Tuesday, April 2, 2024

New on the Needles

New on the needles right now: last week I hadn't picked up any knitting at all. It was really bothering me until I realized that I was bored with all of my current wips. I lectured myself to buck up and finish something so I could cast on something new and then realized that not casting on something new was a self-imposed knitting rule and I could just cast something new on.

I had bought the yarn for the Just Beachy shawl from my favorite LYS in Milwaukee, Cream City Yarn in September of 2021. I was rumaging through my yarn stash and ran across the Emma's Yarns kit in the St Pete collection for the Just Beachy MKAL that was kicking off that fall.  

Exactly a week after, I decided to completely deconstruct my life and sell my house and move to Belgium for a job so any new knitting projects were off the table. Fast-forward almost three years later, I decided it was time to join in. I'm just about to add the third color and am completely in love with it. A couple of the conch stitches are a little wonky, but since I'm making this for myself, I'm ok with them. 

I'm really glad (even though I ended up buying a whole new suitcase in order to do it) that I brought all of my remaining stash yarn back to Belgium with me on my last trip. I've been loving getting reacquainted with it and having a good selection to choose from. 

What am I bored with knitting right now? I have the following on the needles: 
  • Seersucker socks from Modern Daily Knitting's Field Guide No. 11 Wanderlust in Cascade Yarns Heritage in 5607 Red. (I will do a heel flap instead of the short row version in the guide. I have found it works better for my foot.)
  • Anne Budd's Basic Sock in Schoeller & Stahl Fortissima colorway 506 Black Edition. (I almost always have a set of these on the needles. This pattern is usually my purse and car knitting.)
  • Yorlin by Kate Davies Designs in (I think) Kickapoo Ewetopia fingering weight yarn. (I can't find the yarn label - it was deep stash yarn that I acquired several years ago.)
  • Find Your Fade by Andrea Mowry in several different skeins of Wild Haven Sonder Sock (sadly since discontinued, I loved her colorways).  I just want to comment here that I was very excited to knit this shawl and still think it's a gorgeous pattern, but it's such a snore to knit.
  • I also have the Beekeeper Cardigan by Marie Greene in Quince & Co Phoebe in blue. This has been hibernating a loooonnnngggg time and I will pick it up again, just not this week. 
  • Additionally, the Corstorphine by Ysolda Teague is lingering on the needles as well. I finally realized that I've been avoiding it because I am not happy with the color choice I made for the main color. I think I have something in my stash that I will like better so I will likely frog what I have so far (part of a sleeve) and recast on.
  • Not really on the needles, but a fiber project nonetheless, I am working on weaving a color gamp shawl on my Cricket rigid heddle loom using Sweet Georgia Tough Love sock Party of Five (I can't remember what the color combination was called, and unfortunately, it's a discontinued set).    

I am definitely a multi-project knitter. Depending on my mood, how inspired I feel and the level of challenge I'm up to will dictate what project I pick up when. Right now, I'm spending a lot of time in study group calls in preparation for sitting for the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect certification, I knit simple projects such as the Basic sock or dishcloths to keep me focused on the subject at hand but keep my hands busy. 

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