a knitter's spring cleaning...

First up, is this cowl that has spent much too long in an unfinished state.  It's actually not really finished now, but it's done.  By that, I mean...I decided it was time to end this project.  First of all, it is very, very wide....and it's knit in the round, which mean that you have a double layer of wooliness going around your neck.  To make it a reasonable width, I have to fold it in half.  So...that's like having 4 layers of wooly wool going around your neck once.  Had I continued to the stated length in the pattern, not only would I have been knitting sometime into the next millennium, but this lovely monster could easily have wrapped my neck at least 3 times...doubled over, that would have been an even dozen layers thick?!?  Unreasonable.  It's done.

Rill is also finished.  It had been hanging out almost as long as the cowl in a partial state of un-doneness.  Now it's done.  Thank you German short-rows.  I love you.

One short sock is finished. I apparently put it in a good safe place, because I couldn't find it for a photo op.

A couple more hexagons are off the needle.  I've 'stored' the finished ones in a basket on a really high shelf.  I toss finished ones up into it (my version of knitting basketball) and I'm such a lazy-butt it's been probably close to a year since I've counted how many I've done.  I still have worsted weight yarn left, so I guess I'm not done yet.  And here's a mystery for you..... how have I accumulate so many odd skeins of WORSTED weight yarn----and in colours, yet!!----when I really only knit with grey fingering or lace weight yarn? 

Speaking of which...

I needed a mindless project, and I really hadn't started anything in quite a while (which may account for my recent knitting malaise), so I started this Polka Dot scarf by Churchmouse Yarns.

I'm a sucker for polka dots...of any kind.  These are big holes, which will need a nice blocking before they show up well.  This is EASY...mindless...and lovely.  I hesitated actually buying this pattern...how hard is it to make holes in knitted fabric?  But like all Churchmouse patterns, the attentions are in the details, and the details in this one  will make it a very classy, very well finished scarf.  The yarn was in the stash.

And it's grey. 

And it's lace weight. 

What's not to love?
 

Comments

[Jane]

You make me smile. Why is it someone else's UFO's are more interesting than my own? It looks to me like you are making good progress with your stash and UFO's. I love the Rill and the cowl and the gray lace. I have five unfinished projects on the needles and all I want to do is cast on something else.

[Diane]

You have a good sense of humour.
I too enjoy the patterns from Churchmouse Yarns, not that I've been knitting lately, but still.

[Cindy]

I’ve started the same polka dot scarf in the same colour! Not quite as far as yours though...my other mindless, emergency knitting is an Albers Shawl - about 7 balls of laceweight when it’s done. They will both take awhile as they’re not my primary projects and well, laceweight! As always, I enjoy Freddy’s adventures and your writing.

[steph@woolythyme]

Thanks, Cindy.  We might have boost each other up with all this laceweight knitting going on.  (I did the Albers cowl a couple years ago…one of my favorites, but the cowl was NOT in laceweight!!!!!)

[Caffeine Girl]

What pattern is the cowl? It is gorgeous! But I know what you mean about too many layers. It's not like either one of us lives in Alaska. I've been saving yarn to make a leftovers cowl by Wendy Johnson, but I suspect I'll enjoy the knitting more than the wearing.

[Andi]

It would seem I need to take a page from your book and get to Spring cleaning many of my projects.
Every single project you shared here is beautiful. Then again, when aren't your projects?

[karen]

I've eyed that pattern you are doing in lace, so so pretty! and in gray!! yay! Love that multicolored cowl but I bet that would be ultra toasty to wear :)