Wednesday, August 19, 2015

There is almost an embarrassing amount of yarn here

Please note, I did say almost.  While cleaning out the downstairs coat closet, I discovered five boxes, shoved out of sight and forgotten after our last move.  One of those boxes was full of yarn (two others held finished objects and fabric).   I re-discovered six sweaters worth of yarn. Six!  There were three sweaters in progress!  One was ripped out, one set aside to finish later, and one was completed twenty-four hours after being exhumed from the bottom of the box.
The ends aren't woven in, the knitting is finished, and it fits.  Definitely a win.
I am also still working on the Bovary socks by General Hogbuffer.  The yarn is KnitPicks Chroma in Lupine, not my usual choice of colors.  Loving them totally!

Quite a bit of my available time is being spent knitting up samples out of a friend's hand-dye for a trunk show at the local yarn shop in October, (I don't have official dates so no links yet). 
I've finished hats in both Blue Jay and Robin using the Barley pattern from TinCan Knits.
Tequila Sunrise is being used to the Elijah pattern from Ysolda Teague.

Ocean waves is wound up in anticipation of being cast on for a shawl, I think.
Bonfire, (which is what I have been mentally calling it) was my special request.  It waits for me to figure out which hat and mitts I will be making for myself out of it.
And because I am a terrible glutton on multiple levels who cannot resist certain temptations, there may be four shawl knit alongs worth of yarn (and their required beads) winging their way towards me.  I know I said I would be buying no more yarn, but that was before a Vanessa Ives and Voodoo knit alongs went live.  Then there was the Hogwarts themed one I found, so of course I needed to show my Ravenclaw colors!
There is at least one other skein I will be showing off once it arrives, bought in a moment of fangirl need.
Really, that needs to be it because there are six projects to be finished the first week of October and then twenty others (an accurate number, I made a list) that I endeavor to have done by November.  Why yes, I do believe I may be a bit insane? Why do you ask?

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