Ok I think the theme of the past month or so has been of utter manic energy, and not necessarily achieving much. That is certainly how it feels. Either way having got a couple of events out of the way, and with a whole pile of deadlines coming up I decided that now was a good time to clear the decks and create a bit of a work plan, whilst making sure I don't stress myself out too badly.
First up the wip list has been thinned out a bit. A couple of those projects were sitting there with no hope of me actually getting on with them. The Zauerball socks for instance are blatantly getting frogged, and the Poppy Shawl, whilst not as finished as I want, is bound off and wearable. I also went for a couple of easy finishes to get things out of the way and space freed up at home. A couple of nights spent spinning and the Herdwick is done for now... not sure I'm there on yardage but its enough to be getting on with. Lama's socks have also come to a very pleasant end. For a pattern that I didn't overly enjoy knitting and which looked decidedly wonky as a wip on the needles they look really good when on (well I think so anyway :D )
So that's me down to four projects actually on needles at the moment ( I might have cast on the Herdwick bag in a moment of weakness last night). Next up was deciding in what order to get stuff done! My commuter projects was going to be Lama's socks but they're now off the needles. Looks like I might be hoping for enough space on the train to spin up the yarn to finish off the other socks and/or try getting Mum's shawl in my bag... hmm watch this space. The plan then is to get Mum's shawl done on the train leaving my evenings a bit freer to work on the stupidly complicated In Dreams when I'm at home.
With the amount of knitting I've been doing recently though I definitely need a spin project to keep me sane. There is, contrary to popular belief (and for goodness sake don't let my DH hear me say this), such a thing as too much knitting. I pretty much topped out my knitting ability at the end of last week with the rush to get the Poppy Shawl done. The better end of two weeks knitting on trains, on buses, before work, after work, and it felt like in my sleep... oh and of almost all of that being stst was not the fast way to feed my knitting mojo. So a spin project is definitely needed. I've got two spindle projects at the moment which are good for commuting, and I think I'll make a start on the latest instalment from Yarnscape's Year of the Wheel club. I'm going to shoot for a wheel spun 3ply sock yarn to then knit into the utterly delightful Twisted Flowers socks by Cookie A.
Should keep me out of trouble for a while anyway!
First up the wip list has been thinned out a bit. A couple of those projects were sitting there with no hope of me actually getting on with them. The Zauerball socks for instance are blatantly getting frogged, and the Poppy Shawl, whilst not as finished as I want, is bound off and wearable. I also went for a couple of easy finishes to get things out of the way and space freed up at home. A couple of nights spent spinning and the Herdwick is done for now... not sure I'm there on yardage but its enough to be getting on with. Lama's socks have also come to a very pleasant end. For a pattern that I didn't overly enjoy knitting and which looked decidedly wonky as a wip on the needles they look really good when on (well I think so anyway :D )
So that's me down to four projects actually on needles at the moment ( I might have cast on the Herdwick bag in a moment of weakness last night). Next up was deciding in what order to get stuff done! My commuter projects was going to be Lama's socks but they're now off the needles. Looks like I might be hoping for enough space on the train to spin up the yarn to finish off the other socks and/or try getting Mum's shawl in my bag... hmm watch this space. The plan then is to get Mum's shawl done on the train leaving my evenings a bit freer to work on the stupidly complicated In Dreams when I'm at home.
With the amount of knitting I've been doing recently though I definitely need a spin project to keep me sane. There is, contrary to popular belief (and for goodness sake don't let my DH hear me say this), such a thing as too much knitting. I pretty much topped out my knitting ability at the end of last week with the rush to get the Poppy Shawl done. The better end of two weeks knitting on trains, on buses, before work, after work, and it felt like in my sleep... oh and of almost all of that being stst was not the fast way to feed my knitting mojo. So a spin project is definitely needed. I've got two spindle projects at the moment which are good for commuting, and I think I'll make a start on the latest instalment from Yarnscape's Year of the Wheel club. I'm going to shoot for a wheel spun 3ply sock yarn to then knit into the utterly delightful Twisted Flowers socks by Cookie A.
Should keep me out of trouble for a while anyway!
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