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.

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.

Euroflax sport: An idea.

That damn high maintenance yarn has been laundered, but not yet wound into balls.

After knitting up the shawlette, I have an idea for what to make of these skeins...

and I think I'm going to need a third one. *sigh* oh well, I will see when the time comes.

Scheaffer Anne: Star stitch shawlette

This skein of sock yarn? Loved it.

but I hate knitting socks. this is a simple fact. so it laid around for a while, until I decided to make it into a shawlette while I taught myself Star Stitch.

It's nice. I just have to figure out what I want for a border...