What's on your needles?

[pinesandmaples]

So what projects are getting your attention these days? (And I'm not talking about those shoved-in-the-back-of-your-knitting-bag-haven't-seen-the-light-of-day-in-months projects!)

The most active of my projects is this one...

Pattern: Wavy from Knitty
Yarn: Creatively Dyed Merino Twine (not on the website yet) in Jute
Thoughts: I'm really worried that this scarf is ugly because of the striping. Now, granted, that picture is lighter than the actual scarf which makes the striping more stark...but still. This is a gift for a friend moving to Prince Edward Island, CA, for vet school. I hope it's lovely and warm.

I'm also working on these socks, off and on...

Pattern: My own vanilla sock pattern, cobbled together to fit my feet.
Yarn: Spunky Eclectic Super Sport in Mud Season
Thoughts: I want to finish these SOON! I'm so tired of knitting them, and I'm ready to wear them!

Everything else I'm doing has been put on hold to power through that scarf. When I finish it, I'll go back to my sweater and my lace.

Comments

[mu]

beautiful yarns! :D

Right now I have two pairs of socks on the needles; one somewhat mindless one for the bus, and a more complicated one for home.

Bus socks: Dead Simple Lace Socks from WendyKnits' Socks from the Toe Up
Home socks: On-Hold Socks from the same book :)

I'm also knitting a cotton market bag -- big needles make lace go so fast!

[laughingrat]

I think that scarf is great! The socks are really pretty too.

I actually recently dug out a shawl that I had put down and ignored for over a year, the Triangles within Triangles shawl, and got back to working on the edging. I'm super close to being done at last.

[minxy]

Actually, that scarf is really awesome with your hair. And the striping on the socks is also cool.

I just finished two pairs of socks, one for my boyfriend (boot socks, up to the knee) and a pair for me that I knit two-at-a-time and switched toe and heel colors for.

Now I've just started a blanket, in tan and cream tones, but I expect to work a sweater at some point during breaks.

I just moved to a new town, so I have lots of time to knit! *g*

[thistleingrey]

The socks look lovely!

I'm 95% finished with one pair of socks--my first ever--and about 25% through a second pair. Oops.

[phoenix4]

I like the colors in the scarf. Unfortunately I've had handpainted yarn do strange pooling things to me too; this isn't bad at all. It is annoying though when the prettiest skein of yarn doesn't measure up once you knit it.

Im knitting dishcloths. The plain, bias garter stitch cotton kind. I think all my knitting brainpower goes toward working on the Aeolian shawl from Knitty while at Starbucks on Saturdays; I'm up to the edging setup chart. I can't do the beads and read blogs, so I need the dishcloths until I'm ready to start another pair of plain socks.

Last weekend I cleaned up my office/craft room and unearthed a mostly-complete cardigan. Since then I've woven in all the ends but two, reknit the wonky collar, and picked up for the button band. I may actually finish it in time to wear it this winter.

[labellementeuse]

I think the sock colourway is gorgeous! yum yum.

I'm madly busy at the moment and stuggling to find time to knit, so I'm just working away at a candleflame shawl as a gift for a friend. It's quite pretty although there's something graceless about the whole "cast on three st at the end of the row" thing. I'm also wondering about knitting on an edging and then getting nervous at the very idea. What I really want to be knitting is a sweater, but I just don't have the time or energy to knit something so big right now.

[cesy]

I'm in the middle of a baby's hat which I haven't actually done anything on for a while.

[saekhwa]

Fingerless gloves, which are only 15 rows from being complete. w00t!

And a skirt that I think I'm just going to rip and abandon.

[alsatia]

But the shoved-in-the-back-of-your-knitting-bag-haven't-seen-the-light-of-day-in-months projects are what has my attention lately!

It was making me uncomfortable to scroll so far down my Ravelry projects page before finding anything that's finished, and I finally got motivated to finish things that I'd abandoned.

I seamed the One-Piece Baby Kimono from Mason-Dixon Knitting and assembled a crocheted frog from a free pattern sheet. I crocheted the top edge and straps of a string bag I was improvising (long hibernation due to running out of yarn, the dye lots in stores sucking, and me forgetting how to do the stitch pattern). I finished a shrug for my mom that is a highly modified form of Knitty's Bobblicious.

Now I'm halfway through a headband-sized version of Garter Stitch Loop-Through Scarf from 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders made with the leftover yarn from my scarf-sized version of the same pattern. I've also got Lucia Tedesco's New England Stole nearly done, and just need to rip out a few rows of the straight portion and do the ending decrease rows (I counted wrong and thought I could do one more repeat without running out of yarn).

[aunty_marion]

Well, I'm working on and off at the first of a pair of Express Lane socks using Wendy's Happy (bamboo mix yarn) in the Scorpio colourway. I cast it on in, er, February! I was making mini-sock-keyrings for about four months, though.

I'm trying to finish a Death-of-Rats doll, which actually involves very little knitting, just macrame and sewing-up.

My brain-not-needed knitting is A Recipe for Fish - I've learnt the pattern so I can almost knit them without thinking. Very useful for taking on the bus (etc), too.

[dream]

I tend to shove all knitting aside during the hot months. I did grab a simple garter stitch scarf out of the bag, frogged it and started over on US19 needles. I needed something fast to give me completion.

[reginagiraffe]

I only started knitting less than a month ago. I'm knitting a tank top in stockinette with a knit/purl stripe pattern down the middle. I'm not using a pattern so it's going to be a bit seat-of-my-pants. We'll see what happens once I get to the armholes and neckline...