I can’t help myself
November 12th, 2007But I'm thinking out several new projects.. despite having my needles pretty damn full at the moment.
My current contract project is considerably larger than the previous two (and more complicated) but I still have a little over a month until deadline. Its an ingenious design, but the way the pattern is written, requires too much thought in my opinion. Meaning its not an ideal tv watching/knitting project, which is about 90% of my knitting. And the spinning guild holiday project is half done, but I'm reconsidering what I'm making. Not that its not coming along nicely, but more that I'm so not enjoying the process. I don't know why either. Weird. And the peas and carrots socks are still on the needles. I fear these will not be done before the new year... but I'm ok with it.
When I get into a rut like this, I generally start looking for something new. I've been longing for a sweater project for quite a while, but have yet to find something that A) won't cost 150.00 in materials, B) simple yet elegant and C) something the whole knitting world is not also working on.
I've been wanting to do the Kauni cardigan. But everyone, and their knitting next door neighbor is doing it too. I've mentioned in the past how much I love Poetry In Stitches. But between trying to buy an out of print book, and a yarn kit... oy.. that breaks rules A and B. Vanilla Spice is still in my "want to knit" queue, but I also just saw this one earlier today, Everyday Tweed.
Never mind me and my indecisiveness.. I'm just thinking out loud.
Around a year ago on this day..
- Saturday, and more Mahj - 2005
November 12th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Damn you, now I’m in love with Everyday Tweed. Like I don’t have enough on my queue.
You enabler you;)
November 13th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I love that Kauni cardigan, it’s no wonder everyone is doing it. But I wouldn’t let that stop me. Maybe two others in Syracuse will be wearing it. It would be a hard project for me with handspun tho’. All that dyeing! WOW
November 13th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Oooh, oooh, oooh! Kauni, of course, and I do like that Everyday Tweed, but Vanilla Spice is DEFINITELY my style (how quickly I can forget about perfectly wonderful — free — patterns right at my fingertips).
November 14th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Well, I hardly think Kauni is “simple,” though it may be elegant! I love the Everyday Tweed sweater and now have queued it in Ravelry, for someday.
How about any of Bonne Marie Burns’s designs at chicknits.com? If you want simple, as in top-down, in-the-round, they might not work. But they are so pretty.
November 14th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
So whats the final decision
November 15th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I had t laugh about your “ideal tv watching/knitting project”. I don’t knit, building electronic projects is my crafting, but I can see it now if I did and tried to watch tv while knitting. I would probably come up with a three armed sweater when I was trying to make an afghan.
Best of luck on your projects.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Good luck with your decisions. You sound like you have a lot going on already. LOL!