I have been experimenting. Lately a lot of things I have thought about doing have finally happened. I think I am knitting with the 3rd new yarn I haven’t knit with in a month. Heck, all three have been pulled from my stash. I have found some yarns I really like and others where I am “meh” ( Which for me means it will do in a pinch, but I have things I would rather knit with in my stash)

I knit a Striped Esjan by Stephen West  which I have been wanting to knit for a while( Totally out of my comfort zone on color choice and pattern, but since I got some positive feedback I  think I might have to try pushing my comfort zone again(still not totally sure I love the finished object)) and finished some Burning Leaves Mitts by the Plucky Knitter Design Team. Today I cast of for some Tinsel Mitts for my daughter. I don’t  know if it is mother’s guilt or the fact that our furnace broke this past week but I am thinking she needs something to keep her hands warm.

As is the challenge with every knitter I want to “knit all the things.” I need to finish my Bartlett and am plugging away on my Cashmere Ombre Wrap.  So I was a little supposed when the idea to knit a little Christmas themed diorama popped into to my head. I can’t get if out of my head. It’s stuck in there like a cheesey 80’s song. I need to finish the sweater and make some further progress on my wrap ( 50% complete!)

Acquisitions:

Too many. I think I need to update this at a later date

 

Work In Progress:

Tinsel Mitts by Andrea Mowery

Cashmere Ombre Wrap by Purl Soho

Bartlett By Michele Wang

 

Completed:

Burning Leaves by the Plucky Knitter Design Team

Striped Eshan by Stephen West

 

I met up with a friend and had a chance to browse the local fiber festival in Ballard ( neighborhood in Seattle) this weekend.

I didn’t go nuts but I did find some goodies.

 

 

 

You know when you run  around the house frantically searching form something and at the end of the search if you can say “FOUND IT!” it is a total win? Sometimes its a sock in the sofa cushions or a t-shirt at the back of a closet.

I finally found my knitting mojo. It was in the unlikely form of the Quadri hat by Michele Wang. I knit it with Cachet by the Plucky Knitter and added a pompom I picked up in NYC.

I don’t know if it was knitting with cashmere, making something that is not a sweater, or getting to learn a cable that I have never done before, but it just brought me “joy”.

I have decided to keep on the “joy” of knitting training because I think I kind of got a little too in to ” I have to get this done” and “I should do this”. At the end of the day as long as I am not doing a test or a sample knit there is nothing that I need to race towards. I am going to just take my time and let my needles click and clack as they knit on whatever they want.