Vacation Begins today...

and I'm back with more of my insanity. In my last post, I mentioned an OLD wip.

This is an afghan I started in 1994 for a friend of mine who moved into an apartment complex very close to where I lived. I had such grand ideas of finishing this in no time flat to surprise her with this housewarming gift. Ha!! never happened. This ghan has 20 repeats of a 20 row pattern, and the pattern is wrong, too. Uh...I've only done 6 repeats. I used to tell myself that if I could do 2 rows a day I could finish it in (insert number of days--since I'm too lazy these days to do the math). Ok, so now it's 2008. Wonder how much longer it will be a wip? I hate to tell you, but this isn't my oldest wip. Wonder who could have the record for the oldest wip? That would be neat to know.

I've since stopped the knit1 tunic, and started something else...remember my bit about inspiration. I'm a lot further along than this, but I wanted to show how much yarn I've got since I may run out. BTW, this is yarn I found at a thrift store in 2004. The addis are new, however. When you knit continental, do your shoulders hurt? I also have like carpal tunnel in my right palm. When I knit english, I get horrible tendonitis in my right elbow. A lot of my pain is exacerbated by metal needles, but I didn't have any #4's in nylon.

And again, a doggie pic...my baby girl is getting spayed on Monday, thus the vacation. I want to be able to be at her disposal since she's such a "wittle" thing. I'm hoping to accomplish more knitting and some sewing. I did a little pre-vacation sewing..namely, repair work. The baby dog is a chewer, and completely torn up her doggie bed. I replaced the bottom with thrift store fabric, and it came out quite good if I do say so myself. She also destroyed a pillow case for a body pillow, so I made a new one out of an old sheet-this I've done before. I have more repair work lying around, and some alteration stuff. Yuck. I hate being short.

Holy time warp, Batman!

Yes, it's unbelievable that I completely missed January, but since I am FO posting, I feel it somehow balances out everything.

Now, better late than never-I actually wrapped up 2007 with a project completed on 12-31. It's been done before, but not by me until now! Spicy fitted tee from Fitted Knits. When I started this, I obviously lost my mind, and couldn't understand the directions. It came out huge. After 3 froggings from the underarm, I was able to make it work for me. I would venture to guess that this was started around summer of 2007, and finished on the last day of the year. It sat in my knitting bag being punished for being such a difficult wench. I knit it on size 10 nylon circs with what i think was 8-9 balls of now discontinued Lion Brand 'Kool Wool". It fits like a glove and I love it...except for one small thing...the garter stitch hem rolls! I hate that!

And since I was so pleased with myself at finishing that, I started the puff sleeve cardi from the same book!! Ah...the explanation was so clear to me now...I still can't figure out why I had the total meltdown to start with. Anyway, here she is...the sweater-not the puppy!!!

Start date-12-31-07

Completed-1-20-08

Knit with Reynolds "Tucson", 7 balls.....size 6 cnylon circs-thank you , Cindy!- I was really cranking on this and just knitted away night after night...completely clueless...IT"S TOO FRICKIN" HUGE!!!!!!!! I lost my mind when I tried it on...why, oh, why, hadn't I measured the gauge????!!!!!! It will be visiting the frog pond when I have the heart and strength to rip it out. And, if that wasn't enough, I found a cutie on the garnstudio site, I immediately cast on for it, only to discover that no yarn and no size needle in my stash would work...again, too big! My mojo is so off....

What does a knitter do? Not stand defeated...I cast on for another project in the queue..the Knit1 tunic from fall 2007. The downside is that like a fool I decided to go ahead and use LB 'Wool-ease". That stuff pills like a mother, but I'm running with it...(uh..it wasn't even stash yarn, but since it was cheap...I cheated) Here's a WIP photo for ya..My only mod is to do it on circs since I hate seaming, and quite frankly, my seaming looks like dog doo. Anyhoo, it's zipping along, and my mojo, although squashed, has rebounded. Once this is completed, it'll be a heyday to see what I do next. I will say, that I know this about myself, I absolutely have to be inspired to take a project to completion. Next time I will show you one of the oldest wips that suddenly inspired me again!