I may have mentioned earlier that I often have multiple projects going. It is so true. These are all knitting projects that I have been working on in just the last couple of days.
Clockwise from the upper left:
1. the sleeve for another doll sweater like this - being the third sweater knit from this pattern I stalled after knitting the body and starting the sweater. Really not much knitting to do but I was a little tired of the design.
2. a block for the barn raising afghan shown here. I found the bag of blocks and left over sock yarns when I cleaned in the sewing room and started working on these again.
3. The hem of a doll dress from a pattern in this book. I am letting the self striping, fair isle print of the yarn do the knit pattern here. I got the yarn at the thrift store (see yesterday's post). 234 stitches with a provisional cast on picot hem. Very tedious I really thought this would be a quick knit. After I finish cursing this hem row I think things will speed along.
4. Plain crew sock for D. This is the project I keep in my purse for whenever I have a spare minute to knit.
5. The swatch for the dress I'll be knitting during the olympics - the pattern picture is here.
Oh, and I just remembered the hat that I'm designing. I had a pattern worked out for the top down but am thinking about rewriting it from the bottom up.
Don't think this is all that I have on the needles though. I have some almost forgotten projects buried deep under piles of other stuff.
Remember this ? Well, I actually frogged it a few days ago. I am going to come up with a better pattern for this yarn, the gauge was just not working out and this? That Christmas tree in the background was from December 2008!! I may end up taking this one out too. I am learning that when a knitting project stalls this long that there is a reason.
I am focusing on knitting these days because my sewing room is open to the construction area upstairs and I don't want to get out fabrics and scraps and have them get dusty. My knitting projects are quite a bit easier to keep contained. Well, one at a time, they are. If I keep starting more they will be just as cluttery as a scrap quilt in progress.
There is never a dull moment around here.
