Nuclear Knits: Where knitting is the bomb!

Yep.  I have totally slacked on updates.  I’ve been actively working down my year of project stuff.  But it has been a hot minute since I posted.  Let’s cover the good. I finished a few things.  A sweater (Sylvia) that has been on the needles for a year.  Roving that has been sitting for a year and the Hitchhikers shawl that was part of my planned year of project work.   Now for the bad.  I have two projects on my year of project list that just aren’t speaking to me.  One is a pair of mittens on fingering weigh and the other is fingerless mitts (which the pattern is just painful).   In the new year I plan to assess what is working and what I’m hating and focus on the things I enjoy.  Life is too short to work on projects we hate! On my list for yop I still have 3 official projects to complete.  I might swap the sweater pattern.  The plan for the week is coming together!

A week of FO.  Feeling like maybe this whole wrapping up projects is possible! I finished a simple shawl.  I purged most of this mandala yarn.  Not really a fan. These mittens are a pattern I wrote fir a sock tube from my cranked tubes.  Again so-so!  But at least I’m done!

Well poo!  I had to pull out black from the crossstitch (which sucked).  And the shawl is taking forever.  Sigh!!

I’ve been working it!!! I’ve picked up a cross stitch that I’ve left languishing.  I’ve also been working hard on a shawl from my list this year. Most of all I’ve purged my craft closet and am trying to finish and not purchase anything new.

Finished object time!  Took me nearly a month - but finished this shawl/scarf.  One full skein of sock yarn.  The pattern was Be Simple Variation on Ravelry. Once it was blocked it sure did come out a lot bigger!

I feel like focus us back on.  I pulled out a king quilt to work on (had to order more fabric).  Worked a lot on my scarf/shawl and pulled out cranked sock tubes to make socks abs mittens. Stash going down!!!!

I’m still knitting away.  The shawl/scarf is coming along!  I’m also busy pulling out quilts.  Feeling slow.

Don’t tell my daughter … this is for her! I’m happy to say a Christmas scarf is fine!  D for done!  One more skein used and another one off the books!

Well crap.  I’m just not feeling the mittens out of fingering weight.  I’ll work on them slowly.  But they feel horribly unrewarding right now.  So while cleaning up I pulled out two other projects on my list.  1. Christmas gift quilt.  I got the whole thing laid out and now just need to finish the backing and quilt. 2. Simple holiday scarf for my daughter.   So while slow progress on the mittens is being made, more year of projects things are getting knocked off!

I have decided I’m just not in a sock knitting mood.  I’m very tired of them!  So I frogged the socks snd cast on a pair of mittens!  Feeling better with the project!

 I decided to cast on socks instead of finger less mitts for the next project and it is slow going.  The already knit sock that was painted by Gale's Art is the Yellowstone blank.  I tried to do two socks at once, toe up, and found that the yarn kept getting hung up.  So, I had to ball 1/2 of the blank.

I thought finishing this project would have been a lot faster than it was.  I only used one skein of the Rowan and a full skein of handspun.  But I think it came out great!  Next is a pair of socks!!

I’m in the middle of fair isle knitting!  Rabbit in Moonlight Cowl.  I’m using Rowan baby merino and silk yarn mixed with handspun.  I was hoping to finish before the end of the month - but it isn’t going to happen!

Another one down!!  1090 yards of glorious windy valley Muskox yarn.  I bought this year probably 15 years ago at the Toas Wool Festival.  II’ve thought over the years about making something amazing with it and finally decided.  Took a while to get this project done - nearly a month - but so worth it!!!

I’m still in the long haul of the Strickmich shawl. I’ve finally moved to the second color.  But this is slow going!

I’m feeling so behind and slow.   I know I’m not. I know the slow going shall is really September’s project.  But it still feels slow.  Anyone else feeling that?

I’m feeling like progress has been better than expected.  I had for July just the Drop Stitch Scarf.  I finished that up and then moved to project 2 on the list.   Fingerless Mitts  !  I used a sport weight yarn and ended up with a bunch left over.  Thinking another pair of mitts or a hat! Since these went fast I cast on for October’s Project.  Selago Sunset.  I’m using yarn I’ve had forever and never found a good enough pattern for.  Has that ever happened to you?  I spent too much on the yarn and nothing seems perfect enough for it. I hope to finish this early too!  Fingers crossed 

My goal for July was to finish this handspun scarf!  I made it with time to spare.  This drop stitch scarf was boring but came out great.  After I finished I moved onto August’s project (fingerless mitts).  They have turned out to be a very fast knit.  I’m happy for that since the scarf felt slow!

Week two of a year of projects and I’ll be honest.    I feel slow.  I see loads of people killing projects off their lists and I’m just moving at a snail pace.  Knitting a scarf was probably a mistake for the first project on the list.  But, I'm going to stick it out and try and finish before the end of the month. I did finish hexi puffs. I took them and made this little lab quilt.   It look me weeks on weeks to make this many and I thought it would come out larger.   Instead it is a little lap thing.  I will say it is warmer than all get out!  The puff part of it really makes it warm.  This was an item on my list to finish for this year.  So that is good.

I love the Copy Cat Cowl pattern for handspun yarn.  It always looks amazing and is fun to knit. I think this might be the third one I’ve done in this pattern.  The yarn was scrappies from Funky Carolina.  I miss her roving so much!  Anyone know what she is up to?  Now onto the next project - drop stitch scarf.  I hate knitting scarfs - but I think it will be amazing!