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WIP Chat Post
Ahhhh so I have a problem -- or rather, I have eleven of them!
I currently have eleven unfinished projects on my needles. I've been trying to cut down, but every time I finish one of my current projects, or even finish half of one (one sock/mitten etc), I cast on a new project to replace the old one.
So I was hoping I could find like-minded folks to chat about WIPs. Anyone want to join me in sharing your WIPs to cheer each other on? That glove lacking a second half, that beret that just won't get past the ribbing, that scarf that just won't stop, that lacework that you've squirreled away in a bag so you're not tempted to throw it across the room, that thing you need to tink back a couple hundred stitches before you can move forward again (and if that sounds familiar, all the best of luck to you!) Or even that one project that's just flying off your needles so we can all remember that it can be done? And if that's you, I'm envious, but do share *G*
Maybe we'll even finish one of them eventually! (And maybe then I can stop fervently hoping that mismatched gloves, or gloves matched with mittens, or one-sock-only would come into style >_>)
I currently have eleven unfinished projects on my needles. I've been trying to cut down, but every time I finish one of my current projects, or even finish half of one (one sock/mitten etc), I cast on a new project to replace the old one.
So I was hoping I could find like-minded folks to chat about WIPs. Anyone want to join me in sharing your WIPs to cheer each other on? That glove lacking a second half, that beret that just won't get past the ribbing, that scarf that just won't stop, that lacework that you've squirreled away in a bag so you're not tempted to throw it across the room, that thing you need to tink back a couple hundred stitches before you can move forward again (and if that sounds familiar, all the best of luck to you!) Or even that one project that's just flying off your needles so we can all remember that it can be done? And if that's you, I'm envious, but do share *G*
Maybe we'll even finish one of them eventually! (And maybe then I can stop fervently hoping that mismatched gloves, or gloves matched with mittens, or one-sock-only would come into style >_>)
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I mean, lord almighty, Mystic Star is beautiful...but it's so complicated. Right now, my rows are 550+ stitches long and full of squiggly things to
annoyoccupy me. If I don't work on this project, I feel really guilty because it won't finish itself. But if I do work on this project, it involves a commitment of at least two hours. Which is a lot of time to sit on my ass.A number of folks (myself included, actually) have purchased a second set of our favorite needles to cast on for two socks/gloves then work on one or the other. (Okay, so I actually bought a second set of sock needles to knit my Through The Loops Mystery Socks simultaneously because they are released in small chunks, and I got tired of pulling the needles out of one cuff to knit the other one.) But I outsmart myself by doing both cuffs or both toes at once, then abandoning one while I knit the entire first sock. The guilt of having a toe or cuff is enough for me to jump on the second sock. That method, however, would not work for
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(Hit the submit button too soon. Anyway!)
Currently in progress:
• Snape's Stockings, sock 1 of 2. I'm actively working on this.
• Generic pair of toe-up socks. One's done, the other is waiting for a needle to be available.
• Cuff #1 of a generic pair of cuff-down socks. This one is actually sitting on a needle, but it's waiting for me to pick a pattern. (Long story.)
• A sock yarn scrap blanket.
• Two more blankets-in-progress.
• The previously-mentioned lap blanket.
• A sweater. I did the parts where my row gauge didn't matter (knit for x inches - that sort of thing), and then stopped when I hit the bit where I have to recalculate the rate of decreases to get the shaping right.
• Two lace shawls. I stopped knitting one when I got bored, and stopped knitting the other (a Mystic Star, funnily enough) due to lack of undivided attention.
...Oh, and a pair of felted slippers that's been waiting for ages for me to remember they exist at the same time I'm doing an appropriate load of laundry.
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I KNOW, RITE???
I have ripped and re-knit this shawl twice.
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Weaving in ends is so tedious, I sympathize! I have two projects I don't dare look at because I still need to weave in their ends properly (marked finished though ahaha) I wish you the best of luck with the ends on that blanket.
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(Sez the woman with a tumbling pile of baby blankets stacked up by the door.)
8-)
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I think all the UFOs went into the "frog and reclaim the yarn for something else" pile. One I just want to frog and restart (it's from some years ago... I'm a much better knitter now).
