There are far too many things that I want to knit in the coming year to enumerate, in fact there are far to many things I want to knit in the coming month to enumerate. As usual my dreams are far bigger than my available knitting time. At any rate, it is nice to have a new year, but I really have never gotten the point. The years move on, my life moves on, and it has never really conveniently fit in yearly increments, or if there has been a pivotal date, it does not revolve around January 1 (or my birthday for that matter). Aside from the requisite black eyed peas and greens, New Years tends to be quiet around here, although we leap at any excuse for a little champagne.
Several projects from 2005 are about to be finished:
Tesla is completed except for finishing the neckline. I do not like the bind-off using the Tesla yarn and am going to do something with a complimentary yarn, if I can find one. There is nothing in my stash that will work. Shopping is required.
The lovely green sharfik is still on the needles. It turns out G likes his scarves long. Who knew? I am determined to finish it and set it to block this afternoon. He has also informed me he would want fringe. I had guessed he would not. No problem there is enough yarn. It is nice that we can still surprise each other.
The second sock of the carnival-bright socks was started during a brief interlude when I thought I had finished the scarf. We were catching up on movies we had meant to watch but not gotten ‘round to – at that moment it was COLD MOUNTAIN. Excellent movie by the way. The scarf was still a couple of inches too short..
My mom, however has finished several things since she has been here, as well as playing with various designs and patterns:
First, she knit me this wonderful ruffled scarf, a simple thing you see around a great deal right now, but no less nice for the exposure:
The yarn is 100% virgin acrylic picked up at Michael’s. Chosen for the color.
Pattern:
cast on 100
Row 1: knit all stitches
Row 2: K1, *yo, K1* repeat to end
Repeat these two rows until you have knit a row of 1600 stitches.
Bind off.
When mom finished binding she did not cut the yarn but continued down around the sides and the original cast-on edge with single crochet. We agree that we think the scarf looks more finished this way.
Next, she knit this scarf:
The yarn might be familiar, I previously posted it Here. This was planned as a last minute gift for Caitlin, my D2SGD (DSD’s DSD) who I was expecting for Christmas. I had other gifts, but thought she might need more to open under the tree. When we were informed on Christmas Eve that she would not indeed be coming, I somehow failed to wrap this gift. After Christmas, mom knitted this up according to the directions in the kit, which I will not post, as they are a copyrighted part of a kit, even though I probably have at least 3 books with this same pattern and have seen it practically everywhere:
Yarns: Anny Blatt Victoria, Anny Blatt, Muguet, Anny Blatt Angora Super
Pattern, according to leaflet, although it is very similar to the one above except the yo’s are not knitted but are dropped on the subsequent row and a couple of extra rows of garter stitch are added for separation between the floats.
And for all of you who celebrate, HAPPY NEW YEAR!