Wow 2011. So I can’t believe it has been July since I posted. We found out I was pregnant again so suddenly what little free time I have was taken up with sleep and trying unsuccessfully to keep up my house and not stint Elke on the attention she needs. This past fall I ended up spending about two months going back and forth between St. Louis and where I live due to some medical issues my mom was having. That was decidedly unpleasant and even though I brought knitting I frogged almost everything I started between the summer and December. However I did start and complete a project in a timely fashion even with all the holiday crazy! I’ll have pics later on this week after I block the sucker. Currently I’m working on finishing up the ringwood gloves, I decided to use up an almost full skein of DIC Classy in Gothic Rose that I had leftover from my Clap and the socks I made a while back. It’s a nice pattern although you do have to watch how tight the added on stitches for the fingers end up. I had to frog back a few on the first one I started. I should be done in a day or so depending on how much knitting I get done.
I also have a cardigan I started but I’m not sure about it. I like the pattern but I’m really kind of meh on the yarn. But it is a good way of using up that yarn and getting it out of my stash.
For Christmas the only knitting related gifts I got were two Lexie Barnes bags. One is the coco for needle storage which is incredibly awesome I managed to get *all* 3 of my interchangeable sets, fixed circs, and crochet hooks in there. I also snagged a McCoy on Ebay but since I bought that for travel I’m not sure it counts as knitting related.
I’m still trying to decide on my next project. I have an idea but we’ll see how I feel when I finish the gloves. I’m learning towards only having two projects going at a time since I seem to get more done that way.
So since this is the obligatory new years post I want to look ahead a bit. I’m not going to do anything silly like swear not to buy yarn all year or anything but there are a few things I would like to do, so here is my list
- Have two projects going
- Get over my fear of charts since there have been quite a few patterns I have wanted to make but dismissed over the chart issue
- Organize a local yarn/craft flea market
- Somehow keep knitting with two rugrats under 2
- knit a bit every day even if it’s only a row
- Take up the sewing again once it makes sense for me to make clothes
- Finish up the little projects around the house I keep putting off
- Exercise more
- Blog more since I find the me time relaxing and I discovered the wordpress app for my phone isn’t that bad to use:)
So hopefully two FO posts later this week! I also might have some yarn pron since I should be getting up to STL later on this week and I am planning a trip to the loopy ewe.