Meanwhile, there's still all the downstairs yarn and projects. "Active" projects include -
a scarf (which is really closer to 'hibernating' than 'active')
fingerless gloves (ditto), a shawl (made with sock yarn)
a baby blanket (strictly for knitting group. easy to knit while yammering)
and a pair of socks.
I think that's it. I'm not about to get out of the warm bed and toddle downstairs to confirm... ;)
Eleven projects, eh? What specifically have you got going?
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I also have a bunch of scarves and shawls that feel like they're going on forever, and I just want to dump them in favor of figuring out how to make tops.
The things I'm stuck on are:
* a colorwork scarf with an embedded message. It's fun but I need to sit in front of a computer to get it done, since I need to look up the color pattern
* a bias knit scarf where I swear the yarn is fighting me, and it's more punishment than pleasure to finish :-(
* the Summit shawl in a glittery black disco-ball-like yarn which I enjoy doing -- when I remember to pick it up
* a boring comfort knitting scarf for when I'm out and in line
* a pair of cablework mittens where I made two left mittens the first time by mistake. So technically it's my third mitten, not my first, and I need to make a fourth
* the Nereid Fingerless Gloves in a gorgeous yarn *_* But I haaate my second glove because my gauge is noticeably looser now than it was when I did the first glove, so I can't move forward on it
* and a secret project which I can't talk about until it's published, but I've finished the first of the pair, and can't seem to make my way up the second
I also have two projects in hibernation: one is a cap which I don't have enough yarn for, and another is a top which I don't have enough pattern for!
It was supposed to be my first big project, and I got help from someone in our LYS to convert something knit flat with seaming to something knit in the round. She converted it for me and gave me the first half of the pattern, but not the second to avoid overwhelming me. Between the time I started the project, and the time I knit to the point where I needed the second half of the pattern, she moved to a different province (eek)
The top no longer fits me, and the stitches are noticeably wonkier than I'd make them now. I really should frog it, but I can't bring myself to *G*
I'm also working on a vest for my grandpa, which is the first vest I've ever done :D this one I'm not so stuck on; it's taking a long time, but the yarn and finished product make me blissfully happy *_*
And I'm about to start on a nice slouchy hat, which I really shouldn't have done but I just finished a flat hat the other day, so I needed something to fill in that space... *G*
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Unfortunately, since I am only interested in socks, it took me a while to rip out the scarves because I didn't have another use for the yarn (rip I did, however. And I made a lot of hats and fingerless mitts.)
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I haven't been knitting long enough to develop a truly scary stash or WIP portfolio!
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1. A raglan sweater that's way too big for me. I ought to frog it and start over, but it's so disheartening, because the body is complete and I just needed to do the sleeves when I realized it was too big.
2. An orange mohair lace shawl that I screwed up the pattern for -- no way to frog this yarn back, so I just need to cut my losses (literally)
3. Another shawl that I started, hibernated, couldn't remember what size needles I was using, and then repurposed most of the yarn I was intending to use for it.
4. #1 of a pair of Dashing handwarmers - I've forgotten what size needle I was using or where I was in the pattern
5. A yoga mat bag out of nubbly cotton yarn - again, I've completely forgotten what size needles I was using and I HATE knitting with this yarn (it hurts my fingers and it feels like I have to yank every stitch to get anything like proper gauge)
And things on needles that I'll
probablyfinish eventually:1. A bear-eared hooded sweater for a niece or nephew who's due in August - mindless garter stitch knitting, but stupidly made in pieces to be constructed and now I wish I'd modified the pattern to knit it in the round
2. Sock #1 of a pair of cabled alpaca socks for my husband. The yarn is lovely to work with but OMG, so many teensy cables
3. A green Bitterroot shawl that I'm actually working on quite a bit
4. And not on needles, but a cotton washcloth that I need to weave the ends in on.
And yet, I'm contemplating casting on for a baby hat, because a. everyone I work with is pregnant and b. I don't have anything totally mindless on needles right now, and it's essential that I have something easy to pick up and put down for standing in line and other times when I don't want to have to think about a pattern (the bear sweater is close, but because it's knit in pieces, I have to be careful about making sure that everything is the right size and that my increases/decreases match up the way they should).
