The best laid plans

I finished my waistcoat, and it looks just wonderful, and I am so, so pleased with it

But we didn't go to the Tweed run. it was BEASTLY hot, 27 degrees, and not even remotely resembling tweed weather! now it is though, it's lovely and crisp and I should go for a ride tomorrow.

after marathoning the waistcoat I am just frazzled and so I'm not knitting anything strenuous for the alphabet Kal this month. I'm knitting a lace cowl in fine alpaca, and I'm renewing my love for the fibre. it's so soft! and very warm, warmer than wool is. I've got quite a lot of alpaca laceweight and I am not sure what i'll do with it. I have ... 2400 yards in a deep charcoal grey? which is a fantastic amount. I would love to make a gloriously dramatic stole out of it. with sleeves. so this fabulously drapey gorgeous lace...I'll have a look round ravelry and see what there is to see.

I'm also quite thrilled because I put up a picture of my port elizabeth cowl in progress and it's now featured on the pattern page! that's the first time I've ever had my work featured. it's quite exciting!

I'm still not finished my first weeping angels sock. Poor thing! It's in my bag as bus knitting and I haven't gone anywhere. I have so many projects on the needles and three of them are cowls, two of them are socks - I am absurd! i shouldn't be so scatty.

So how did I do on that Queue?

July

[x] 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
[X] Better bucket hat 

Lots of revisions to this. I wound up getting into an accident that meant i couldn't knit for a couple of weeks, and frustration with gauge on weeping angels made me frog them and use a different pair of socks for my august project. They were Cubist socks by Cookie A and I got them finished before the August 31 deadline.

the Better Buck Hat was a three day long knit, and I'm calling it a success.

So, September.

[] Weeping Angels Socks
[] Dido Scarf
[] Cabled Vest

five projects in a month, HA! I have Weeping Angels back on the needles and I've got until tomorrow to get to the first heel turn.  I haven't cast on Dido yet.

I'm swatching like mad for a cable knit waistcoat, and I keep frogging back and rejecting my swatches. I'm on attempt four right now, and the cable is complex enough that I'm giving it a bit before I decide that I hate it. It is a very complex cable and I have my doubts about using it, but I'll give it a chance for a few more rows before frogging and going with attempt 5, which will simply be Saxon Braid.

...I'm being constantly bombarded by Ideas. The latest one is double-knit in black and white on bitty needles with small sarquhar-like squares, and you decide which motif to knit next by rolling dice. It's amazing me because all I have to do is start actually knitting for extended periods of time and my to-do list grows and grows. but now I have yet another project for my queue, and I'm reminded of the fuzzy circle wrap I want to make, and and and and and. I need another one of me so i can knit more stuff!

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.