Too Much . . .
Before I get started, just a shout out to all our men and women who serve in our armed forces all over the globe. Thank you :-)
Over on the Year of Stash Socks board on Ravelry, we've been having a "finish it up" challenge over this Memorial Day Weekend.
It's the last day to finish up what we can for this challenge, and boy, have I learned a lesson. I'm much better as a more serial knitter. I do not like having all these WIPs. It's hard to come back to something long after the fact and finish it. I'm going to be finishing or frogging a lot of stuff in the coming months. This goes along with some other work I'm doing with Julia Cameron's book, Finding Water. I have decided that it's not best for me to have more than 3 WIPs at any one time. That's how I used to operate, and I've gotten carried away.
For the challenge, I had six things I put in my list because I "didn't know what I'd feel like working on." Hmmmmm, there's a clue right there . . .
1) My Augusta Cardigan. I took it with me yesterday to a "crafternoon" with a bunch of my friends, most of whom are very good knitters. The general consensus is that I have to either detach and frog the sleeves, or detach and narrow the back at the shoulders. I'm smaller since I started this sweater - this is what comes of not finishing stuff - and now it's actually too big for me. I made it as a jacket rather than a close-to-the-body-cardigan, but still, it's too big, and even though I planned to roll the cuffs, the sleeves are really too long . . . Of course my finish work is such that I can't even find the yarn to cut to detach anything :-( I don't know what I'm going to do here . . . there's a huge piece of me that feels like I should just bag this as a hard lesson learned.
2) The Moroccan Backpack. Oh. All things Moroccan fascinate me, and when this pattern came up in an Interweave publication, I jumped on it. I was relentless in the knitting of it. I did nothing else for the couple of weeks it took for me to finish it. Unfortunately, it didn't felt like the photo, and I ended up with more a messenger bag than a back pack. And, also unfortunately, it biased when it felted. I've held it in reserve for more than year, thinking that I was going to make an actual messenger bag out of it. The choice is to finish it or toss it as a lesson learned. I'm making my decision today . . . :-( Who am I kidding? This one's going out . . .
3) Vodka Lemonade. My current sweater in progress. It will not be finished this weekend, although I did work on a sleeve yesterday. It will be finished, however, and soon.
4) A felted lunchbox. First I couldn't find the pattern, but I found it, and once again, I've let this sit so long that I'm going to have to do some frogging before I can actually finish it. It's on the docket for some work today. I would really like to finish it.
5) Mulled Wine Socks. No progress here - these have been lingering since October. They will be finished.
6) Some gift knitting that is stranded colorwork . . . too much twisting and then having to untwist the yarns. If these weren't a special gift, there's no way I would continue . . .
7) Finish spinning some wool that I started two years ago. Well, YAY ME! I managed to do this yesterday! :-)
8) The Sofa of Doom. You know, this has been on my list of goals again since January. I made serious progress here on Friday night and have high hopes for today :-)
I have a sort of list of the unfinished objects (UFOs) or, if you prefer, works in progress (WIPs) over on the sidebar. I have just updated it. ====:-O I'm going to have to work these down. I must, or lose my sanity, I think. As mentioned previously here on this blog, I am overwhelmed in too many areas. It's time to get some things accomplished. and off my plate so that I feel like I have a little more control over things.
In other news of the day, a second loom may be on its way to me! A dear friend found a loom in the effects of someone in his family, and he said, "A, do you know anyone who weaves?" :-D Um . . . me. He's shipping it here. I have no idea what kind it is, or even if it's all together, but I know plenty of people who can help me when it arrives.
Over on the Year of Stash Socks board on Ravelry, we've been having a "finish it up" challenge over this Memorial Day Weekend.
It's the last day to finish up what we can for this challenge, and boy, have I learned a lesson. I'm much better as a more serial knitter. I do not like having all these WIPs. It's hard to come back to something long after the fact and finish it. I'm going to be finishing or frogging a lot of stuff in the coming months. This goes along with some other work I'm doing with Julia Cameron's book, Finding Water. I have decided that it's not best for me to have more than 3 WIPs at any one time. That's how I used to operate, and I've gotten carried away.
For the challenge, I had six things I put in my list because I "didn't know what I'd feel like working on." Hmmmmm, there's a clue right there . . .
1) My Augusta Cardigan. I took it with me yesterday to a "crafternoon" with a bunch of my friends, most of whom are very good knitters. The general consensus is that I have to either detach and frog the sleeves, or detach and narrow the back at the shoulders. I'm smaller since I started this sweater - this is what comes of not finishing stuff - and now it's actually too big for me. I made it as a jacket rather than a close-to-the-body-cardigan, but still, it's too big, and even though I planned to roll the cuffs, the sleeves are really too long . . . Of course my finish work is such that I can't even find the yarn to cut to detach anything :-( I don't know what I'm going to do here . . . there's a huge piece of me that feels like I should just bag this as a hard lesson learned.
2) The Moroccan Backpack. Oh. All things Moroccan fascinate me, and when this pattern came up in an Interweave publication, I jumped on it. I was relentless in the knitting of it. I did nothing else for the couple of weeks it took for me to finish it. Unfortunately, it didn't felt like the photo, and I ended up with more a messenger bag than a back pack. And, also unfortunately, it biased when it felted. I've held it in reserve for more than year, thinking that I was going to make an actual messenger bag out of it. The choice is to finish it or toss it as a lesson learned. I'm making my decision today . . . :-( Who am I kidding? This one's going out . . .
3) Vodka Lemonade. My current sweater in progress. It will not be finished this weekend, although I did work on a sleeve yesterday. It will be finished, however, and soon.
4) A felted lunchbox. First I couldn't find the pattern, but I found it, and once again, I've let this sit so long that I'm going to have to do some frogging before I can actually finish it. It's on the docket for some work today. I would really like to finish it.
5) Mulled Wine Socks. No progress here - these have been lingering since October. They will be finished.
6) Some gift knitting that is stranded colorwork . . . too much twisting and then having to untwist the yarns. If these weren't a special gift, there's no way I would continue . . .
7) Finish spinning some wool that I started two years ago. Well, YAY ME! I managed to do this yesterday! :-)
8) The Sofa of Doom. You know, this has been on my list of goals again since January. I made serious progress here on Friday night and have high hopes for today :-)
I have a sort of list of the unfinished objects (UFOs) or, if you prefer, works in progress (WIPs) over on the sidebar. I have just updated it. ====:-O I'm going to have to work these down. I must, or lose my sanity, I think. As mentioned previously here on this blog, I am overwhelmed in too many areas. It's time to get some things accomplished. and off my plate so that I feel like I have a little more control over things.
In other news of the day, a second loom may be on its way to me! A dear friend found a loom in the effects of someone in his family, and he said, "A, do you know anyone who weaves?" :-D Um . . . me. He's shipping it here. I have no idea what kind it is, or even if it's all together, but I know plenty of people who can help me when it arrives.
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