luxury.’ Or maybe it’s because I know that I won’t finish anything if I allowed myself to flit from one to another to another. I love the process of knitting, but I love FOs as much or more. I just want this top finished so I can knock it off the list and start work on another. I have some socks hanging out as well, but I don’t see those as everyday projects. I have to be in the right mood for them and it’s not very often. Once I finish this wrap and a baby sweater for a friend, I’ll finish those and decide what to do next.
Good thing I don’t lack in projects in my queue.
Yardage post for May 2009
Super quick one here. Finally have all my yardage tallies from last month. I didn’t do too badly despite getting sidetracked by sewing projects and some lack of enthusiasm for my projects.
January: 937 yds
March: 1466 yds
April: 1093 yds
Catching up after vacation…part 1
OK. We’ve been back in town since late Saturday evening and I’m finally getting organized enough to update this blog and show off all the things I did while home. I have a couple of small knitting FOs as well as some sewing ones. Today, I’ll post up the knitted ones and go from there.
Needles: US 3 / 3.25 mm
Yarn: The YoYo Sport String (Braaains colorway)
I really wish I could say that I got more done then this knitwise, but I didn’t. I am almost done with my Soap Bubble Wrap and hope to be calling it an FO in the coming week. After taking a couple of days off to travel up to Wisconsin, I lost steam on it and couldn’t get it to hold my interest. So I worked on socks instead, while making myself do 2-6 rows on the back piece of the Wrap every day. At least I kept working on it despite a loss of interest.