As I hadn’t too much to report on the knitting front I was going to write a how-to post but I haven’t managed to do that yet, so here it a knitting update post.
It is not easy to talk about my knitting/crochet when I have one knitting project and the rest are scrappy crochet projects that are going to take many, many months to complete. If I had a video podcast would I be holding up each project with a progress keeper to show that I had actually worked on something?
And I’m not being honest on the one knitting project because I also have the Latvian mittens which are my concentrate knitting. My plan was to finish these by the end of January and then when I could see that wasn’t going to happen, to get both mittens complete except for thumbs by then. One mitten is completely finished including ends sewn in, the second one still needs the thumb, which won’t take long but is extremely fiddly.
The lace cardigan is coming along nicely; the sleeves just need cuffs but I am still working away on the body. As the yarn is in 50 gram balls it is a lovely incentive to see them diminish in size so quickly. This is now all easy knitting (apart from the picking up of stitches for the band) and has me thinking about my oldest yarn and what should I make with it. There is a reason this yarn has been in my stash for a long time which I will explain when I actually use it. In the meantime I am thinking of projects but will not swatch until I am closer to needing a new project.
Talking about new projects, I did start a new one as mentioned in my last post. While I was thinking about my oldest yarn, I was also thinking about my second oldest which was a single skein of gradient yarn. This was yarn I was going to use for the mystery shawl but didn’t like that it was crinkly and didn’t look good in garter stitch. I skeined and soaked it to get out some of the crinkles and I’m so glad I did because I could see the colours so much better in the skein and was excited to make something with it. While thinking what to make I had an aha moment and thought that would be the yarn to use for the crochet project. So I have a take along project and I am using my second oldest yarn.
