End of May roundup

I was just commenting on a friend's blog and realized how many WIPs I have. Not that this is anything new, but it's something that always annoys me, and I continue to do it!

1st - Hey, Teach! I knit this SO fast and have not touched it since April 25th. No reason for that, just sheer laziness about not wanting to do shaping. And the shaping isn't even that hard!! I have the sleeves done to the caps, the fronts do to the sleeve shaping, and the back is completely done. It would take a long movie to finish the knitting. Then it needs to be seamed and blocked before the button band is added.

2nd - Dandy Neckerchief This honestly could be anywhere between 70-995 complete. I can pick how large I want it to be and since I haven't decided yet, I haven't worked on it! Stupid. This is another thing I could easily finish in a night if I just made my mind up about the size. I'll have enough of the yarn left for matching mittens and probably a hat.

3rd - Pole I only have the sleeves left. Those haven't been started yet because I want to add some short rows to the caps so the fit is more appealing. This is a few hours work of work, but it's still sitting there, waiting to be finished. The body has been done since May 15th. I really would like to finish this before June 1, but I don't know if that will happen given my work schedule and some work I need to get done for a class.

4th - Eskimo This poor thing hasn't been touched since fall! I flew through the back and the first half of the front panels, but then I left for Christmas break and didn't want to take it with. After Christmas, there were just too many new things to knit! Part of my slowness is also due to the fact that I've almost had to redesign the entire sweater since I'm using such an odd yarn.

5th - A hooded scarf This is for my friend's mom. Unfortunately, there aren't any great patterns that I've found for this item. I'm sort of making it up as I go using ideas from two different patterns. We'll see how that goes.

Written out it seems like a manageable amount of work, but also a lot of work at the same time! I also have to make the Hexacomb cardigan to wear to a wedding on June 10th. I might not be able to accomplish that, but I'm going to try. Which means I really should go dig for my contrast yarn... I thought it was in the in-apartment stash, but I can't find it anywhere.

I have finished a few things lately:

My 7th hat for 11 hats in 2011 -  Lotus hat

This was NOT a fun knit, but that's down to the yarn I used and my inability to count. 

My 8th hat for 11 hats in 2011 - Appalachia 
It was a really fun knit and the decreases on the crown are really cleverly done.

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I'm supposed to be working on a paper that's due tomorrow at 2pm. I'm not getting much done. I also have 4 other papers to finish by Friday at 3. Yippee. I could have had these done or at least mostly done by now, but what fun would that be.

I haven't been knitting much except dishcloths. They're a good mindless knit during my down time. I did work on my CPH left front on Sunday for a bit. It's up to the arm hole decreases now. I'm hoping that I can spend some time on it this weekend and get that side of the front totally done. It goes really fast when I work on it... Amazing how that happens. I'm hoping to get the entire sweater done before Maymester is over. I think I should have a decent amount of time after class every day to get some nice, real knitting done. I'd like to get the Eskimo done in that time as well. It would be nice to have both of those off of my WIP list.

I'm trying to find a nice pattern for a grocery bag for my mom. She mentioned a while ago that she wanted one, and I thought it would make a good Mother's Day gift. I want something easy and in the round. There are just so many to dig through.

FO & WIP

I finished the Knotty but Nice hat for Ryan last week. It looks great. The cables are a bit tight around the middle, like many of the comments said, but with the blocking and the stretchiness of the yarn, I think it should be fine. It was a really fun knit and the yarn I used (Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece) was really nice to work with. I have almost half the skein left, so I might make myself a pair of fingerless gloves.





I restarted a sweater I started a long time ago. I got the yarn for a steal from Webs. Since it's a bulky yarn on size 13 needles, it's a pretty quick knit. I'm almost done with the back piece. I'm excited to get this done and start wearing it around! I have a feeling this is going to be a favorite item in my closet.

Saturday Night

We just got back from Target. I got my student loan refund check today and we've been wanting a Wii for a while so we decided to go for it. We ended up coming home with an Xbox 360 instead. They were out of Wiis (yet again) and since we both wanted both systems, we got the 360. It's very nice and pretty. We got Call of Duty 4 and Assassin's Creed.

We're not playing now because we are watching the end of the OSU-Wisconsin game. It didn't start showing here until after the USC game was so far gone that they changed it. Apparently, they don't think that people in the West want to watch Big 10 games. Boo. But I'm glad they switched it over because we got to see the last 10 minutes and some great plays.

On the knitting side of things, I'm still churning out dishcloths like there's no tomorrow. I've finished 2 in the last few days. All I really have the time or energy for is mindless, small knitting. I need to print out a few new patterns for blanket squares. I can definitely keep working on those.

I have some yarn from Webs coming Monday to make this.

Since it has such an insanely weird name, I'm calling it Eskimo. I'm really looking forward to knitting it. It should be a quick knit with such chunky yarn. (The name of the yarn I ordered totally escapes me, but it was a steal at $2 a ball!)

And I really need to make some of these little poseable skeletons. They are so frakkin' cute.