High learning curve, little time

One of my other interests is cycling, and luckily my city has a pretty good social bike scene. we've started a semi-annual event called the Tweed Ride. This isn't original to us here in Calgary by any means.

I didn't go to the spring Tweed Ride because... well I didn't have any tweed. I did want to change that in time for Fall Tweed, which is the last Friday of the month. And I still didn't have any tweed!

Well, I've changed that a bit. I now have a nice tweed blazer, and it's something that i will wear all the time, rather than relegate it to costume status. I also picked up a pair of tweed pants that I'm going to cut to calf length to wear as cycling knickers. I already have a couple pairs of knee high cuffed socks that would work well.

And i'm knitting a waistcoat of my own design.

i swatched for it eight times before I settled on the cable pattern I wanted. I took my measurements and drew a quick schematic and I just started knitting it today.

I have...twelve days to complete the knitting, so time for blocking, and putting on the buttons and such.

I haven't found the blouse I'm going to wear under it. I might just wear my merino base layer and call it good. But the designing was an interesting experience. I'll keep track of it.

Progress on the queue

July

[x] Finish Giulietta socks - b project
[ ] Finish the pink dress
[ ] Weeping angels socks
[ ] Finishing Sylvi
[ ] Finish Circles of Noro cardigan
[ ] Elysium cardigan

So now I am free to cast on for weeping angels but I'm going to wait until I make progress on the pink dress and that means all projects will be in coventry for the rest of the weekend while I knit stockinette in the round.

 August

[ ] Elysium shawl August c project
[ ] Brown brocade texture vest
[ ] Celtic knit cabled capelet
[ ] Colour work capelet
[ ] Better bucket hat 



Something I didn't note - I already have the yarn for all of these projects, save the Better Bucket Hat.

HEY LOOK WHAT I FOUND

It occurs to me that since I have a lot of projects I want to do that I could keep track of them on a blog that connects to ravelry so anyone who wishes to read more of my distracted rambling about yarn can see just how many times I have an idea and then it changes or gets abandoned.

So I will now list my queue. which is unrealistically long. I know. I KNOW. But I want to put an order on things here so I don't forget about things that I want to do.

 July

[ ] Finish Giulietta socks - b project
[ ] Finish the pink dress
[ ] Weeping angels socks
[ ] Finishing Sylvi
[ ] Finish Circles of Noro cardigan
[ ] Elysium cardigan

 August

[ ] Elysium shawl August c project
[ ] Brown brocade texture vest
[ ] Celtic knit cabled capelet
[ ] Colour work capelet
[ ] Better bucket hat




I know. that's way too much knitting. I will never do all that in the time provided. This is just a way to try and stay on track. I know that things are going to get deferred and new projects will pop up, but right now, I am only using knitting time on my Giulietta socks and the pink dress which is stuck in stockinette hell. 


this list will be revised and I'll talk a bit more about my knitting much more often. Promise.