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I can frog unfinished stuff, but I've got a (whoops, just realized I forgot it in the below list) blanket shoved under the bed that isn't even mine, someone else started it, and it's maybe a third done, and I just can't bring myself to frog it becuase there are so many stitches into it, so I'm having to learn how to crochet to finish this thing and what am I doing? learning how to crochet. *flail*
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- A Norwegian style jacket, which I still love. But I put it down some years ago and it is snoozing in a cabinet. The body and one sleeve is done. It was just taking so long, and I had to do some quicker things so that I could finish something. Now I'm sort of afraid to pick it up again, heaven knows how my gauge has changed, and I even do stranded knitting with a different method now.
- Just started a Moebius cowl at a workshop this weekend. This will likely get finished, as it is small and quick.
- A multi-yarn pullover for myself. I expect this will get finished, as it is just plain knitting. This is a good travel project.
- A Henley-style pullover for my husband. It needs to be seamed (which I really don't mind doing) and I need to get the buttons. This was the first placket pattern I'd created using Sweater Wizard, and didn't spot that I could narrow the width of the placket. I'm afraid that it's going to look silly for a man's sweater, and so I've been not touching it. On the other hand, I got the yarn at more than 50% off at a store moving sale, so feel no guilt on that score if it doesn't get finished.
And projects of other types are demanding attention now too, further cutting down on knitting time.
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Oh mercy me, WIPs are a killer.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and the handspun Feather and Fan scarf I've been working on since 2007, don't forget that. :-P
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- a lace shawl (Industrial Revolution pattern from the Sanguine Gryphon)
- another lace shawl (Wild West pattern from Evelyn Clark)
- one sock, the first of theoretically two
- a pair of fingerless mitts
- a worsted weight scarf
- a hat
- another pair of fingerless mitts (same pattern as the first, but different color/yarn)
- a teddy bear (head and body knitted but unattached, currently limbless)
- a lace scarf
Let's not even talk about my stash or the list of patterns/projects I have lined up. >.> A couple of these are gifts, and a couple more have goal dates, so that helps. I really want to finish the Industrial Revolution shawl by July so I can wear it with a Steampunk costume at a con I'm going to, so I'm motivated to keep plugging away at it. Those socks, though... Those will probably languish quite a while longer.
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There's stuff that requires thought:
the dragon scarf for mom that I'm kit bashing, so I need to draw, then knit, then wing and so I'm really just putting it off until after baseball season and I can focus on it and nothing else. Yeah, I'm thinking after retirement. I've got the tongue done, though. 8-)
Stuff that requires finishing:
I've had items sit for months waiting for nothing more than seams or weaving in ends or a flipping button. I'm caught up right now, though. Oh, wait, no I'm not. I've got another half dozen loose snakes to stitch to the medusa jacket. But that doens't really count, because the mother of said toddler isn't interested in it anyway, so it's a project with no use.
Stuff that requires starting:
I picked up Lorna's laces for the boo socks last summer. Sometimes I run across the printout of the pattern. Sometimes I run across the yarn. I never seem to actually have yarn, empty needles and pattern in the same place at the same time.
My M-I-L wants a plain simple shrug. Or at least she did a year ago. Plain, simple, boring shrug. I've got three possible patterns for it queued on Rav, and may just hit Coldwater Creek and buy her one.
A friend asked if he could pay me to make a pair of socks for him. I've often said that given the sheer number of hours I put into each item (sloooooooow knitter) anything I make is too expensive to sell, so I have to give it away, but this particular friend wants just plain socks in green wool. He asked very nicely. He's 6'6", 350 pounds (played offensive lineman for SMU, yes), has calves about the size of my son's waist, and wears a size sixteen (US man's) shoe. He asked very very nicely. There will be an afghan's worth of stitches in these socks, but I'll do them. I'm thinking DK weight, though, and not fingering.
My husband wants a hat. A specific hat. I have the pattern, the needles, and have such a tight idea of what I want to do for this hat that I'm not able to find yarn that matches the yarn in my head. But I will. In the meantime, while looking for this yarn, I'm finding such wonderful yarn that isn't suited for the hat, that my stash closet has filled up and now yarn is curling up under the bed and behind books on the shelf and nestling in amidst my shoes.
