Saturday, August 31, 2013

Hi me...

A pat on the back for forging ahead on your destash 2013


11 new projects assigned to stash yarn!
5 cast on
1 gift knit

Not so bad, ravelry stash is way smaller. Now you can see what yarn to put out for the townwide yard sale next Saturday. 

Finished object praise....

This is Kodachrome by Lindsay Ingram (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kodachrome)



Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Word up....

I was playing around with Wordle today and made a pretty uh, wordle of my favorite things....
here...


What fun...

Knitting update:

I am casting on every project I can to assign my stash to things.  That way I can decide what stash I can de-stash to others.  I have a lot of yarn that I bought before I knew about things like "sweater quantities" for my size (in all fairness to myself I have spanned three sizes due to surgeries etc).  So, that way when I buy yarn in the future it is not to just buy yarn as opposed to randomly  buying yarn and finding out i don't have enough to make anything good.  UGH.

I did however, join The Plucky Knitter subscription for 4 skeins of fingering yarn. I will be very interested to see what I get (oh and of course, I only ordered 4 skeins which guess what - MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH SWEATER QUANTITY).  BLAST.  She said try it out and see.  I will have to wait till open enrollment to change it.  Sad face.

I think I am going to order some pattern books.  To begin to feed my design side of my brain.  I have some shapes in mind and want to start thinking about sweater patterns.

Dé tha thu ah deanamh?
What are ya making?

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Take the negative with the positive

Looking at all my yarn I am trying to assign projects to all the yarn I can.

But I also have some old projects three of the which will require negative knitting. I discovered my Adrift cardigan has a missed increase one row back but also it has 90 stitches on one side and 94 on the other. So the question is...how much knitting back (a.k.a. Negative knitting) do I to do????    :-(

I went back two row already then put it on a time out. 

I brought it out this morning to access the situation and discovered the sides don't match.

So I ponder...

This is the bad knits time out spot....
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