WIP Chat Post

[afuna]

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 >_>)

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[ct]

Oh god, me too. I currently have... ten... projects on the needles, according to my project page on Ravelry. One of them? A lap blanket that's been waiting for two freaking years for me to finish weaving in ends and crocheting the edging. I've actually been making good progress at knitting socks lately, but my progress at finishing everything that *isn't* socks is abysmal.

(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.

[pinesandmaples]

and stopped knitting the other (a Mystic Star, funnily enough) due to lack of undivided attention.

I KNOW, RITE???

I have ripped and re-knit this shawl twice.

[ct]

I had to rip it back once, but I'd barely started so it wasn't too big a deal. Half my problem now is that I wasn't marking off the lines on the chart as I finished them, so it's going to take some time to figure out where I even need to start.

[afuna]

Oh Ravelry! So much love, and yet also so much guilt for projects piling up in progress.

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.

[jenna_thorn]

I set a project to finished even though I hadn't sewn the buttons on, then felt so wierd about it that I actually pulled out the button box and sewed on buttons, when normally I'll leave stuff at that last not-quite-finished stage for months. Just having it there on the page, looking at me....

[pinesandmaples]

I have a shawl that has been marked as 95% for close to 6 months because I finished the knitting, but I wouldn't let myself mark it as finished until I blocked it. Which is happening right now because it's a gift for a bride...who is getting married in like 4 days. Good thing I'm in the wedding party and don't have to mail the shawl.

[jenna_thorn]

See, you were being clever! If you'd blocked it six months ago, you'd have had to fold it and store it, and this way it'll be newly stretched and crisp.

(Sez the woman with a tumbling pile of baby blankets stacked up by the door.)

8-)