Its cold and rainy out after a beautiful sunny 80F yesterday and I have projects to get finished. Guess its a good thing tonight is UFO night! And, now I’m making my next Top Ten list public. I really need encouragement to get these projects finished so I can move on to the new stuff!
1. duplicate stitch name on Stocking (for customer)
2. Galway set-in sleeve cap pattern (for customer) [and possibly reknit it]
3. Cassidy in Shepherd’s Wool Great Lakes colorway (back done, working on fronts).
4. February Lady Sweater in Dream in Color Classy Black Pearl (working way down the front to the armhole).
5. Shawl (but I’m doing the scarf size which will look like a shawl on me!) using Mountain Colors Half Wool Crepe (named because it is half a ball of Wool Crepe) in Harmony Lake (airplane and hospital knitting).
6. Insouciant Sock in Heritage Handpaint (need to finished one before sock class resumes April 17).
7. repair on Penny’s Dale of Norway’s Baby Uhl sweater (maybe I can convince her I need to keep it on display since we now have the pattern and yarn, albeit new colorways, for said baby sweater).
8. Noni’s Bowling Ball bag (using scrap Shepherd’s Wool, testing Size 9.5US HiyaHiya Interchangeable – OH YES!!! — can’t wait for the real thing!).
9. Ribby Cardi from ChicKnits (Shepherd’s Wool brown/lt Turquoise on 860+ribber)
10. Cable Sweater for Knitting Today News Issue 4 (on USM)
Really? That’s all that is on the needles in plain sight? Its do-able, right?
Okay, now we’ll start listing what is hidden on the shelf, in knitting bags around the store, or is done but needs ends finished or blocked . . .
1. Wrap me up shawl – ends (would like to do this again in sock yarn!).
2. Swirl Shawl from Melody Superwash by Jojoland – block.
3. Miralda’s shawl, Knitted Lace of Estonia, from Domy Heather (oh, I want to stock this yarn!) – block.
4. In the Pink – block.
5. baby snowman from Marie Mayhew’s Felted Snowman pattern – started.
6. Butterfly Garden blanket using Kona Superwash.
7. 8 hours baby Blanket using Encore.
8. Filigree Lace Shawl - in Alpaca With a Twist Fino (which I need done by Stitches Midwest 2010 to wear as a sample).
Things I want to start?? Okay, I won’t go there. Maybe after I get a few things knocked off the UFO list. I’ll report back after tonight because I have some really great projects in mind for classes this summer/fall. Plus, I have a couple of huge projects I’m working on: MK Unite! [a retreat for machine knitters with myself, Heather Thompson, Michelle Teasley (shoot, forgot her married name! Sorry, Michelle!), Susan Guagliumi and Mary Anne Oger] for this summer, a new website design, Knitting Today News Issue 4 cables, “Make Your Sweater Fit” class, as well as a handknitting retreat for Fall.
I’d like to know I’m not alone in the whole project overload arena. . . What is your project list? I have an extremely useful Fold ‘n Go tool tote to give away to one lucky winner. Drawing will be held May 16! Tell your friends to comment too. All comments must be on the blog (facebook fans, twitter followers, click the post link and go to the website to comment). If we go over 25 comments, I’ll add a couple more prizes to the pool. . . . post away! Lea-Ann
Was a winner ever announced?
Hey there, Jane,
Thanks for the description/explanation of the Booga bag! I’ll pass the idea on to a couple of friends who are REALLY! into making purses!
Thank you again!
Tina E, Greeley, Colorado, USA
A Booga bag is a wonderfully easy pruse knit from three skeins of Noro Kureyon and then felted. I’ve made approx. 10 of them as gifts and for a silent auction or two. The pattern is from Black Sheep Bags, and Lea-Ann has the pattern at the shop. If you want a fun, fast, mindless-knit that your girlfriends will all love, this is the bag to knit! I think Lea-Ann has some new colorways of Kureyon ordered…
Oh, another question, this time to Lea-Ann, what’s duplicate stitch? Is it anything like applied I-cord or something similar?
Thanks,
Tina E
Hello, Jane,
Maybe a silly question, but what is a Booga bag? Very curious!
Tina E
I am working on a afghan using all my left over and other yarns I have in the house. I want to make a afghan using a rainbow effect.
Way too many UFO’s on my needles…
1. An unfinished “blasted baby blanket” Hard lesson learned: do not commit to knit for someone else on “commission.”
2. A half finished scarf using trellis yarn. Penny took one look at it at and said, “Oh, that stuff.” Not much fun to knit with.
