Socks and Yarn
My first finished object of the year! Yay! I am wearing them as I type this. I finished them Sunday night and was probably lucky to do so. I sewed quilt blocks all day Saturday (husband was gone) and we had a birthday party to go to Sunday afternoon. I didn’t take any pictures of the blocks yet. The quilt is going to be a birthday present for my husband.
I am now working on my January socks which are a discontinued yarn and colorway from Knit Picks. Sock Garden in Daffodil. Anyone remember the lovely yarn I got from my secret pal back in October? Mountain Colors Bearfoot. It is going to be my February sock project. I felt that this very special yarn needed a special pattern. The pattern is going to be Nancy Bush’s Traveling Socks from Knitting on the Road. I can’t wait to feel the Bearfoot on my feet.
Yesterday, I spent half the afternoon online looking at sweater patterns for my aunts. I now have 2 aunts enlisted, and that means 2 sweaters. I may use the same pattern for each of them. However, I managed to find 3 patterns I liked for myself. Fortunately, I am not keeping a number count of the sweaters I have been seeing that I NEED to have. I might feel ashamed if I did.
Speaking of yarn shame, I think that perhaps I really shouldn’t feel any when I look at my stash. I’ve been reading for the past couple years of people who have enough yarn in their stash for X number of sweaters. I don’t have that kind of yarn laying about here. I couldn’t make an entire adult sweater with the yarn I have. Unless it had A LOT of colors in it. It would seem that I rather NEED to do some stashing. The only thing I can make with my stash is socks and baby sweaters. It is sort of disappointing to think that I can’t go to my hampers and baskets and knit a sweater from it. Maybe I’ve done a good job of knitting what I buy over the years. I may have to punish myself with yarn this spring….
I am now working on my January socks which are a discontinued yarn and colorway from Knit Picks. Sock Garden in Daffodil. Anyone remember the lovely yarn I got from my secret pal back in October? Mountain Colors Bearfoot. It is going to be my February sock project. I felt that this very special yarn needed a special pattern. The pattern is going to be Nancy Bush’s Traveling Socks from Knitting on the Road. I can’t wait to feel the Bearfoot on my feet.
Yesterday, I spent half the afternoon online looking at sweater patterns for my aunts. I now have 2 aunts enlisted, and that means 2 sweaters. I may use the same pattern for each of them. However, I managed to find 3 patterns I liked for myself. Fortunately, I am not keeping a number count of the sweaters I have been seeing that I NEED to have. I might feel ashamed if I did.
Speaking of yarn shame, I think that perhaps I really shouldn’t feel any when I look at my stash. I’ve been reading for the past couple years of people who have enough yarn in their stash for X number of sweaters. I don’t have that kind of yarn laying about here. I couldn’t make an entire adult sweater with the yarn I have. Unless it had A LOT of colors in it. It would seem that I rather NEED to do some stashing. The only thing I can make with my stash is socks and baby sweaters. It is sort of disappointing to think that I can’t go to my hampers and baskets and knit a sweater from it. Maybe I’ve done a good job of knitting what I buy over the years. I may have to punish myself with yarn this spring….
Comments
I agree with Rebecca M, I also acquired a lot of non-project specific yarn and wish I'd been slightly more careful. Enjoy stashifying!