Current projects

According to Ravelry, I have 4 current projects with 2 in hibernation. I love that website. Being able to see where my projects are in one glance is handy. It also makes a great guilt trip because I'm not the only one who can see it. Anyone on Ravelry can see where I'm at. So, I don't like to leave projects unfinished. I need something like that for my quilting!

I have a Chinese Waves dishcloth, a pretty cream-colored tunic, a mobius scarf, and my lace shawl in progress at the moment. My hibernating projects are two pairs of socks. One was put into hibernation because I knit them too small. Doh! I used a size 0 needle instead of the size 2 it called for. Oops. hehehe The other I could technically delete because I was going to make a pair of socks for my son, but the weather warmed up first. Living in Central TX, wool socks have a short-lived season here. I had a bad time with the previous yarn I had picked out for them due to the fact it was yucky yarn. I ordered new, higher quality yarn, but it didn't arrive in time. When it arrived, the weather was warm and I decided to wait until the next time it gets cold to make them. Kids grow so fast, so I knew whatever size I made right now would never fit by the next cold snap.

I prefer to work on my lace shawl. Everything else is sort of a "whenever I feel like it" project. I've been working on the dishcloth recently. I was suffering from some nasty tension headaches caused by tight shoulder muscles. The washcloth pattern is so simple that I figured I could work on it for awhile without causing any problems. I'm only doing them because I had some cheap cotton yarn left over from my previous knitting stint. I figured it would work for fast projects. I came across a pattern for a Swiffer mop cover that I'm hoping to make before long. I do not like the disposable cloths you buy for those, so this will be a nice change, as well as making the Swiffer mop usable again. Oddly enough, if I like it, I will need to pick up some more cotton yarn to make a few more as I'm down to my last two skeins.

My friend and I are doing the lace shawl together. For awhile, we were neck and neck in making it, but I pulled ahead by several rows when some health problems got the best of her. When you're talking 300+ stitch rows, that's a lot of work. My tension headaches are going to allow her to catch up. That and I want to finish my Chinese Waves dishcloth before returning to it. I hope to finish that up today.

Now, since this is a new blog, and I am trying to back track through some information and catch up my non-existent readers, I will do a new entry for my newest toys. Pictures will begin to appear. Isn't that neat? lol Don't mind me. You'll find that I'm a wee bit odd. ;-)