New-to-me-process:
the blue socks were my first sucessful (fifth total) cast on for two-at-a-time. I finished the second successful (sixth total) cast on for two at a time while these languished, though I'm not sure why I tended to grab one over the other. Realizing that I was avoiding them because of my irritation at fighting with the circulars, I moved one sock to dpns and it's now my baseball practice sock, so I'm now at the cuff on it and will do the same with the other. They are socks for me, so a bit of sloppiness just under the heel (where the second is still on the circular - I made a stab at Magic Loop and um...well...stab is the operative word. Stabbity stabitty stab. I'm missing something really obvious, I think).
Stuff that is portable and therfore gets finished:
Socks! These go through a wip period, but don't tend to stay there. I'm finishing the toe on one sock now and checking Rav, I went from cast on to wearing of the Queen of Cups sock from Knitty in a month and a week, which for me (slooooooow knitter) is blazingly fast.
Stuff that isn't portable and takes forever to do in twenty minutes breaks:
The leaf pattern in fall colors scarf for the kid that the needles are too long to fit in my purse or it'd be done already. But I can only work on it at home, so it's creeping along, because I don't knit at home. I knit at doctor's offices or at games.
I'm ruthless about frogging, though, so I don't keep a lot of stuff on needles but not active. As opposed to cross stitch where a needle can get shoved into the fabric and left to rust, or my loom which gathers dust while I'm out of the house or on the couch with a baby blanket on the needles.
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My current primary WIP is a Cookie A pattern from Sock Innovation that I'm doing in an acrylic/nylon blend (Berroco Comfort Sock). I love the pattern but it is SO complicated and the stitches are SO tiny that it requires my full concentration and frequent breaks. I just turned the heel on the first sock after casting on a year ago this week.
Since that's not terribly portable due to the complicatedness, my travel project is a raw silk wrap with a relatively simple lace pattern that is easy to pick up and put down. I also have a baby sweater in progress that the intended recipient hasn't grown into yet. :)
I have nine other projects that are on the needles but currently gathering dust, six of which are wool-based. I will swap out with one of the other three whenever I get bored of the ones I mentioned.
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But that's a rare beast, and a rebound project.
I never finish scarves. At this point, most of the scarves I've ever started have just been ripped back because honestly, it will never happen. The problems are the ones that I love anyway, or are almost done! If I would just... knit... the last... skein... (clapotis in green raw silk, I'm looking at you).
But I hate knitting flat, and I need to stop casting on flat projects.
I do like finishing things in general, though, so if it isn't flat, it's generally going to get finished. I have so many projects *planned*, though, and I want to knit socks for everyone in my current town before I leave... it's not going to happen, but I still want to.
Current WIP:
Colorwork sock (it's gorgeous navy and white in a Norwegian star pattern.)
Scrappy scarf (it will never be finished, but I do sometimes knit it when I have scraps to use.)
Clapotis scarf (I... just... *sigh*)
Entrelac scarf (I think I felt so guilty about this that I deliberately misplaced the project bag.)
Baby blanket (from 5 babies ago. My only hope is that my friends keep making small humans and at some point this thing will be done in time for the birth of one of them.)
A market bag (I ran out of yarn and can't seem to complement it with anything existing in my stash)
Shark mitts take two (I will finish these before visiting my friend in two weeks, because they are for her. Yay deadlines!)
Rebound socks (mostly boring rib, but I tossed in some cute cables down the side, and dammit, I was going to follow a pattern on those, but it didn't happen and I'm making it up as I go again.)
Socks waiting to happen:
entrelac socks to test the pattern one more time
the gorgeous orange sock yarn that I want on my feet now now now!
The party-in-a-sock yarn for my brother, who picked it out.
The sock yarn from the DW yarn swap that's wonderful reds and purples
Other stuff waiting to happen:
Awesome shetland wool brought from Scotland and enough for a cropped sweater dear God how am I going to finish something flat-ish???
Fascinating silk-mohair lace from my brother that I keep thinking about though I have no idea what to do with it, but it's so soft I just want to pet it all day. There are several thousand yards.
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Non-languishing project: I'm doing the Argus shawlette again, only making sure it comes out bigger this time, and that's coming along fairly well--the repeat is simple enough that I can do it while I watch Stargate.
