Thank you all for you wonderful comments about the Swedish Cardi, and your answers… we knitters are a predictable bunch – more yarn, more projects, more happy!
I realized today (after casting on another scarf) that I never got around to taking pictures of the last scarf!
Alpaca lace scarf, knit for my mom for Mother’s Day.
Pattern is Tiennie’s Old Shale Scarf, one repeat narrower.
Yarn is kinda special… The fleece came from an alpaca named Franchesca, I dyed, carded, and spun 30 gms into a 2 ply laceweight to knit this little scarf. Franchesca’s micron count for this fleece is 18.8, this stuff makes the Super Kid/Silk feel like sandpaper. Swoon…
And the deliciously soft, but comparatively sandpaper-y, SuperKid/Silk Springscape. It’s coming along nicely, as long as there is enough quiet to concentrate on the charts. If the kids are around (always) and distracting me (always, they’re kids!) I can be distinctly short-tempered with both my knitting and them.
So I cast on something else, of course!
The Swiss Cheese Scarf, unstretched.
Honestly, this will probably never get finished. And if it does get finished, would anyone actually use it?
But it makes me laugh, it makes other people laugh, it’s brainless, and completely charming. Winner!
What do you do when your WIPs don’t suit your lifestyle? Do you steer around unsuitable projects?
They go onto the back burner. Of course, nearly all my life is on the back burner right now… except the modified Wallis Cardi… yay for being nearly done with the back! Then it’s just the fronts and finishing! (lawl at sewing up with a VERY fussy baby…)
Drooooooool. I’m a scarf FREAK. I adore the one you knit for your mom, and the pink lacey looking one you started! I love that air-y style. The pattern is gorgeous.
if i don’t like a project i rip. i hardly ever have more than one project going. i am faithful to my knits to an almost ridiculous extent. a controle freak in that area of my life.
i love the swiss cheese scarf. the lady at my lys knit up several and i actually tthink they are a great accessory.
i love our mum’s shawl too. great gift.
and i love the seascape scarf and i know the colour first hand which is less candy floss than the picture actually shows on my monitor.
I need some serious concentration time with a lace project I’m trying to finish, but by the end of the day when the kids are sleeping, I’m fried. So right now it’s just keeping me frustrated.
I try to have a sock on the go at all times, because that’s all I can manage sometimes.
I usually have several types of projects OTN. I definitely have to have something easy to work on while the kids are awake. And I’m discovering that washcloths are good park knitting. Now that the kids don’t need me as much, I can knit while they run and play.
Your scarves are all beautiful!!
Is that first scarf made of Alpaca wool? Fantastic!
Swoon indeed – to all of it!