So, the whole fiber altar didn’t last very long.
This is my cat, who decided that shelf is the perfect launching place for the window ledge, and also the perfect place to survey his vast kingdom of the living room and dining room. This picture was actually taken back in October (even before Samhain) and now that space has been taken up by stash that doesn’t fit in the cubby holes or the large basket that’s holding the overflow. I’m having a bit of a stash problem at the moment.
At 12:01 tonight my moratorium on stash yarn begins, which is going to be a good thing. I’ve been in a weird emotional place for most of the fall, and I think my slightly out of control stash binging has been self medication. But it is about to end! I’ve promised myself, and I have more than enough to knit for a year.
I didn’t make the holiday deadline for the henry scarf for my brother or a shawl for my mother, but I did finish the gloves and hat combo for my sister. The FO post for my hat is here, and the glove post is forthcoming. I used the glove pattern from MagKnits Urban Necessity, but then decided that the mitten cap didn’t work with the single ply yarn I choose. I used Nashua Handknits Creative Focus Worsted, which doesn’t have the stitch definition of the called for Cascade 220 superwash, but I liked how the hat came out so the gloves were secondary. I just made them both straight fingerless gloves because she wanted some anyway.
Somehow I managed to loose the goknits pouch the scarf was in until about two weeks ago, after I’d restarted with the suggested yarn, and looking at both made me glad I started fresh. He’ll get the scarf for his birthday in April most likely. Mom’s shawl just went through too many changes, and it was too late by the time I finally picked a pattern I liked, Carissa Browning’s Dragon Scale shawl
On my needles now are those two projects, a set of mermaid gauntlets, and a pair of black socks for the husband, since I like to have socks around for repetitive work. I have lots of ideas for the next year in between sock clubs and year of lace, so hopefully I’ll get lots done.
I also started playing with polymer clay and jewelry again, which I only mention here because I’ve been making stitch markers. I may be making a foray in to etsy once I get some stock built up, but volunteers for beta testers are welcome too.
My mood made learning to spin less than conducive, so I had to put my wheel away for awhile, and I’m still pondering the paint job before I get into it too much that I don’t want to paint it. That will be another project for the new year, since I have high hopes for 2008. Tomorrow is organizing day, so it might be owning up to stash day too, so I can take pictures to post on ravelry. I ordered several colors of allhemp6 to make shopping bags so I have a good stash for groceries the stash moratorium is part of a bigger lets get healthy, organized, and frugal effort for next year, which means better grocery shopping. That should be coming with a few skeins of sock yarn and some vermont organic classic to match some of the 3 ply I already have for a hat and gloves.
2008 is a knitting like a fiend year.
