I don’t know if you all take me seriously when I say that half the battle around here is finding the project but it’s true. As soon as I saw the number for February, my thought was . . where is that one? I knew I had taken it all with me to Louisiana for Christmas. I never touched it there but had no idea where it ended up when we got home.
I found it. In a project bag, hanging on the “in progress rack”. Exactly where it was supposed to be except I have several project bags in the living room, several in the foyer, several in the bedroom so I went through all those first because really . . I had it with me just a little over a month ago. I never put things back where they’re supposed to be so why would I have thought it was back on the rack? I guess I surprise myself sometimes!
February Project
This one is going to be so incredibly easy to finish and so incredibly nice and so incredibly fun to wear. Why have I not finished it already? Another good question!
The pattern is Sunset Highway, and I’m going to do a few mods. I think I’m not going to do colorwork on the sleeves. The pattern does not have ribbing at the bottom. It’s meant to just roll and hang loose and I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do about that. I think the rolling part would bother me. Others have made some mods to the bottom so I’ll do a little research before I get to that point.
Had you asked me, I would have said I started this in about November. No! I started it in August. How time flies! How easily I can stick something in a bag and forget about it.
There are days when I wish I was a monogamous knitter. I sometimes, though briefly, wish that I was a knitter who found one pattern, bought it, ordered yarn, made the pattern – start to finish, and then found the next pattern, ordered the yarn . . and so on. I would not have 100 projects started. I would not have 100 huge Rubbermaid tubs of yarn. Tubs to store. Tubs to stack and unstack. Tubs to dig through to find yarn. Even though I have my yarn all on a spreadsheet and the tubs are numbered (not 1 – 500 so don’t ask how many there are) but say I want to make a fade project and need 5 skeins of fingering weight yarn that fades . . light to dark. Seeing it all on a spreadsheet isn’t so helpful as digging through tubs of yarn and finding the perfect skeins that work together.
Oh well . . no one is perfect, right?
Kay Sorensen says
Just think how boring that would be being a monogamous knitter. You would lose the joy you get from all those gorgeous yarns you keep company with.
Jackie says
I completely understand, I’ve been looking for a specialty thread spool holder I purchased some time ago a year at least and I can’t find it anywhere. I’ve found the packaging but not the holder, I’m also looking for the 100 bobbins I purchased for my mid arm I think I have too much stuff.
Erin says
I don’t knit but I am a ”monogamous quilter” like you described. I usually only have one project going at a time, but that’s because I really only have time for one at a time. Usually I am quilting in a deadline (a baby being born) so I don’t really have time to do more than one. That being said, I recently finished a quilt top and put it aside because that baby’s birth was a few months off and I was invited to a baby shower in six weeks. Normally when I finish a quilt top I quilt and bind it right away but I wanted to make sure I had this other quilt done in time. So it’s folded up and waiting in my closet to be quilted and the feeling is so strange!! I know other quilters do it all the time but I normally start a quilt and finish it completely before going on to the next. But it’s clear you have more fun doing it the way you do it so keep on knitting the way that brings you joy! Isn’t that why we craft in the first place??
Sherrill Pecere says
There was a gal in my bee that quilted like that–one quilt at a time. She only bought fabric for that project and she never started anything else until she finished that first project (because she didn’t have a stash, I’m guessing..LOL). I always thought I should do that but oh NO!! I had WAY too many books and magazines and way too much fabric to work that way. 🙁
Chris says
I think you’re on to something with not putting the design on the sleeves. When I looked at the pictures on the pattern site, the sleeve work distracted me from seeing how beautiful the pattern around the top was. Yours is looking wonderful! Anxious to see the finished product!
Sue E. in Desert Hills, AZ says
This sweater is going to be absolutely gorgeous when you are done. I love the colors. I agree, eliminating the design on the sleeves will be great. However, I do like how the bottom of the sweater is loose. It would be perfect for me (just saying!)
Wanda says
This is a great looking sweater Judy for us nonkinters is there anyway you can show is the difference when you talk about two different looks. I just can’t visualize what you are writing about . Thanks bunches .
Joyce says
Your sweater is very pretty. I pulled out my February project last night and knit 1 row on it. It’s a top down cardigan which I had to re-start the last time I pulled it out. For some reason the directions had not “clicked” with me, and I was doing the increases all wrong. Now I am doing it correctly, and made good notes as to where I was on increases. The big “BUT” is when I started this sweater, I was a size “medium”. Now I’m a size “large”. I don’t want to start over yet again, and I don’t really have enough yarn for the next size up. I’m trying to decide if it is worthwhile to work on a sweater that probably won’t fit when I’m done. I have 3 other sweaters in progress that I could work on, so it would be very easy just to let this one sit and see if I actually start losing weight before I put a lot of time into it…
Lynette says
This is going to be so gorgeous, Judy! I did really chuckle at the telling of your hunt for it. 🙂