Finally Started

Over the weekend I managed to figure out the colour combination of yarns (three!) that would give me gauge. See that? An honest to goodness swatch. I even cast on the first sleeve, but didn't make much progress beyond the first 4 rows.

I'm here!

Hi ladies, I am still here and have started my sweater...sorry for the lack of blogging. Chris' brother is getting married tomorrow and as chris remarked he has probably done more for this wedding than he did for his own! It has been a bit crazy...next week (my mom's 60th birthday) should be a bit calmer after our house guest's leave so i promise a progress report!

Halfway to Cast On

I didn't get your comment in time, Holly, to select my yarn first. Now I finally have a pattern selected that I am practically drooling over but still searching for yarn, which is a combination of two. The pattern I have in mind is called Cabled Duffle Coat from Knitter's Fall 2006. The link takes you to a picture and what it would cost for a kit. Outrageous!

Look at how fast I can knit!

I cast on yesterday and look how far I am today! MWOOHAHAHAAAAA JUST KIDDING!!!

This is my sweater that I started months ago. It's my first Central Park Hoodie in a wierd 'raw hamburger' sort of colorway (by the way, thanks for all the encouragement about that darn pink color). I'm almost done with the sleeves and have to start looking for a place the block the huge thing . . . any ideas? I still have the whole edge thingy to knit - oh and the hood. Honestly, I don't know how you people can knit these things in a month.

I know. . . I'm cheating. I also started (about a million months ago, too) a sweater for my new niece that should be arriving any day now.

b14-27 Jacket by DROPS design

Barely Started

In the evening, the light in my room is horrible. Energy saving bulbs are all well and good, but taking photos without flash shows you just about how dark I find the place.

This yarn is what most of us would think of as fishermans. A nice weight natural colored yarn that is meant to show of stitches and pattern while happily being obscured in the background.

I have cast on not quite 200 stitches on my 3.00 mm needles and am cussing my way through twisted rib while listening to Bellweather by Connie Willis in audio. I didn't want anything stressful, ugly or mean. No thrillers, mysteries or blood. Back to scifi with ideas.

One month? I must be nuts!

Already Behind

Would all believe that I still haven't picked out my pattern? Or the stash yarn that I plan to use? I have been flipping through about a dozen knitting books and hope to have something selected and hopefully even casted on today.

I'm looking forward to seeing your yarn selection, Michelle.

A Day Late and Dollar Short

Well, I'd say I meant to cast on for my sweater project last night, but was unable to on account of my husband severely cutting his ring finger and needing to be taken to the emergency room. But that'd be a lie. Not that Hubby didn't need to go to the emergency room (he did), but rather that I had no intention of casting on last night.

The trouble is that it turns out I'm - basically - a fickle beotch when it comes to knitting. I think a fair amount of fickleness (fickleosity?) is sort of a natural side-effect of evolving into a proper Knitter, along with UFOs, WIPs and a stash. But really, this is getting out of hand.

I started out just wanting to knit a(nother) sweater, because I was high on the exhiliration of a completed cardigan for myself (Laura Chau's Amelia). I really had no idea which pattern I would choose, I just knew I wanted it to be knit from the stash.

Then I thought "Wouldn't it be nice to knit a sweater for the kids?". I have 2 children, a 5 year-old daughter and a 2-year old son, and I haven't really knit anything significant for them in a while. Great idea! But drat, I don't really have the right yarn for those kinds of projects in the stash, and I couldn't guarantee my credit card (or my marriage for that matter!) would survive a perusal of KnitPicks intact. Besides, in addition to being fickle, it turns out I'm also quite selfish, heh. Screw the kids, I wanted to knit something for myself!

So scratch that. Maybe I could get the jump on Christmas knitting? I've been meaning to knit my Dad a sweater for ages.... But the thought of knitting a sweater for a size 42-inch chest within a month left me staring off into space, making incoherent noises.

Now I'm smitten with Laura Chau's newly released Honeybee Cardigan, but don't have the yarn for it, natch. And then it hit me: The Garter Yoke Cardigan. I've had some lovely Shelridge Farms worsted in the stash for a year that I think would be awesome for this project.

Oh yes, this is the one. Or, you know, not. :)