The yarn store finally got the rest of the Peace Fleece for the laptop cozy. So I finished that in class on Friday. Today I lugged the entire mitered square tunic and covered my entire lap with it. I expect that will be done (except for the button band and blocking) on Wednesday. Then I have only the Noro socks, which are too tiny to knit in lecture and make my fingers hurt after a few rows anyways.
My MIL heard my stash woes, and fedexed me a HUGE box of yarn from her stash, including some handspun. It got home today and I barely avoided skipping work to run home and see it. We have game night tonight, and I made my husband promise I could have special yarn time before and after the game. It's my hope to bang out a Picovoli-inspired v-neck vest in the next few weeks, and some hats for the baby, and some fingerless mittens in a lighter weight. Then maybe some Red Sox Socks for the fam for next winter holiday.
28 January 2008
22 January 2008
Lecture knitting
As it happens, this quarter I go to lecture for 2 hours MWF mornings. I sit in the back, take notes, and knit. I'm not taking the class; the notes are for research. That's WAY more time to knit than I'm used to, but it's a special kind of knitting.
I can do easy projects. Cables, yes. Worsted weight, yes. Stockinette, yes. Anything requiring a chart, no. Sock yarn, no. Large projects that take up more space than my lap, no.
Because of last year's stash diet, my stash is tiny. We're talking could-fit-in-one-gallon-ziploc tiny. I've run out of worsted weight yarn. I've run out of small projects. I have some Noro socks on the needles, but size 0 is just too small to bring to class (bad lighting). I have a mitered square tunic vest on the needles, but it's too large to fit in my lap. I have a felted laptop bag, but I ran out of yarn and had to special order more. I finished my Clapotis.
What to make! I'm frogging some of a Peace Fleece sweater for reknitting in lecture. I think I'll make some gloves out of some gorgeous purple Wool Bam Boo. Gloves are a great gauge swatch, and I might want to make a Picovoli out of the same yarn. Then... then I'm out of yarn. Perhaps the laptop yarn will have come in?
I can do easy projects. Cables, yes. Worsted weight, yes. Stockinette, yes. Anything requiring a chart, no. Sock yarn, no. Large projects that take up more space than my lap, no.
Because of last year's stash diet, my stash is tiny. We're talking could-fit-in-one-gallon-ziploc tiny. I've run out of worsted weight yarn. I've run out of small projects. I have some Noro socks on the needles, but size 0 is just too small to bring to class (bad lighting). I have a mitered square tunic vest on the needles, but it's too large to fit in my lap. I have a felted laptop bag, but I ran out of yarn and had to special order more. I finished my Clapotis.
What to make! I'm frogging some of a Peace Fleece sweater for reknitting in lecture. I think I'll make some gloves out of some gorgeous purple Wool Bam Boo. Gloves are a great gauge swatch, and I might want to make a Picovoli out of the same yarn. Then... then I'm out of yarn. Perhaps the laptop yarn will have come in?
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