Tag: WIP

The garter slipped scarf is done!!

Over 12 years in the making:

Pattern is “My Garter Slipped Scarf” by Knit Pox!

Yarn by Ray Whiting at Knitivity.

I went on something of a marathon knitting session to get this done. I was tired of looking at it in my knitting basket and also I’m on a finishing binge (except for the hexies. They’re hibernating lol). I’ve got everything that’s knitting off the needles, so I can start something new. The goal is one knit project, one crochet project. Hexies aside, I’ve got a fair amount of other crochet I need to clear up before I start something else. This is subject, of course, to the condition that it’s summer and I have no air conditioning. Lightweight is going to be the name of the game. I’ll decide after I inventory.

One of the things I ran up against finishing the scarf was a sanity check on the bind-off. I just wanted to give a shout out toward this article that made me feel less crazy:

Anyway, with my oldest WiP off the needles I feel somehow lighter lol. It’s a great way to go into the second half of June. Happy summer!

Misbehaving Hexies

So I have some of the pieces to Jewelled Star sitting here…I finished all the hexagons then ran out of steam:

For one, they aren’t overly hexagonal, which I thought might be a problem, and two, they are slightly different sizes which makes joining them miserable, and three I really, really don’t want to make the stars and have been putting it off for something like a year and a half. So I decided I’d just make something with the hexagons and immediately ran up against the problem of their irregularity. I have no idea at all what I’m going to do with the damned things.

I suppose it’s time to put them back in the naughty corner until I have a burst of inspiration. Hopefully I’ll figure out what to do with them, but it’s a relief to declare the blanket a failure. Some projects just never come together they way you think they will, and that’s ok.

the more wips the better


I’ve noticed something peculiar over the last few months: the more wips I have the more I work on them. This leaves me with projects that each take longer but overall I’m making much more progress. so now I’m embracing my desire to start one more thing and I’m much happier. I love bring able to pick up whatever I’m in the mood for and just go.