I have definitely dug myself into a big hole with all of my WIPs. It’s a somewhat comfortable hole since I am sitting on a pile of knitting but I’m overwhelmed and discouraged.
It’s was a bad sign when I had to take the needle tips off of this project to knit something else. This is a Family Crew Neck for my grandson. Part of my procrastinating is that I’m not at all sure what to do with the sleeves. I have a second ball of this yarn for the sleeves but I’m wondering how to do the stripes on the sleeves so that they sort of match the body. Some more thinking is needed.
I grabbed the needles from that project to do an Any Gauge Raglan Pullover because I’m running a class right now and thought I should knit along with my students. I encouraged them to knit with worsted weight yarn or chunky yarn so they could get their pullovers done over the 6 weeks. I, of course, am knitting mine in fingering weight yarn. I feel like I am knitting furiously and getting nowhere. Sigh, I know. What was I thinking?!
Then there is the blog which you have been reading. I have wanted a Family Crew Neck for some time. I will be getting back to that soon. I have so much more to tell you about getting a good fit with your raglan.
You would think that three sweaters is enough to keep me busy. Then I cast on a hat. I knit the whole hat on the wrong size needle, ran out of yarn, pulled it out and am now on the redo with the correct needle. Not much more to say about that!
Am I finished? Apparently not.
For the month of February I am teaching a sock class. My first time sock students are knitting boot socks in worsted weight yarn. They will have a pair of socks done by the end of the month. I will, maybe, have one sock done past the heel with my sock yarn.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN??? I hope you are in better control of your knitting. Cheers, Deb
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Hi Deb,
Your grandson’s sweater is beautiful, love the colours. I get together with a bunch of knitters every Thursday at our LYS. You are not alone lol,
the biggest percentage of us have multiple projects on the go. I just buy new tips & cords if I need a certain size to start a new project. The rotation of projects keeps things interesting and they’ll all eventually get done.
Peg
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What Peg said. Its the rotation to keep things interesting. Maybe you need a new category of WIP’s called the Time -Out room. Projects consigned there will be Not Worthy Of Guilt.
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That’s an excellent name for the time-out corner. I like that.
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You are all my people. I usually have a couple. This just seems like too many right now.
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They’ll all be patient and wait for you to be ready to finish – knitting is good that way.
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You’re right. They aren’t complaining yet.
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Welcome to the Real World! I have a bin full of WIPs . . . . . . it doesn’t help that I was in hospital & had to move two days after I got out & someone else packed for me. It’s taken three years to get some of it organized – I even
forgot how to turn a sock heel – & of course, the first bin I opened had sock yarn!! AND the second, WIPs.
Why worry about sleeves in the sweaters you’ve started for yourself??? Spring’s not far away & you seem to love your vests. Is it necessary to make them long sleeved???
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You’re right. I am considering short or 3/4 length sleeves. Good idea. I also recently moved. Still not organized either.
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Matching sleeve stripes to body stripes can be a real PITA in top-down raglans. However, if you’re not obsessed with precise, row-by-row matches, here’s a quick’n’dirty substitution. Suppose you have a gradient yarn that moves from blue to grey to cream, and you are at the blue section when you separate for the sleeves. Reel out the rest of the blue and snip it at some point when it’s transitioning to grey. Measure or weigh half the remaining blue for the body, then split the rest in half, one for each sleeve. Repeat for each color change.
IF you have extra full skeins, you can do the row-by-row count. In the above case, you’d work the rest of the body,
noting the number of rows in each color block, then break open a new skein and work the sleeves (one at a time) matching the row counts and forcing the color changes to match by snipping the yarn. (Ugh! Lots of fiddling, lots of joins, and lots of odd-length strands left over for a hat. Or something.)
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Yes, I agree it’s a pain. I think i will be doing the stripe, snip, stripe, snip method.
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WIPs … I can relate … In addition to knitting, I also crochet, cross stitch, sew and do machine embroidery. I suddenly realized in January I will never “catch up” because there will always be some new project that catches my eye or someone who will ask me for socks. And I hope it never stops!
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Yikes. That’s a lot on the go. I agree, there is no catching up. I already have my next sweater picked out.
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