Wednesday, June 06, 2007

A couple weeks back, Jennifer posted about all of her various unfinished projects, and her goal to complete five before she began something new.

Now, I don't have quite as many as she had, but I'm to the point where I have a lot of projects I'm working on, but also a few projects that have got bunged to the bottom of a bag or a box and temporarily forgotten.

One thing I'm enjoying about this summer so far is that I have a decent amount of time (like an hour, sometimes more) free time in an evening to work. NO EVENING MEETINGS.

So I have pulled out - and plan to continue to pull out - some of the bunged-to-the-bottom-of-the-bag projects and work on them, maybe even finish them.

monet1

This is a scarf out of Morehouse Farm's wonderful Monet colors merino laceweight. It has a little lace (just simple yo, k2tog every third row for 60 rows) at each end and plain garter in the middle.

I know some people aren't that fond of Morehouse yarn - it is a very "wabi sabi" yarn and it does have thick and thin places and sometimes you find a bit of vegetation in it - but I like it. It feels "real" to me.

This is also one of those yarns that blocks up in a lovely way. I made the "Verona shawl" (just a simple stockinette stitch rectangle) out of some grey-green laceweight Morehouse, and it just got the nicest texture after blocking - softer, and yet it still had a certain body to it. And the stitches even out nicely.

I had forgotten how much I enjoy knitting with it. (I also have a kit for the Contessa shawl in my stash; periodically I look at it and think I should wind off the yarn and start it.)

monet2

There's also a certain pleasure, when you're kind of tired, in just knitting either plain garter (as here) or plain stockinette - you don't really have to think much, you don't have to worry about the complex ballet of yarn overs and decreases or the in and out of the cable needle - you can just knit and go.

I knit nearly 50 rows on the scarf last night; you're supposed to knit to 340 rows before the next block of lace (I'm on about row 250; if the scarf doesn't look long enough and it seems I'll have enough yarn, I'm going to keep going on plain garter past 340 and just do the lace when the scarf is "big enough" or when I fear I'm running down on yarn. I'd actually rather make a bigger scarf that uses up all the yarn than have odd bits and bobs of laceweight kicking around).

junelandscape

And this is a picture of the Landscape Shawl being knit of Koigu. I'm a bit further than I was in the last picture I posted; I'm up to the seed-stitch section of the shawl.

I have other partially-finished projects, ranging from "active" status (just worked on them recently) to long-stall:

the Waving Lace socks
the Kenobi jacket
the Greek pullover
the baby dragon crochet
the Miranda socks
the Landscape shawl
a scarf I started out of some turquoise Cascade 220 I bought when I was up visiting my folks
the crocheted blanket
the Monet scarf (pulled out of stall just last night)

In-stall, but perhaps to be pulled out soon:

Bloom from Knitty (I don't know why I don't pull this out and finish it; it's a fast knit)
Samus (Yes, I have that buried somewhere. Never finished the bottom band and also am a bit spooked at the thought of picking up allllllll those stitches).

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