When I dusted off this space yesterday, I had a vague plan of posting something every day. I’ve done it before, a month here and there, and found it useful for sharpening my writing voice. So we’ll see where this takes me.
One of my goals for this year is to get better at documenting my knitting projects. Which is to say, documenting them at all. I currently have 4 projects actively on the needles, all for KALs on Ravelry.
1) Blathnat, a mystery sock pattern that I’m knitting as a mystery (as clues are released, not waiting til the end). Yarn: Crock O’ Dye, shades of red. So far I have both clue 1s done, and one clue 2. The next clue will be released on Sunday, so I’m still pretty ahead of schedule. Deadline Feb 29.
2) Midsummer’s Night Dream (SKA, Flora or Fauna theme) – pretty leaves on a twisting vine up the center panel of a toe-up sock. Yarn: Knit Picks Stroll kettle-dyed Eggplant. Just at the heel turn of the first sock. Deadline Feb 29.
3) A mystery shawl designed by Susanna IC. Yarn: Jojoland Melody. I think I bought this yarn in Boston in 2010. First clue finished today. Not sure when the deadline for this one is.
4) Union Jack Argyle (SKA, leftovers theme). Yarn: various shades of Knit Picks Stroll Tonal (Blue Violet for main color, then stripes of Deep Waters, Royalty, Queen Anne, and Golden Glow). Currently working on the leg of the second sock, although the first sock isn’t finished yet. I wanted to get the second one to the same point as the first so I can make sure I don’t run out of any one color too soon.
January’s theme of Flora and Fauna is really inspiring. So many sock patterns use floral patterns of some sort, and several yarns I have fit the theme as well. I just acquired a skein of Miss Babs Northumbria in shades of purples and golden greens – named Iris. How could I not get it? It hasn’t yet told me what it wants to become, though.