But for languishing projects:
- a pair of mittens for my spouse, which I'm reluctant to pick back up because they're fiddly (they have half-fingers, and the mitten top flips back) and because I finished the first one and it turns out it would have been better to make it a touch bigger, and I donwanna make *two* more of them and redo the pattern again and everything.
- a shawl for my aunt, which is a really really easy pattern ("Simple Yet Effective Shawl") and I don't know why it's been languishing.
- a baby hat for my oldest nephew. He was probably about six months old when I told his mom I'd make him a hat, and now he's almost 3. I've been avoiding it because it's new and different in a scary way--I don't know toddler head sizes well, and I haven't found a pattern I like much, but I don't know hats well enough to improvise.
And in the category of I Will Knit This, It Will Not Defeat Me: the socks I frogged a few months ago because every single time I tried knitting them they were too wide, even after I ripped back and tried again with fewer stitches. Twice.
Oh, and my one crochet project! I was making a string shopping bag, but it's just not fun at all. I'm not sure if it's that crochet isn't for me, or if it's because I'm using cotton yarn and my fingers want something with more stretch in it.
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Actual on-the-needles WIPs:
*a pair of socks, about an inch past the heel on sock #1.
*a pair of fingerless gloves
*4 squares done on a sampler afghan (12 squares planned)
*use up all my scrap yarn/acrylics making tawashi
However, if you want to include the projects not yet started:
*my sister requested several scarves. She picked the patterns. I finished one, and still haven't sent it to her. Winter's over where she lives, but I still have at least 4 more to make.
*my husband wants another earflap hat and a vest
*both my husband and son want more socks. Lots of them.
*2 of my sisters want more dishcloths
*I just realized the niece I thought was graduating next year actually graduates this month. I have ordered yarn to make her a shawl, my first big lace project
*lots more requests by family members, plus gifts I want to make before next winter. If I had time to knit all day (I wish), this is unlikely!
I love knitting, and I love knitting for my family. But the requests are starting to come faster than I can complete anything. I would like to teach a few of them to knit so I can go back to making things for me, but so far, no one's willing. :)
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I stop knitting if the only things I have started are unpleasant or unsuited to my current mindset, so I like to have several concurrent projects.
But I certainly wish you greater happiness in your crafting, so I hope you find a way to winnow your in-progress projects list down or to increase your mental swap space devoted to knitting projects so you don't mind so much.
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No, wait, two.
No, three.
...one is a scarf that is in the OMG This Is Lasting Forever stage. It is gorgeous floofy squooshy yarn that I am totally in love with, and a pattern (yarn harlot's One Row (Handspun) Scarf) that is mindless without being super boring and therefore is good for tv knitting. But I am less than halfway through the second of three skeins.
One is a prayer shawl that I have re-done and re-redone and re-re-redone a bazillion times and really I should just accept the fact that prayer shawls are Not My Thing.
And one is a Saroyan, bulky yarn and size 13 needles, that has been shoved in a corner for quite some time now.
...as for projects that are partially done but not on needles? There is, er. An orange wedge bag that I have done the bottom and one side but not the other side or the zipper; a sock, toe-up, done on a sock loom, that needs frogging because it is too big, but had to be taken off the loom to try on; a fingerless glove that does not have a mate; and probably other things that I have forgotten about entirely.
And then there are all the things that I have planned out but not started...
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*A sweater I was making for my oldest daughter, needs sleeves and a hood. She was supposed to have it by her tenth birthday. She's now 15.
*A wee little purse (the cathedral purse pattern from Knitpicks). I've had to rip this mother and begin again five times in various stages. If it wasn't for a friend that I promised I would make it for, I would have abandoned it and made something similar.
*A bonnet for the baby-- the pig soaker and bonnet from the Knitpicks kit. All it needs is I cord and ears, and my motivation went buh-bye.
*A baby blanket I was making in this lucious linen yarn. Didn't have enough to make it to size, so I'm going to have to frog and use the yarn for something else.
*Stash buster- granny squares (this one's not a totally big deal. I actually planned on this being a WIP so I can use up yarn from the other projects and make up a blanket when I have enough squares made)
Those are the WIPs, and not the projects that I have yet to get on the needles, but I have the yarn for :P
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* A peacock lace scarf which I started 4 years ago, in my first year of knitting.
