Full disclosure: I was naughty and cast on for a
Stannum Cardigan last night, but it will be what I work on when I'm not in the mood to work on some of my more detailed WIPs since it's a simple top-down raglan sweater, so lots of stockinette that's good for knitting on auto-pilot. This is a picture of the pattern as given, but mine will be all one color:
I also will be doing regular ribbing on the neckband, unless I have a TON of yarn left at the end and then I might be cheeky and do some kind of reversible/lays-flat stitch pattern instead...we'll see. What yarn am I using? I'm glad you asked:
It's color T15 which is a really pretty deep blue-green jewel tone with lots of little pretty tweedy flecks of color. I love that it's a soft singles yarn too because I think it will give my sweater a nice rustic look.
And now for some languishing WIPs that I absolutely need to finish, like, ASAP:
This is one from my Grandmother's Closet pattern line that I've really been excited to finish for a long time, but I got in my own way on this one when I decided I wasn't being "random enough" which is the human way of saying I didn't assign order to my randomness. Now that I've been replaced by a robot that looks, walks, talks, and acts just like..."me," I realize this is silly and I need to just finish it already. Now I just need to scare up more of the yarn I was using to edge and join the motifs (there's another skein somewhere deep in my stash) and then I need to figure out what it's going to be. I'm thinking of a hat/cowl convertible sort of situation...maybe. Or maybe just a plain ol', long scarf. I'm tempted to rip out the Shibui edging yarn and use something cheaper / more plentiful from my stash...but I've already woven the ends in on a lot of these and that would feel like a complete waste of some very expensive yarn, so we'll see...I am holding the yarn double, so maybe I can fade in another color.
Another one from Grandmother's Closet that's been just laying around unloved and unworked on for far too long is this guy:
It's bad enough he's a fake dead animal. For me to not "FINISH HIM!" (actually
literally ironically—how many times does one get to turn that phrase???) just makes it worse. He's (I don't know why I'm personifying a fake dead animal—maybe that's worst of all?) going to get a lining to hide the wrong side and ensure the knitting lays flat. The thinking was to use a cashmere sweater I've felted and cut to fit, but I may be so bold as to do a pretty patchwork design in a couple of colors or just pay for some really pretty plaid flannel. I'm most likely going to put a button under the head to lock the scarf in place so it doesn't have to be freakishly long / give it the classic biting its own tail look. After all, this isn't a dachshund or ferret scarf.
These are still
another Grandmother's Closet design that I've let collect dust for far too long. I know where these are. I know where the yarn is to work that last thumb, and I have plenty of yarn to complete the embroidery. The only thing holding me up on this one is ME. I'm hoping to get enough patterns in each of my design lines that I can release some e-books soon.
Last but not least, I have sad news: a design of mine that I had to put in storage prior to finishing seems to be GONE. I can't find it anywhere. [Insert a GIF of Charlton Heston ranting and raving at the end of Planet of the Apes here]
It's based on the Icelandic waterfall Svartifoss (Black Falls), and *was* being knit in the most gorgeous color of Madeline Tosh Merino Light (Georgia O'Keefe colorway). I think now I will have to find another yarn to make this with, which is really depressing because I shelled out a lot of $$$ for the MTML, but that's what you get for having to move a lot, I guess. I'm thinking of holding more than one yarn together to be able to make the most of inexpensive lace or fingering weight yarn, which seem to be the best bang for the buck. Will probably do a strand of black (or dark) silk/alpaca lace blend, a strand of black merino lace, and a strand of a mohair-silk blend in a deep teal color to mimic the depth of color in the yarn I was using.
I think my best approach will be to work on the Foxy Scarf first since it is worked on 10.85mm needles so will be a good confidence boost / quick finish. After that, probably finish the Hallstatt mitts, and then the thing with the flower motifs...whatever it's going to be. Was almost tempted to make it into a hat/cowl convertible thing, but I really don't like that it has so many holes. Think I need to just buckle down and get more Shibui Pebble (I have one more skein of it buried somewhere in my stash), but until then it's at the back of the list.
Either way, I'm still working on be-tasseling my Marrakesh scarf, adding length to the massive Kuychi blanket scarf ("blarf"), and about to cast on for an Art Deco-y blouse for spring and summer. I've had this Classic Elite (RIP) Firefly in my stash for ages—and another thing: this is how bad I am about working through my stash. It's outlasted dozens of yarn lines, yarn companies, and yarn stores!—that needs to become a thing. I've got a few sketches it may become...more on that soon. That's not going to take very long to knit so may jump ahead in the queue so I can finish the pattern in a seasonally appropriate time period.
Onward and knitward, y'all!
