I tallied my stash last night. It was scary.
In 2012 I knitted 18,448 yards.
In my language thats 10.48 MILES
The scary thing is that I currently have 51miles in my stash which, if I don't buy any new yarn, will last me 5 YEARS!!!
Pretty scary stuff.
So my goal for 2013 is to try my best to cold sheep, knit from stash and keep the wips under control. I finished the dog blanket on Sunday night so have been working away on a pair of sock which were meant to be for me, although I think I know someone who would appreciate them.
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Saturday, 29 December 2012
And so it begins...
It's been a very long time since I last updated the blog and nothing's changed.
The stash is still out of control at over 50 miles (as per yesterday afternoon)
2013 will be a wonderful year of cold sheeping, knitting challenges and general stash reduction.
At SnB today I finsihed 3 wips - a blanket square, a quickie cowl and the sleeves from a little cardigan that just needed sleeves. Not bad for one afternoon. I'm trying to get as many wips cleared up before 2013 hits as I'm starting the first challenge then.
The challenge for January is entitled "Procrastiknits" and involves knitting the items that you've been putting off - be it something you've always wanted to try, something you never had time to knit or if you've been putting off knitting for yourself.
I've had the yarn to knit Avast for nearly a year and I''ll be swatching and hopefully making a decent start on it in January.
Ideally I'd like to knit up/donate/sell at least 10 miles in 2013. I'll keep track and update the total on a monthly basis.
Until next time - I'll hopefully have another wip completed!
The stash is still out of control at over 50 miles (as per yesterday afternoon)
2013 will be a wonderful year of cold sheeping, knitting challenges and general stash reduction.
At SnB today I finsihed 3 wips - a blanket square, a quickie cowl and the sleeves from a little cardigan that just needed sleeves. Not bad for one afternoon. I'm trying to get as many wips cleared up before 2013 hits as I'm starting the first challenge then.
The challenge for January is entitled "Procrastiknits" and involves knitting the items that you've been putting off - be it something you've always wanted to try, something you never had time to knit or if you've been putting off knitting for yourself.
I've had the yarn to knit Avast for nearly a year and I''ll be swatching and hopefully making a decent start on it in January.
Ideally I'd like to knit up/donate/sell at least 10 miles in 2013. I'll keep track and update the total on a monthly basis.
Until next time - I'll hopefully have another wip completed!
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
And the winner is...
After a bit of mature reflection, I decided on what the next wip would be and even better than that i decided on a wip schedule! Sunday - Tuesday will be wip days, where there's a decent stretch of time to make a serious dent in the thing. Conveniently I finished the brown cardigan on a Sunday which fits with my lovely new plan.
Next Wip on the block is a Paxton cardigan in fern green Stylecraft Life. For some reason I seem to have gotten fed up of this a few cm from finishing the body! At this minute in time I've the 4 boarder rows to knit, the cast off and then to start on the two sleeves which don't take very long at all.
I'm actually enjoying the whole wipdown thing. Getting that brown cardigan (I have to stop calling it that, its a very nice, warm and snug cardigan knitted in Sirdars Big Softie) finished was a relief and its just unfortunate its the wrong season for wearing it (we are meant to be getting rained on this week though)
Maybe by the end of this month I'll be wipless.... have to get that crochet blanket sorted though, I lost the corner somewhere in it, lol.
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Oh my goodness!
After languishing in a bag, half done since November 2010, the cardigan that was meant to be my mums christmas present is finally done.
So here's the question, what wip do I work on now? I have socks in progress, a baby shrug, a crocheted blanket and a baby cardigan. Im thinking the socks... but also the baby shrug because its also been sitting for months, maybe a year, not worked on!! I'll have to have a think.
So here's the question, what wip do I work on now? I have socks in progress, a baby shrug, a crocheted blanket and a baby cardigan. Im thinking the socks... but also the baby shrug because its also been sitting for months, maybe a year, not worked on!! I'll have to have a think.
Saturday, 16 April 2011
finally
these socks have been on the go since February and I got them finished last night. since I'm working on my wips this month, its time to drag another out of the box and get cracking.
This is the third wip that I've finished so i'm nearly half way there... the rest are cardigans of various sizes though so could take a while. Still, I've 2 weeks to make some progress.
This is the third wip that I've finished so i'm nearly half way there... the rest are cardigans of various sizes though so could take a while. Still, I've 2 weeks to make some progress.
Monday, 4 April 2011
blanket bunny mark 2
this is the first things I've finished in ages!!! I did one of these before but when I showed it to a girl in work she said it should have had a face... so I knitted one for her gandbump and spent an hour trying to do the face. Never again, lol!!!
Monday, 7 March 2011
blanket buddy
This little blanket buddy is the first thing I've finished in ages! Seems that real life is getting in the way of my knitting time... it could also be because I'm knitting many things at the same time, lol
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