Monday, 31 July 2017

July 2017

For July, my focus is hopefully changing a bit. I want to spend more time working out and less time knitting. That being said, I won't stop knitting entirely, but I think my project focus will change. I want to focus on shawls, socks, wrist warmers, hats, blankets etc instead of sweaters that might not fit as a result of the working out. Ergo my 2 sweaters are going into a temporary hibernation and will need some severe thought process before I pick them up again.

So that is where I am at, maybe as a result I will get some blankets and things finished, and see where that takes me. I would really like to get Banana Bunches completed (which I very much could if I just sat down and did it) and the hue shift I would also like to get done, even though it is a relaxing mindless knit that I can do when I am so tired I cannot function. I would also like to finish the Illuminated Lines blanket, so I think once the Surge shawl is complete this will become my Wednesday knit night knitting for the foreseeable future, which means that I could get 1 square a week done, this sounds like an excellent plan if I do say so myself.

FO's:
  1. Surge
    1. I made a few modifications to this, the panels that are in Yarn Ink Butterfly, are done in stockinette stitch instead of garter as I thought the speckles would be shown to best advantage with no texture, and I was right!
      • I also just realized that I have a shawl already in these basically exact same colours, talk about sticking to a colour palette....








Almost FO's:
  1. Cable Mesh Crewneck Sweater - Thank you Knit Picks
    1. Yarn is Star Fish Ridley Sock by SeaTurtle Fibre Arts in Twilight
      • Finally figured out the sleeves on this thing...and then took a break. Something went very awry, but I got a heck of a ways. 
      • This is sadly where I am at with this. I am thinking of frogging the whole thing, and starting again, or maybe frogging to the cuffs and then starting again. There are multiple reasons:
        1. I think too many things have gone wrong.....
        2. The sleeves are going to be way too long once blocked
        3. and I am trying to get down about 20 - 30 lbs and I do not want to end up with a gorgeous sweater that does not fit, at all, ever...and have wasted my time. (this goes for my other cast on sweater, and goes fro my currently waiting patiently to get cast on sweater...)

    WIP's:
    My life would be amazing if I could get one of these finished before I go away in June...maybe I can...maybe I cannot.
      1. Banana Bunches
        1. 9 more repeats and you will be out of my life!
      2. Hue Shift 5 colours
        1. I have started the 3rd quarter of this blanket.


      Languishing WIP's:
      1. Illuminated Lines Blanket: Thank you Knit Picks
      2. Circlet Cardigan: Thank you Knit Picks - so pretty! I cannot wait to see this finished.
        • Just realized that this is officially the 3 year sweater...it was cast on in January of 2014
      3. Feather and Fan Blanket - This really is if I am desperate for a change.
      4. Hue shift in 5 colours not 10
          1. CO is 18 stitch maker CO 17 with a CDD (I keep forgetting what my cast on is, so here we go, never to forget)
        1. Dragon Stole: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/dragon-stole 
        2. Tardis Blanket (the giant one)
          • Smaller needles?
          • Larger edging?
          • Follow the pattern more accurately, do not get impatient with the process, as it is a process!
        Books:
        1. The Crown
        2. Moll Flanders
        3. Worlds of Ink and Shadow
        4. DragonFly in Amber
        5. Gone With the Wind
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