As God is my witness...
I swear I will reduce the mountain of stash in my yarn closet!!! Compared to some, I hardly have any stash at all but what I do have keeps me distracted. So here's the plan, 1) I reduce/sell off a large portion of my stash, 2) finish the WIPs, 3) knit the remainder, and 4) if accomplish 1 - 3 I'll buy one expensive kit a year of something I really want to make. This years it's the Earthstripe Wrap by Kaffee Fassett . Next year, who knows, maybe I'll breakdown and buy yarn for Starmore's Marina sweater. Oooooh, we like we like....
Three Socks in One
The sock knitting craze has sucked me in like so many other knitters and I just had to try my hand at it. I knit one pair, toe-up, no problem. It was a little boring but I still ended up with two socks that fit.
For the next pair I tried a
toe-up Jaywalker in Colinette Jitterbug. I knit it much as before but I didn't like the way the picked up stitches on the heel flap looked so I frogged the sock back to before the heel gusset and tried a different style of heel--an afterthought heel. I loved the look, it had a very professional finish but there was no way was it going to fit on my foot, or anyone else's for that matter. There just weren't enough stitches to go over my heel. So I frogged it AGAIN back to before the heel gusset and reknit it with the original heel. All in all I have knit this pair of socks three times. Of course I never learn, I'm going to try
another pair of socks after this.
Curses Frogged Again!!!
I've actually finished knitting all the pieces for my modified Fulmar and guess what!?!?! It's way too big, I mean by about 10 inches in the width. (It's also not really long enough, but I could always live with that.) So Fulmar sat in the WIP basket for about a year (maybe two) while I was trying to decided what to do about this. I could:
1) just sew it together and give it to someone it fit
2) cut it down to size
3) frog it back to the point where I could reknit it.
I chose 3 in the end. It meant frogging the two front pieces, frogging the back down to the arm bind off, and eventually frogging the sleeves back to the beginning of the arm shaping. (Oh yeah, and the arms are way too long. I must have been knitting this for an ape...) I'll reknit the front as one piece and eliminate all of the filler stitch on the side. You'll see. I post pictures.
