Sock it to me!
I'm pleasantly pleased by how many have decided to join me in the WIP Wipeout attempt to tame the beast. It will be a far more pleasant task when with good company!
Well the non-knitting WIP, aka the move, has been tentatively scheduled for the weekend of April 15th or the following. Depends on the weather the weekend of the 8th as the folks need a day to get their boat ready to launch. Dad is going to see if he can get some of the guys from work and a truck to assist in the whole moving thing. I spent some time on Saturday with an online floorplan layout tool trying to figure out what could move into the new (old) room and where it would best sit. I think I've got something that will be workable until the construction is done and I get a larger bedroom. I put together a carload worth of rubbermaid bins, the kids summer clothes and a bucket or two of yarn. After their nap, I schlepped everything over to the new (old) house. Being that it was sooooo nice on Saturday, the short people stayed with the folks and played in the backyard while I packed up another load with first a stop at the much hated Kmart to buy more bins. At this point 90% of the yarn has moved. Amazing. I've kept all the WIPs at my place as they'll go last. Makes the whole move seem real now and a symbolic heart is no longer at my place.
While I was emptying the sock yarn shelf of the yarn cabinet, I figured I'd photograph what I had. I found later 3 more pairs worth in a different cubby so they aren't represented with these. Count 'em. 38 pairs worth. That doesn't include the pairs that can be made from the left overs for the short folk. It also doesn't take into account that Kristen has made a pair from some single skeins that I bought 2 for. I'm somewhat embarassed by the sheer number of skeins here as I hadn't a clue there were so many of them. Potato chips indeed, you surely can't just have one!
While today isn't Wednesday, the official update day of the WIPEOUT, I do have a finished object to report! Nope, not Klaralund, though I did sew up her side seams. I have to do the whole sleeve thing, but that shouldn't take terribly long. Maybe tonight, tomorrow at the latest. I decided to finish off the Diamond Fantasy Scarf.
Project Details:
Yarn: Fleece Artist Merino - less than 1 skein
Pattern: Sivia Harding
Needles: Clover US5
Started: 12/23/05
Finished: 3/12/05
I really could have finished this far faster had I focused (there's that word again!), not to mention kept the index card box in a short folk safe environment. I love it.
This was under the OTT light Saturday night right after I finished it.
During nap on Sunday I decided to block it.
I'm always amazed by the magic of blocking when dealing with lace. The scarf (shawl for us shorter folk) didn't look like much and the yarn didn't feel all that great until after that soak with Euclan and the magical blocking.
My little spokemodel is showing the way to wear this thing. What you can't see from the pictures is the lovely variations in reds throughout the yarn. The camera just isn't picking up on them for a change. Maybe when the sun comes back out, I can get a better shot.
The spokesmodel hopefully learned yesterday that mom doesn't issue idle threats. Playing princess, she reclined in her brother's bed, while he and I cleaned up their room last night (recovering from the mass dumpage of toy bin onto floor). I threatened her with going directly to bed and skipping bath time if she didn't get her butt in motion. I did make the "pick em up or I'm throwing 'em out" threat and even came in with a garbage bag. That was sufficient to get Alex working. Nothing would budge her highness from her reclined position. Until we were done that is. That was when she announced she was going to "keem up". Too late sweetie. I plunked her on the dressing table, fought her into her jammies and left her having a true hissy fit. I took Alex into the bathroom, leaving the baby gate across the doorway, and gave him a bath. Kat sat for a while in my rocking chair in her room, standing at the baby gate being cute and then hissying again because I said no to her request for a bath. She'll get a bath tonight instead. It was sort of nice bathing just one of them. Haven't done that in a LONG time.
Craft on!
Ohh I love the shawl! - I can't wait until I wipe out some of my WIPs so that I can start my lace stole too and not feel to guilty! LOL
Posted by:Claudia | March 13, 2006 at 11:24 AM
Lovely shawl!
Posted by:Alison | March 13, 2006 at 12:04 PM
The shawl has beautiful color and drape...nice work! I too have been having sock yarn 'what the heck was I thinking' thoughts. Time to knit some socks and divest of some yarn, me thinks. Good luck with your packing.
Posted by:margene | March 13, 2006 at 02:06 PM
I LOVE the expression on your spokesmodel's face, and the shawl looks gorgeous. Kat definitely likes getting her own way, doesn't she? (The teenage years are going to be really interesting, aren't they?) Lovely collection of sock yarn you've got there, too!
Posted by:--Deb | March 13, 2006 at 02:35 PM
Oh, and the index cards? Maybe next time you could punch a hole in the corner and tie them together, or get one of those binder-rings from Staples, to keep them together and in sequence? Just in thought!
Posted by:--Deb | March 13, 2006 at 02:37 PM
The shawl looks great - I love Kat's face, too. She's a stubborn one, ain't she?
Posted by:Carole | March 13, 2006 at 03:24 PM
DFS is gorgeous! And that look on Kat's face!! As for the sock yarn: LMAO! But not surprised. :)
Posted by:Chris | March 13, 2006 at 05:42 PM
Love the sock yarn collection. Remember, you will use no yarn before it's time! (I think you're old enough to remind that wine commerical.lol) I really like that yellow. How eye-catching!
Kat is a doll...I bet doubly so when she's asleep. (Can you tell I have my own dolls?) It's a hormone thing, I'm warning you now. Can't say what Master Alex will do but those girls can be a handful, even as short people. ;o)
Posted by:Jill | March 13, 2006 at 06:14 PM
I love your DFS - it's beautiful!
Props to you for sticking to your guns - it's not easy.
Posted by:JessaLu | March 13, 2006 at 10:44 PM
I think that's the most balanced (in color) sock yarn stash I've seen yet - kudos to you! I don't recognize all of the brands, which simply means that there is more yarn out there to try...
Kat sure looks like she's on her way to being the queen. (I say that simply because it takes one to know one, and her stories remind me of ones my mom loves to tell!) She will go far in life because she can stick her ground - a wonderful thing (that she learned from you?!)
are you (and the monkeys) going to be at cummington this year?
Posted by:Kristen | March 13, 2006 at 11:34 PM