This weekend I managed to make some progress with Butterfly. I managed to finish the collar:
The finish line is near, but finishing is the one thing I hate the most. I did manage to get one sleeve sewn on however.
I’ll work on the rest, hopefully not too slowly.
I’ve finished both front pieces for Butterfly.
I can’t get over how impossibly small it looks in photos though I know once it’s blocked and seamed up it will all work out fine (I hope).
Clearly I did not worry too much about matching stripes. I briefly considered it, but it turns out I’m not that obsessive compulsive.
I’ve barely had time to knit, but I am plugging away at the NaKniSweMo sweater.
Of course, the commitment is hitting me hard right now–as soon as I realized I was going to be knitting nothing but Butterfly for November, at least until I finished, I was suddenly gripped by the desire to cast on for other things. Yes, Butterfly is beautiful, and I’m happy with it–but there are other patterns out there. There are shawls! Socks! Hats! Other sweaters! Armwarmers that aren’t so long that I can’t type in my refrigerator-like new office!
But I will stick with Butterfly. For now anyway.
And hope that the knitting commitment issues aren’t reflective of commitment issues in other areas of my life.
I’m making great progress so far.
I’ve finished the back of Butterfly already, and cast on for the left front.
Hopefully I can keep up this pace.
It’s November again (already?!?), which apparently means its time for the Internets to go all crazy.
I’ve tried NaNoWriMo twice and failed both times–so this year I’m going for something new. This year, I’m doing NaKniSweMo!
I’ll be knitting Butterfly, in Noro Kureyon in colroway 148. I’ve been longing to make this sweater for years, and now that I can afford the yarn (Kinda. Sorta. Maybe. If I don’t look too closely at my bank balance.) I’m finally going to.
I’m also thinking of doing NaBloPoMo, and attempting to blog every day–I’ve been more consistent about blogging, but it can’t hurt.
Must go–time to cast on!
Some days I feel like Dory–just keep knitting, just keep knitting.
I’ve been teased (slightly) for the sock which is always at the ready in my bag, but some days knitting on the commute is the only way I hang on to my sanity. It’s a very zen-like thing for me, and I could use that, especially with my parents getting into town on Friday, and my apartment not anything near what they consider habitable.
I finished the sleeves for Cherie Amour and blocked it, but completely forgot to take pictures. The next step is sewing the sleeves in–my least favorite part, though at least I’ve already woven in all my ends.
I also ordered the yarn for Butterfly online. The LYS I went to only has 10 balls of any color of Noro, and I need 11. Since I wasn’t interested in a substitution–I waited until I could afford Kureyon to make this sweater, damn it, I’m making it with Kureyon–and they didn’t seem interested in working with me to get the right number of skeins in one dyelot, I went online.
Tubey is inching along, but looks super cute so far.
The commuter sock is already past the gusset increases, and I’m working on the foot. Hooray!
Baudelaire has been woefully ignored since I cast on. I just haven’t had the time to really focus on it, and it’s my first toe-up sock, so I really need to focus.
I’m not casting on for anything else until these are finished. I swear.
So, I’ve had a pretty bad week. I’m not going to go into it here, but let’s just say it sucked. A lot.
Fortunately for me, a new yarn store just opened up near me. So I decided to check it out and buy myself some yarn.
I’m still committed to de-stashing (No, really, I am) but I thought maybe some nice sock yarn would help cheer me up.
Sadly, they don’t have much in the way of sock yarn, and it’s in the muted plain color variety rather than the bright and pretty kind. So..no sock yarn.
But they have Noro.
I’ve avoided Noro up until now. I made a pair of wristwarmers from Kureyon, but that’s it. Kureyon? Pretty, but not in a college student budget. So, since I am now someone with a Real Job, I figured I would splurge on a book and yarn.
I’ve been eyeing Butterfly for sometime now, and that happened to be the Noro book she had in stock. So I merrily bought the book and some yarn in the new 214 colorway, which on the outside was full of lovely rust, Autumn colors (Since I have been accused of–or at least questioned about–only knitting sweaters in one color family.) and trotted home.
As I was working up the first skein, I quickly realized two things. 1) I had misread and underestimated my yarn by half, and 2) there was a bit of green, pink, and blue hidden in the middle of the skein that I didn’t particularly love.
After much debating, I think I’m going to return the remaining skeins and exchange them for another colorway I had been considering (if she has enough in stock) or just return them and order online, if I need to. I can’t return the half knitted skein, naturally, so I think I’ll make the Kureyon Kozy from Knitty.
So, not a complete disaster, but I do feel kind of dumb.