...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...

Louet Euroflax: high maintenance.

I have been tearing my hair out over this stuff.


I bought two skeins of Wuroflax wetspun fine yarn in a beautiful shade of brown, and it defies me at every turn.

apparently it biases when knitted in stockinette, so my notion of a simple draping design is out. apparently it's best for lace.

I suck at lace.

it's also stiff as twine and it doesn't matter how tiny my needles are, the stitches come out huge.

well the good ladies at ravelry say that it should be prewashed.

I've already wound it into balls.

*headdesk*

Adventures in Bargain Yarn - The Sean Sheep Sweater

I think I'm going to frog it and start over.

But I stare at it, all those stitches, and I just kind of muppet flail at undoing so much work. but at the same time, I've made a number of mistakes, there are things about it I want to change, and changing them means that I have to start over from the beginning.

And I'm going to. it may be bargain yarn, but it shouldn't be *wasted* yarn.

Please hold this thread as I walk away...