October Update

I could have sworn I'd have more of a decrease than I did. I did buy some yarn for holiday gifts and haven't quite finished some high-yardage projects. Must. Knit. More. (and not buy more)



I've purchased 7.8 miles of yarn this year. I've used 7.4 miles of yarn this year. Just keep knitting, just keep knitting, knitting, knitting...

WIP it good

I seem to be overrun with WIPs. Again. Nearly half of them just need that extra bit of finishing, but I keep being close enough with another project that I want to wait and wash/block them all at once. Which means it will now take an entire week to get through the pile of things to wash/block and finish. Oops.

Current projects:

Simplicity Cardigan. Molly over at Deep Blue Renegade started a KAL kind of a while back. I've had this cardigan near the top of my queue for over a year (and the yarn for at least six); time to actually buy the pattern and get knitting!

Magnus. This is a Christmas sweater for my nephew. I've made a sweater for him for every Christmas so far (I think), so of course he's getting one this year! I'm wondering if the size will be okay, it seems a mite small to me but I haven't seen him in a long, long time (Thanksgiving? maybe?) so I'm going to trust the pattern. His new sister is getting a cardigan for Christmas, and that's sitting over in the almost-finished pile, it just needs buttons sewn on.

Long Socks. (Yes, you've seen that picture before. They haven't really progressed, so I haven't really needed to take another picture. The biggest difference now is that the cats ate the blue-green needle holders. Buttheads.) These have been WIPs for most of the year, and if I want to finish everything I've started in 2013, they must be done! Also, I need the needles for some gift socks I'm planning and I know that if I take the needles out these socks will languish for years. The gauge is a bit tighter than is really comfortable and I don't love the color, so they're not exactly a knit that excites me. I'll certainly wear them when they're done, I just need to get that far!

Those are the main projects right now. I have a few Christmas presents and baby shower gifts I'm itching to work on and a short sleeve Green Gable for me I've been wanting to make, but for the moment, it's just those three. Now that I've listed the ones I plan to make soon, of course I want to start all of them right now - luckily (?) most of the necessary needles are in use so I can't go casting on willy-nilly. Yet.

New Ink

I changed the ink in one of my fountain pens and was enthralled by the designs the old ink made in the water as I was cleaning out the pen. So enthralled that I took a picture and am blogging it:

I still think about you, o blogoverse, I just don't often do anything about it!

Slow Month

I finished almost a mile of projects, but purchased 1/3 mile in yarn. I have some posts in draft form, but no pictures, so no posts. I've been busy. Two monthly yarn roundup posts in a row - I should post more!



Instead, I'm going to go read some more papers and continue knitting.