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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[jenna_thorn]

I tend to group my wips.

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.