2022: Wk of Jan 2 – 8; Carryover WIPs and New Year’s Day Cast-on

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Hope your new year is off to a great start. Have to admit, seeing those pictures of snarled traffic in the snow makes me especially glad to be in SW Florida. My housesitting son called to say a small tree fell across the driveway but fortunately he was able to use a chain saw to cut it in half and pull the pieces to the sides of the driveway.

SPIRALING CABLES SHAWL – Stephen West

I love the boldness of Stephen West shawls so I’ve wanted to knit one for a while. The perfect “storm” came together with Christmas yarn gifted from my daughter that I didn’t know what to do with, my new local knitting group knitting the Stephen West Spiraling Cables Shawl, and a favorite podcast, Frivolous and Frugal, starting a Stephen West cast-on “party zoom” on New Year’s Day. So while home at Christmas I grabbed a skein of Noro Silk Garden Sock that I thought would pair nicely with the Alpaca Plymouth Christmas yarn, and brought it back to Florida for the New Year’s Day cast-on. I’m not very far along since I have other projects that NEED to get finished but here’s what I have so far. The long run of colors means you can’t see much color yet but as the shawl gets wider it will get more colorful. It is going to be a very heavy shawl even though I’m using thinner yarn and bigger needles than called for. I hope I’ll be able to get some use of it in the spring or fall back in Ohio. I do work on this some every day or two so that I don’t have to relearn how to do the pattern. It’s very simple but still, I know myself.

HELDIG TANK TOP

Good progress on the Heldig Tank Top for my daughter-in-law. I have a bad habit of making changes to patterns without understanding the consequences. I decided to do some waist and bust shaping which resulted in being WAY off on the stitches needed for separating to make the front and back yoke sections. So I’m making more modifications. Hopefully it will look okay when finished. If not – rip it!! I’m now knitting the front yoke.

TENNARISUKKA SOCKS

These are not getting a lot of attention as I need to get that tank top off my needles. I do hope to get them done by the end of the month for my sock per month goal. I do want to make the “leg” portion longer so that they show above my tennis shoes. I hate making cute socks only to have my shoes hide them. So they definitely need to go above my ankles a little more.

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“WALKING SOCKS”

Well ….. the walking while knitting is going great. The not looking while walking, not so much. I do enjoy knitting on the socks while walking in the mornings with my hubby. Two birds with one stone – exercise and knitting. But I just can’t get comfortable yet with not looking at my stitches on almost every stitch. But then, this was a goal for the year so I have 12 months to work on it!!

BABY BLANKET

Yes, technically I have a 5th WIP. That’s the baby blanket for my niece that I’m honestly not motivated to make. The baby is due in March. Blankets take sooooo long!!! Not sure what I’m going to do about this WIP. For now it sleeps (like a baby 😉 ).

Hope 2022 is going well for you. I also want to acknowledge my father turning 93 yesterday!! Sure hope I’m as healthy and capable as he is at 93. I gave him the book to fill out to pass on to the kids and grandkids.

This is a year of projects (YOP) update. YOP is a Ravelry Group – make a plan for the year ahead for all your fiber activities, then update your blog each week. Plans can be calendar year (like mine) or mid-year start (like many). Following the plan is optional and creates some of the fun of posts. YOP is in it’s 11th year. It’s my second in the group.

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