* A Sherwood cabled sweater for my son which I started 3 years ago (happily for me, the only direction he is growing is vertically)
* A pair of French Press slippers which took about 4 hours to knit, and I was done before Christmas. Ugh, the seaming is tedious.
* A lace cuff pattern I have been designing for approximately 2 years. But it involves Habu stainless steel wool. It'll be awesome.
* Versatility. Sewing on the buttons has been going on for like 2 months now.
* A pair of gloves for my sweetie, that I was going to have done for Christmas. Hah. I have swatched 4 times, and I am still not happy with the fabric.
* A Broken Rib tank that I just started a few days ago and I am tearing along on, because I want to wear it at the end of the month.
That I have the yarn earmarked for:
* Orange Pop
* An argyle hat for my husband
* A lopi sweater for my daughter
* A sweater's worth of DK alpaca
* Reverse engineering and knitting socks for my dad and his three big-footed brothers. (at least they appear to be worsted.)
Looming in the near distance:
In a fit of MADNESS, I think I told my parents I would make them both lopi sweaters for their 40th anniversary trip to the Maritimes, in August. I need to make them pick their patterns so I can do Sweater Math so I know how much yarn I need, so I can get going SOON. Because lopi sweaters are relatively fast, but my dad is 6 foot 6 and biggish, and my mom isn't smaller than I am.
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3 pairs of socks... they vary in complexity because sometimes I like to knit while I'm doing other things. All are a couple months old at most (one is 2 days old)
1 pair of gloves, which I haven't worked on recently and which is already overdue. Not feeling them.
One hat I was making up based on a Cookie A sock pattern, where the gauge is totally off, and which I therefore need to start over, but I really don't want to do that right now.
Two afghans, both projected to be huge, one I haven't worked on in 9 months and one in several years, both really should get finished soon but I'm trying to gear up for it.
Plus, a matching set of entrelac hat/scarf/gloves, which I'm making with leftover sock yarn bits, and therefore am not intending to finish soon, since I don't have enough bits yet to finish, and also I've made two granny squares with leftovers of the bits so I've technically started a sock yarn afghan too, but again not counting, it will be years until I have enough squares to have a blanket.
That's all I'm counting. There are some other things hanging around though, including 4 to 7 pairs of socks I need to finish by the fall, a shawl that will be a Christmas present, a baby afghan for a baby due on December, an afghan I've had the yarn for for years but probably need to finish about a year from now, 2 pairs of gloves I need to do before next winter... but they aren't cast on so they don't count officially yet.
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One doggie sweater - extra small - tv knitting (where I can watch and knit)
Wisteria Arbor Shawl - lunchtime and weekend knitting - tried to watch tv with this one and spent one whole 12 row repeat knitting a row, frogging a row
Azzu's Shawl - dead easy to knit but has very involved instructions considering - a chart would be nice on this one
Two totally UFO and probably never to be done - Hourglass sweater that I began two years ago and was so new to knitting didn't realize you had to mark off rows! And a pair of socks that will never be done. I like the idea of knitting socks MUCH more than the reality of knitting socks. I will conquer socks at some point but probably not this year. Once I teach myself Continental style I will revisit but as an 'English' knitter socks take too much time.
Everything I've got going is not knitting
-a crochet hook case for a friend
-a variety of embroidered projects that only need the finishing work
-crochet felted slippers for my boy
-a crochet rose for a friend
-a tatted sampler book
I'd planned a bunch of crochet projects because they are easier to pick up and put down while running computer code. The running has stopped, but the list lingers on....
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And I have half a sock, and I have to decide if it's time to start thinking about the heel or not. That one is being carried around with me, but since I do a lot of knitting in public, a lot of whipping off the shoes and sock to try on the partly-finished sock is srs hairy eyeball territory.
Aaaaand I have a bunch of things that have been sitting so long that I need at least an uninterrupted hour to re-load the state into working memory so I can have a chance of continuing. >.< There's at least a shirt and a wrap in that category. Oh, and I have a giant beaded shawl that just needs more attention and is *almost* done but other things that were time-critical came up. Oh oh AND I have a pair of fingerless mitts I've been wearing even though the parts to make them glow with LEDs came in and I wanted to mod them.
So I sympathize with your WIPs! :)