Somewhere in the cyber-world of knitting and crocheting,
someone decided that Wednesday would be “WIP day”: Work in Progress (or is it
“Process”? I think “Progress”
sounds better). Anyway, a day to
show off whatever yarn-y thing you’ve been working on. It’s also motivation to add a few more
rows or a sleeve or edging by the next Wednesday. At least, it is for me. I need those little mini-goals. So on Wednesdays, you’ll see my WIP on my FaceBook page.
Lately, I’ve been working on a couple things. A pink, striped scarf that I’m knitting
– my first real knitting project.
I’m teaching myself via books and YouTube videos and consultations with
my mother and best friend. I
started with a dishcloth, I figured it would be easy and who really cares if it
doesn’t turn out just right. It
was awful – the stitches were so uneven and there were holes in it and it was
quite odd-shaped. Yes, so I jumped
straight from that to my scarf. And if you've seen me out anywhere in the past month - PTA meeting, swim team practice, basketball game - and wondered what I was doing with the bag of multi-colored yarn, now you know.
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| My knitted scarf that I will finish one day ("Hitchhiker" pattern by Martina Behm) |
My other projects are crocheted, my regular yarn-craft of
choice. I started another beaded,
fine-weight scarf during the Olympics.
But after about 30 rows, I realized that although it was potentially
beautiful, given the weight of the yarn, it would be the next Olympics before I
finished the thing and have set it aside, loathing the thought of pulling it
all out to make something else.
I’ve also been working on a sweater, which is now in its third or fourth
iteration, I’ve lost count – a consequence of my indecisiveness.
Now what am I doing? I’ve decided I want need a
crocheted or knitted skirt. A
friend of mine had one on at a dinner we went to last spring and it was so cute
and I’ve want one ever since. I’ve
never had a crocheted or knitted skirt before, at least not for me, so I'm hoping it will look nice on me. Here's the one I'm thinking of - its swirly and I think it will look cute with boots for the fall? (Btw - it looks nothing like the skirt my friend wore, but that's beside the point.)
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| A new skirt for the fall (pattern by Doris Chan for Interweave Crochet) |
To continue the theme - in addition to the yarn skirt, coincidentally I have
another identically named project which I will also start this month.
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