Sick Again!

[liralen]

I know, Willyum will be grumpy with me again, but he's sick, too, so bleh.

What's worst is that I'm dreaming of six different designs and knitting/spinning/felting projects in my sleep. I even unearthed two fleeces from the basement and am contemplating renting a carding machine for a weekend to just power through them. Baahh.

I may as well list everything in my knitting brain here:
- Mikayla's Socks (in the blue, green, yellow, and purple Kool-Aid colorway)
- Macy's Socks (in something fiery, maybe the two-ply mistake of Great Balls of Fire, as she'll outgrow them before they wear out)
- Jet's socks (in Starry Night which I have spun already)
- Dean's red rocks socks
- John's traditional Scottish Kilt socks (from the Folk Socks)
- Cathie's Autumn Clapotis from the yarn I spun from the hand-dyed wool that's kind of autumny but also really beautifully bold when I do it three-ply
- The simple shrug from the Craft Yarn Council of America using Lagoon Sparkles from KnitPicks. FOR ME!
- The Phoenix sweater for ME!
- A felted backpack as an experiment with some medium Corridale.

This is not nearly including a few tons of "for charity" knits I'm contemplating as well. *sigh*

And I lost a darn two pound spool of medium, white wool top along with a spool of medium brown wool and I have this terrible feeling I threw them away or something. More likely I gave it away when I really think about it and I have more dropdead gorgeous merino in my boxes than I really have any right to.

Updated 9/12/2006 with things that are done.

Comments

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

The knitting thing that is currently eating my head is argyle socks. The traditional knit-flat-at-the-top kind in intarsia with the contrast stripes knitted in (not duplicate stitched on after) and the seams up the back and at the gussets and the foot in the round. In Lots! Of! Colors! -- I actually just bought Dale Baby Ull for the first pair, which will be purple with two shades of pink for the diamonds and two shades of green for the stripes. LOUD socks! I can't wait. I am desperately making myself finish a pair of toddler socks before I even swatch on the argyles, because otherwise they'll languish until they're outgrown, I feel sure.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!

I'm sure the toddler socks would languish if you started the cool stuff first. :-) I'm impressed. I love the detailing you're talking about. Mmm... Lots! Of! Colors! Nice, loud colors, too.

Intarsia makes a lot of sense with all the colors involved. I've never researched argyles before, but cool to hear about your head-eating knitting thing. Sounds like fun.

Sun and moon sweater

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

That is the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen. If we were to ever meet, I'd ask to touch your knitting needles.

I've knitted several pairs of socks and some cardigans and pullovers and a hat. Nothing in patterns yet. My cousin showed me a picture of a sweater with crows walking around the bottom. I'd like to try that.

I will NEVER be able to knit anything like that sun and moon sweater, though. Wow.

Re: Sun and moon sweater

[liralen.livejournal.com]

You will. :-) It's just one stitch at a time, and all knits, too! *grin*

I guess, taken all at once, it's kind of intimidating, but all knitting is just one stitch at a time, which is why I love it so much. Kinda like life, sometimes, for me.

When I take life all at once, I get overwhelmed and go, "AH! I'll never do that!!" but when I just go a step at a time... I often surprise myself by what I can do.

But crows sound cool! You should try that.