3. One baby sock; green.
4. One yellow dish cloth, barely begun
5. One shawl in a funky blue/lavendar cotton
6. A Booga Bag, 2/3 finished that I’m working on now
7. Three (or maybe four) wool eyeglasses cases to seam up and felt
8. Another baby blanket in Encore pink swirl
9. A premie cap in left-over sock yarn
10. A red scarf using a suede and glitzy eyelash yarn knitted together
11. A darling baby sock shaped like a duck foot, but the pattern isn’t darling, and I’m stuck. Lea-Ann, I need you! HELP!
Sigh. Off the top of my head, a pair of socks where one is finished, put aside for a few years and then started the second, which looks like it will be one or two sizes bigger despite several rip outs and start overs. My first attempt at knit two at the same time on two double pointed needle socks. A shawl in a lovely but complicated lace pattern is about a third done after five years. and last but not least, the back and half of the front of a toddler sweater for my son who is now 15. Maybe I’ll finish it when he has kids.
Hmmm, I have a couple recent UFO’s from the last few years, and then one from … … probably at least ten years ago (wow, has it really been THAT long?) in a huge duffle bag of yarn that’s in storage at the moment.
I have a Basketweave afghan, and don’t ask me what possessed me to cast on some 300+ stitches on size 8 40″ circs that time!–Bigger isn’t always easier to get motivated to finish,
. I started it in fall of 2006, since I finally learned to knit that year. It was also before I fully realized how much knitting stretches! I don’t think I was intending to make an afghan the size of a king-size bedspread! I might eventually frog it, and make it half as wide, since it isn’t even near halfway done. Then I’ll make a whole normal-width afghan out of that yarn.–Hey, cool, writing this out is helping me think!
I have a big crochet ripple afghan, well about half of it is done, and it’s the one in the duffle bag of yarn. It was intended for the parents of a friend who’s not a friend anymore–and hasn’t been for almost that ten years. Currently, the idea of it doesn’t hold particularly great memories for me, but I bet if I dig it back out from storage this summer–well late summer so I don’t roast under it–when I start in on it again, I can attach new and better memories to it. I could give it to someone who has a decidedly more genuine and positive influence on my life these days. If I hadn’t stored all of that, I wonder if I would have accumulated quite as much yarn around here as I currently have? Okay, undoubtedly, since it’s difficult to pass up yarn (especially if it’s remotely ON SALE!! but sometimes I wonder.
All I know is, thank goodness for the Seed Stitcher that I bought a few years ago from Knitting Today on EBay, since it’s saved me from countless rows and hours of frogging to fix knitting ooopses! Without it, I’d have many more UFO’s around, due to frogging frustrations! YAY TO THE SEED STITCHER GADGET!
Sincerely,
Tina E
I am fairly new to knitting, so I am still on a couple of basic projects. I am using a couple of practice swatches from very bulky yarn for a bag and pencil case for my daughter (just need to sew linings)and I am knitting a scarf using a basic basket weave design (practicing knit/purl stuff). I am trying not to have too many knitting projects at a time– yet. BUT, I did order more needles…
I seem to have finished off alot of my UFO’s this winter but the one I wish I would finish is A cardigan I knit for my daughter…5 years ago! I just have to do those pesky button holes and finish it! I will be so happy when I am done with it, so why do I keep starting new things?
The only UFOs I have on needles are two pairs of socks that I started 3-4 years ago. Both pairs have one sock completed, and the second one just needs the foot to be done. Regarding machine knit UFOs…. I have several projects that I started and never finished. I got side tracked by my love of rubber stamping… which gives much more instant gratification. A week ago I started a handknit garter stitch scarf using Paton’s ChaCha and Sirdar Snowflake. It is one of those projects that doesn’t requre alot of thought. It is inspiring me to get out those socks and get them finished! :O)
I have 6 lap robes that I need to finish, I made them last year for a nursing home, I knitted 14 of them and was working on the borders and got so tired of working on the same thing, I finished 8 of them and delivered to the nursing home but still have the others waiting to be finished, I just can not get back into them. guess I need to put a bag in the car with one and work on it as we are out and about.
Do you REALLY want me to admit that there are UFOs in my home???
I only have about 6 sweaters knit and needing to be blocked and seamed (that I can remember off the top of my head – there may be more but I am afraid to go look). Then there is the cotton sweater I started last fall that needs the fronts knit before assembly – back and sleeves are done. Then there is the one I am currently knitting on. If you count all the sweaters I have the yarns and patterns for, the list is endless. If you count the ones that I knit before adding pounds (that need to be frogged because they are already too small), the list is substantially shorter. While there may always be too many pounds, there is never too much yarn.
Oh so many…
1. 5 dishcloths to finish trim.
2. 2 children sweaters for my grand kids.
3. 1 pair of socks on my circulars.
4. 2 pairs of slippers to finish knitting then felt.
5. 1 dress scarf for the office.
6. 1 purple wash cloth for my grand daughters bath time.
All fun stuff. School business is done in a week and then knitting assignments begin.