Despite Many Whinings...

I have been working on a few things. Generally I've been a one-project-at-a-time sort of girl, but things have been slowly piling up on the 'to sew' table and I've been ignoring them. This is what's currently going on...

More than a slump

I don't feel like knitting.
Yeah. It's weird, I know.
I'm feeling a bit unsettled about it.

I finished knitting an unbiased bag which I semi-ruined by boiling it in vinegar because the colors wouldn't stop bleeding. It's now stiff and a muddy purple color. It might look fine once lined. If I recall correctly I wasn't that excited about MY unbiased bag before it was lined either.

I started working on some alpaca Dashing gloves for my boyfriend for his birthday - which was in early May. It sat there forever, and then I broke a needle - so things are at a standstill on that front as well.

So my plans are to buy some new double-points (maybe order a set on knitpicks, maybe metal so they're harder to kill) and work on a new unbiased bag with what's left of my sari silk. Hopefully I can figure out a way to set the color without ruining the fiber this time...

But yeah, I miss making stuff. I'm praying the lazy wears off soon.

New Newsboy!

I actually pulled myself out of my internet addiction long enough to work on something! Because my other newsboy hat is super-itchy I made a liner for this one. It makes the hat a little tight, but not unflatteringly so. I actually like that the liner fills it out and makes it puffier.

Hopefully Erin doesn't have a huge head, and doesn't mind that she's never going to get that bag I never told her I was making her.
As a wedding present.
Which happened last August.

Slump

Still been in a knitting dry spell as I noted in my last post - but I decided to start an easy project, because whether I feel like it or not, my sanity is adversely affected by not knitting.

I worked on this Harry Potter Scarf at an abysmal pace, and then left it sitting around unfinished for several more weeks after that. I have to say though, that I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. It's a great pattern, simple and authentic-looking.



Also - my kiwi newsboy hat was hearted in Ravelry. What?! Pride!

In the closet

I've got a new obsession that seriously detracts from my knitting time, and I'm honestly too embarrassed by it to 'fess up. I haven't even put my Christmas stuff up on ravelry yet!

I did spend enough time in the knitting headspace to decide that I was going to give up on giving that Zoe bag to my friend that got married last AUGUST and just make her a newsboy cap. The one I made from the Stitch n' Bitch book gets a lot of raves. I could even use up that chocolate brown Lamb's Pride - though I think I ought to line it with something less itchy if it's going to be a gift.

And then... ugh... I have to start worrying about making something nice for my other friend who's getting married this September. What's WITH everyone? What makes me the most sad is how we've grown apart, and while I still count her as one of my best friends I'm not even a little bit a part of her wedding. It was enough to make me mourn to the boyfriend, whom I love dearly, but perhaps not as much as my dreams of joining the peace corps, "I'll never be a bridesmaid OR a bride..."

Woes of a Spoiled Knitter

I've been feeling a little bit burnt out on knitting.
I was knitting constantly for a while to avoid doing my homework, but now I'd much rather cuddle on the couch or read a book, and have barely touched my project.

It probably doesn't help that my current project is a red hart coffee cozy, and I'm ONLY using the icky yarn because I feel guilty about being such a snob. I want it gone so desperately, but can't throw it out, so all I can do is knit with it and then fling the finished projects far from my sight- but I don't wanna, so there it sits.

I KNOW that using a tough machine washable fiber is a much better fit for this project than something I enjoy looking at and touching. And seriously, there are worse yarns than this. There were centuries where the only thing available was scratchy steel-like wool, and then the few decades of dull harvest gold plastic - this is NOT that kind of bad.

But even though I feel like a spoiled brat, I can't argue against the fact that knitting feels like a chore right now.

Finished the Jayne Hat!

After making two perfectly nice pompoms I finally got one scraggly enough to use. The boy seems to like it.