I was inspired by the Spinning Fishwife‘s UFO Sighting blogpost, so here’s my rundown.
The Heartland Shawl knit in Shetland wool from sheep which were raised by my family and handspun by my step-mom (how’s that for sourcing your fiber?). I frogged this F***er twice, and ended up coming back to the same lifeline too many times for the yarn to handle. Right now it’s in time out until I get more lace knitting under my belt. I really want to make something worthy of being an heirloom. Someday I want to bore WeeSprite’s kids by telling them that this shawl started out as sheep in my back yard, when I was a dumb kid and didn’t know how cool it was and how much I would want sheep when I was 25. (Or maybe alpaca, but I digress)
Traveling Woman knit in Plain & Fancy sportweight (ravelry link). This is what I decided to make to get better at lace. Mom made two of these (and won a ribbon for one) and suddenly everyone from Knit Night was at the P & F booth at the Estes Wool Market. She’s such a pusher.
I love this pattern, and I think the only reason I’ve slacked off on it is because I don’t have the same abundance of knitting time as I had when WeeSprite was napping half the day away. I want to finish this one once Giftmas knitting is finished.
These are the Sugar Maple socks from 2-at-a-Time Socks knit in Berroco Comfort Sock. I love the yarn, I love the concept of knitting two socks at a time, I hated this pattern. I don’t know if I missed some key part of the errata (there’s a lot of it), or if I was just too dumb, but when it came time to pick up stitches for the gusset, everything fell apart. I pulled the needle out of it when I desperately wanted my Addi Turbo for something else, so this is headed for the frog pond.
Anarchist (Rav link) from Pretty in Punk knit in Lamb’s Pride. I only have to finish the strap, chain crochet the pieces together, and felt this thing. My only defense is the strap is booooooooring. I should suck it up and finish this.
To Dye For (rav link again) from Stitch n Bitch knit with Textiles a Mano mohair. This was my first major knitting project. I started it in 2007. The front and back pieces are finished, and all I have to do is sew them together and knit the sleeves. I have been scared to do so because (1) I never checked gauge, (2) it took so long (and it’s been so long) that my gauge may have probably has changed between pieces, and will be different again whenever I do the sleeves (3) I’m not as small as I was back then. My solution is to ignore it until I lose weight, then check the gauge on both pieces and see what happens.
That’s it! My entire UnFinished Object pile. I’m sure I’ll finish them all (except the sweater) as soon as I’m done with Christmas knitting. Stop laughing. And don’t look at my queue! Shoo shoo!
I’m so jealous that you have family-raised and spun yarn to play with. Lace knitting will come. You’d be surprised b how quickly it writes itself in your brain.