Project profligate

by Cheryl

The Chicago Knitapalooza ’05 was great fun! I’m glad I finally got to meet everyone from KH in person. It WAS a lot of driving and Chicago traffic on White Sox parade night…not so fun. Overall it was worth it. More on the trip later.

For now, I leave you with my many WIP’s. I have been quite the knitting slut this last week! Indiscriminately I have switched back and forth between my many yarns with no regard to safety or pleasure. Hat, scarf, sweater for dog or man…it doesn’t matter what project, I do them all! Broke out the new sewing machine too! Even my dogs are looking at me a little funny this week with all the crafty activity.

I had a minor emergency Sunday while knitting Jim’s cable sweater (see…safety IS important). I bought the Jo Sharp Silk Road Ultra at Knit On! when it was going out of business. I thought 20 balls would be PLENTY for a “Jim Sweater”. Little did I know the chosen project would involve cables and lots of them. Apparently, that takes more yarn. Quite a bit more yarn. Did I mention Jim is 6’ 4”? Even more yarn. I was going along just fine until I began the sleeves. I had about six balls left and that *seemed* like it would be close but no problem. After I ran out of the first ball though and only had about 6” of knitting I realized I had a problem (by the way knit your sleeves at the same time…great knit tip). I didn’t think it was going to be big deal since I bought it on sale not because of “its being discontinued” but rather a “going out of business please clean us out” sale. Little did I know in the short amount of time the yarn has sat in my stash, it really was discontinued! Fortunately it was Fuzzy Mabel to the rescue. In this situation, a girl just can’t afford to be picky about dye lots. I was just lucky they still had some left in my color!

Oh and another problem. My luck with hats…turns out I have none. I wanted to whip up a cute fall hat for my Chicago trip…sort of a cloche style was what I had in mind. So I took out the crochet hook for the first time in a while. While I hadn’t forgotten how to crochet, I didn’t suddenly gain mad hat making skills either. It fits but a cloche it is not. It will soon be frogged…is it still “frogging” if it’s crochet? Good question for Drew. Note to self, ask Drew. Guess I will just have to use a pattern for hats from now on.

7 comments

1 Laura { 11.01.05 at 7:42 pm }: Sure it’s frogging when you ripit all out… but just not tink’ing when you go backward. That would be tehcorc’ing! hehe

And this is how I felt :mail: when I opened my mail box a few days ago and received the darling knitting note cards!! Thanks for being such a generous contest hostess!!
2 Rebecca { 11.01.05 at 10:25 pm }: cute dog!!
3 Javede { 11.02.05 at 3:05 am }: I can just repeat what Laura said:
“And this is how I felt :mail: when I opened my mail box a few days ago and received the darling knitting note cards!! Thanks for being such a generous contest hostess!! ”

Only that it was yesterday

:thx:
4 laurie { 11.02.05 at 8:24 pm }: I never get over how cute these smilie faces are!

1) Dog. Adorable!

2) Yarn emergency = scary!

3) Hmmmm, sounds like someone has startitis…? heh heh
5 Lu { 11.03.05 at 1:57 pm }: I received my yarn yesterday :jump:

Thank you so much, it is gorgeous and I am in love :heart:

Going to knit it up very soon :knit:
6 Julie { 11.04.05 at 12:56 am }: Thanks for the cards Cheryl! It was great meeting you at Knitapalooza ‘05! :mrgreen:
7 Diva Knitting » Blog Archive » tempting the hat fates and other knit fun { 11.15.05 at 11:12 am }: [...] The hat curse may finally be broken. After looking for a simple stocking hat pattern, I came up with bubkes. So bravely I decided once again to throw caution to the wind and cast on anyway. This time it actually worked. It was so easy…I may never try to make any other kind of hat again. I’ll write up the pattern soon. I made notes as I went along on the slim chance that it actually turned out well. [...]