I followed the lead of some other Summer of Stash-ers and catalogued my stash this evening. eek. Scary. If you took all my yarn and tied it end-to-end, it’d be 8km long.
And surprisingly, it’s all kept in these containers: Okay, there is a fourth in that set, under my bed. But that’s 2km per tub! And those are pretty small tubs.
I took photos of everything I have project ideas for, and they’re all here.
2km of that stash is entirely Waterspun. Some people have their Koigu, the STR, their Cottonease, I have Waterspun. I bought 12 in chocolate brown for a knitted skirt pattern 2 years ago, which I never made (smart move, past me), I have 2 and a bit leftover from my Rogue (in a camel/tan shade) and then my SP7 sent me 3 in a lovely denim blue.
Now, I did have an idea of what to do with this yarn. I wanted to make a Sunrise Circle jacket out of it. But just now, as I was sorting, I actually looked at the tag, and the gauge is wrong. Now, I could adjust, but with such an oddly-constructed pattern I don’t know if it would work. I mean, I tried to do that for Rogue and ended up with a too-small Waterspun sweater. I don’t need two.
But my bright idea was to make the body in the chocolate colour, then use either the denim or the tan as the hem facings, just to add a little something. I think it’d look cool, but I’d need a different yarn, and I’m not buying yarn until the stash is down to three or less of those containers. CLARIFICATION: and by that I mean I want my stash to always fit in 3 or less of those tubs. So once I’m down to three, I’ll need to get rid of another sweater’s worth before I buy more.
I have been working on my lace project, here’s a progress shot:

Does the sock in the big picture look like it’s yawning? I think it is, and that’s just how I feel about it. But I want to finish the pair, I really do. It’s just slow going.

Oh, and remember in my last post I said I have somewhere to live when I’m done here? I don’t anymore. Still searching.

So I went home last night, and finished off the last few rows of heel flap for my Amazing Lace Project - IK’s Simply Lovely Lace Socks. I had been wondering about this flap, thinking these socks muct be doing something slightly different in their construction, as it seemed pretty thin. But I finished it, and then started on the short rows. I am making the lighter weight size (the pink one in the magazine photo), so I followed the directions for that, and realised after one short row that the heel wasn’t in the middle of the heel flap. Weird. I counted my stitches. I had forgotten which size I was making when I started the heel flap, apparently, and had only been working 24 stitches instead of 30.

So I ripped back, and started that bit again, and got to the end of the flap. That felt good. If someone (like….my sidebar!) was measuring my progress at the end of each day, there would have been no change yesterday, but I did make it right.

In other news, I HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE when my contract is up here! YAY!

Well, I haven’t posted in a while. I’m sorry, knitting world!
My lace socks are progressing slowly, I’m halfway through the heel flap of sock #1. I really haven’t had much knitting time. And I’m okay with that. I don’t need to set records.

Speaking of records, I haven’t taken any pictures of it, so to amuse those who will be blogsurfing through here, I will do that tonight, and hopefully my internet will cooperate enough to let me post them.

Why I’ve been busy? I’m moving. Again. And when I say ‘again’, it’s really the same move I’ve been talking about for a while. This August (or September) I will be moving in to an actual apartment. Not my parent’s house, not a dorm room or staff accom, but a real, live apartment. With my amazing boyfriend.
So I’ve been packing stuff up and trying to figure out how to insure my car in this province, and what to do about health care and all that fun stuff.

Work is also busy (boo). I’ve had enough of this job and am quite ready to move on. Like, NOW. But I still have a month left in my contract. Which really isn’t that much, if I think about it. But yeah, ready to go now.

And moving will be a big thing financially, and I’m ready for that. There will be less buying of yarn, definitely. I do have yarn to last me a while, as I’m assuming (hoping!) I’ll be busy with work. That’s not to say I won’t be knitting, just that little projects will take me a long time. And I’m fine with that.

Categories: Socks_

I start this cross-stich just over 10 years ago, a few days before my 12th birthday. I got this far by about September, put it down, and haven’t done anything more with it.
As I was sorting through stuff for the move, I found it and decided to finish it. These photos were taken when I found it, with nothing more added. So far, I’ve added a pair of mice. I still have the elephants, giraffes, bunnies, frogs, and some fish to go.
While I don’t mind knitting with people around, I think this one stays quieter. It’s just a bit too… I don’t know, I don’t want to say grandma-ish, as that’s what people said about knitting forever. Pass$eacute;?

That said, I still think it’s a cute little design.

I’m at my parent’s house right now, packing up two suitcases to take on the plane with me when I return on Sunday. I was very silly when I last did this; I took all my clothes last time. Now all I have to fill my cases are books and hard, heavy stuff. I mean, last time with just clothes, one case weighed more than I do, and the other one was just a tiny bit less.
Luckily, I still have some yarn stash here. So one case is yarn, Sherlock Holmes, Jasper Fforde and some old cross-stich projects, and the other is two sleeping bags and Terry Pratchett. If they search my cases, they’re going to think I only have the outfit I’m standing up it. Clothes for the weekend will be in my carry on bag.
Speaking of the cross stitch, I found the Noah’s Ark thing I started 10 years ago. TEN YEARS. I’m about 65% done, so I think I will finish it, just to have some closure, and never cross stitch again. Maybe I’ll give it to the first of my friends to have a baby, it is a fairly kiddie design. But cute, and good for X-stitch because there’s variety. I remember saying that I’d work until I finished the monkey, or the parrot, or the whale. Each animal is fairly small, so even a 12-year-old could finish one in a night. There’s just a lot of them. And borders. I took some photos, but won’t upload until I’m back at my own computer.

And now to be so I can look pretty for my friend Jilly’s wedding tomorrow.