New Beginnings

Part of every trip I take is getting my travel knitting together.  This poor Vivian sweater has been back and forth to Arizona multiple time and yet has languished  on the needles since December 18th of LAST YEAR. 1  It probably wasn’t the best choice for a travel project then either, cast on for last year’s trip to AZ around Christmas.  Our trips typically include plenty of relaxation time and knitting time yet I haven’t been able to force myself to pay attention to Vivian.  As you can see there are plenty of cables and multiple charts which require some focused knitting.  It would be great to have this beautiful sweater in time to wear for the rest of winter, so I’m really going to try to give it some quality time this trip.

Of course, I still need a mindless project for times when I just can’t do focused knitting so I cast on some new socks.  I chose the beautiful Veronica yarn from Dizzy Blonde Studios and used my typical Judy’s Magic cast on, 24 stitches each sock, US 1, magic loop.  I decided it might be good to knit something besides the monkey pattern again so I found an easy lace pattern; Coupling from Knitty.com.  I’m sure anything will be lovely with this yarn but I can’t wait to see what the yarn/pattern combination looks like a little further along.

I’m shocked I got in another post before Christmas, but I was inspired (or procrastinating) so there.  I hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday.  I normally don’t do resolutions but I’m planning some big ones for 2010.  I’m going to share them here so I’ll have some perceived responsibility to work on my list throughout the year.  I’ll be posting a resolutions list soon and I’m looking forward to reading some of yours too!

1. Isn’t that one of the best things about Ravelry.com?  You know exactly how long your WIPs have been laying around.  Guilt helps get knitting finished. [↩]