Happy New Year to everyone out there reading this!
I have already had a very productive new year, I have started a Clapotis. I may be late to the party, but oh well. I’ve had two skeins of Handmaiden Lady Godiva in my stash for a while. Almost two years, I think (I had a gift certificate to my then-LYS, and wanted to splurge). For a while it was going to be a Braided Mischief scarf from Scarf Style, but I frogged that idea after almost one skein.
Yesterday I Googled ‘Clapotis’ and ‘lady godiva’ and found Kneurotic Knitter, who has made one out of exactly two skeins of the same yarn! She mentions that she only did one less increase repeat, and still managed 12 repeats of the straight rows. I wasn’t sure how much to reduce it by, I probably would’ve gone with more, and had stuff leftover (never like that).
So today, during another D&D session, I started, and am almost to the point where I can drop my first stitch. Well, I’m about 12 rows away.
I’ve also joined two knitalongs recently, the Romantic Style one, and the Victorian Lace Today one. I already have RS, I bought it at work a few days ago (40% off, oh yeah), but we’ve been out of VLT for a while now. Sold out at the publishers, surprise surprise. We should be getting one this week though. I ordered a few but when I called to check, they’d only sent us one because they were short copies. Still unsure as to projects, but I think I really want to do the hooded shrug from RS. VLT I need to look through more (I have browsed, while pretending to work).
Problem with all this newfound knitting mojo is that for January at least, I have no free time. Well, I have Saturdays off, so there is one day a week where I have to fit in sleeping in, tidying, laundry, eating, lazing, and knitting. The other 6 days of the week are writeoffs.
Knitting resolutions?
1. Knit from the stash (this isn’t hard and fast, but I just want to keep my yarn to the one storage thing. Thing is full right now, so I need to stash-bust to have room for more)
2. Finish a sweater
3. Only join knitalongs I will participate in (I haven’t forgotten you, Cardigan for Arwen KAL! I swatched on Dec. 31st!)
The knit from stash thing is sticky… I have a reservation for Blue Moon’s Rocking Sock club. I don’t have that money to spare. Well, I do have it in my savings, but I try not to touch that. I don’t know what to do. I’ve emailed to ask if the stuff is superwash. If it isn’t, decision is made for me: I won’t knit handwash socks. If it is… we’ll get to that.
