Projects for the New Year?

I want to make myself some thrummed mitts... I have made them for everyone but me. More felting and I would like to try and paint some wool. I, too, need to down size my stash. I think to use up some sayelle, I will make up small blankets for the Humane Society. Maybe some catnip toys too. I also have plans for my best friend's Xmas gift for this year. I want to knit up tiny mitts and socks and make a garland out of them for her tree. I also want to buy one of those small (12-15" ) table top trees and decorate in with knitting items for her too. Make little knitting needles , small balls of wool, sweaters, socks etc and hang it on there and give that to her too. I could go on and on but I better start with my mitts. Red wool is sitting here with black roving for the thrum.....and we have had our share of cold here in Canada so I better get a knittin' !

Sandi

I've started a KAL with an Australian friend. We're doing the Hanami shawl by Melanie Gibbons.

're using Knit Picks 100% Alpaca yarn - Alpaca Cloud in the pinkPeppermint flavour. For a change I only have one outstanding UFO right now, and will be working on it as well. I've finished up all the socks I had OTN, so it's time to pick out another yarn for a new pair.

Happy New Year everyone Shelagh

I'm hoping to knit entirely from stash (goodness knows I have enough for several years at the rate I knit) and to finish the UFOs and USOs (unstarted objects). That will take the whole year, as some of them are in very fine yarn.

=Tamar

"Karlisa" wrote in news:477edbf8$0$5135$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com:

i have two Sleeves in your Pi shawls planned, one for me (my NYCO & practice for mom's) and finishing the pair of endless socks now that i *finally* have the more or less matching yarn (it's Manos De Uruguay in the same color scheme. best i can do), the pattern (again) and needles, although i'm going to have to swatch because my guage may have changed in the intervening 8 years... i'm sure i'll make a bunch of weird animals & stuff as well.

i'm planning on having the front entry of my 1815 house taken out, disassembled, rebuilt & reinstalled. it's horribly drafty, but is unique architecturally so i want to restore rather than replace. since the opening is not standard size by modern standards it would cost me just as much to get a custom non-period factory door put in, so why not save the pretty matchstick mouldings? i also hope to get my sick llama back on her feet & well. lee

Oh, the sock and mitten garland sounds adorable! What a fantastic idea! Now you've started the wheels churning for me....hmmm....I think this is why I have so many UFOs in my sewing room. I'm surrounded by too many creative and inspiring people! lol. Still, I wouldn't mind doing some of the tiny mittens and socks to make a garland for the mantle.

Sounds like you have some great plans for the year. I'd love to see your finished work, especially the thrummed mittens and painted wool. My husband ordered a book for me for Christmas that has yet to arrive, and it's about dyeing and painting yarn. So I'm really interested in this subject right now.

lisa

I'm also in awe that you don't have more than one UFO! That's a goal for me. I want to knit up and sew up or toss or rip out every project I've got going in my sewing room. I just get too much inspiration all at once and the next thing I know I'm juggling a dozen or so projects. I've got to get a handle on that! :-)

Keep us posted on that shawl. It's lovely!

lisa

Yes, I have that going on with my yarn stash, too. Don't even get me started on my fabric stash....

lisa

Wow, your house sounds fantastic. I don't blame you for wanting to restore it. I lived in a house that was built in the 1890s when I was married to my first husband, and it had the nicest architectural details. We worked hard to keep as much of it original as possible, so I can appreciate what you're talking about. I now work in a building that is one of the oldest in my state, which was built, according to the records, before 1813 by a Revolutionary War colonel. It's in the late Federal style. It's drafty and nothing is really plumb, but I love the high ceilings and the fact that I have a fireplace and mantle in my office. We also have a second, much smaller building adjacent to ours which we believe was the original kitchen. After our office moves out, the university is supposed to restore the building. I really hope they do, because they haven't taken very good care of it on the outside.

Hope your llama gets better soon!

lisa

Not so much planned as in the "I know I have yarn adequate for X, Y, Z projects" sort of thing. I turned the stash out several weeks ago, reorganized it (not really) and got an inventory going again. It isn't up to yarn store display standards but at least I know what's there and which bin it's in.

I finished 2007 with no UFOs. I had a sweater and a shawl on needles but as I worked on both on 12/31 they're WIPs, not UFOs.

I also am going to try to bust my stash by only

Stashbusting is beyond me, the stash is just too large, but I've once again committed to working from stash only. If I paid for it in 2007 it counts as stash even if it doesn't arrive until 2008. A friend and I are sending off 50# of wool for processing later this month - but again, I owned it in 2007 so it counts as stash.

"Karlisa" wrote in news:477f90f2$0$8889$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com:

make 24 socks & mittens for a garland. number them. put little candies or gifts in each. ta da! Advent calendar :) i'm making one. lee

Awww, poor llama. Hope she feels better soon.

Shelagh

Sandi, are you CalgarySandi on Ravelry?

Shelagh

It's not normal for me to have so few UFO's, but now that I do, I'm going to try to keep it that way. I always have socks OTN, so those don't count. They're for mindless knitting when at a knitters group meeting.

I've had that shawl in mind for quite a while, and now that my friend is ready to go on our little KAL, I think it will be fun. We won't talk about how I frogged it 3 times right at the beginning, that the first beads I used were too big and I had to find something else. It seems to be finally humming along.

The other UFO is Sally Melville's Summer Sweater from The Knit Stitch. I have the back done, and the front half done, but am making it as a lightweight winter sweater out of Elann Lana Cash (merino, silk and cashmere blend). It's a super simple knit in garter stitch. I wish I was as tall and slim as the model wearing it, because it's not going to look like that on me (laugh)

Shelagh

"Shillelagh" wrote in news:B1Qfj.5200$OC1.433 @newsfe20.lga:

me too. and i wish the people i contracted to build my barn would actually *build* it. "It'll be done before Christmas" they tell me... well, i have some poles stick in the ground. i haven't seen the builders for 3 weeks now. meanwhile, i moved Perl from an actual shed (and dismantled the walls of the shed) to a temporary shed because i was told the shed would be in the way of the builders & it was going to be taken down. well, it wasn't. and *because* Perl was in a temporary shed in a temporary pasture without the electric fence on (because the fence charger was in the shed that we moved Perl out of), Perl got mauled by a dog. so, even though her ear infection is better, now she has infected head wounds & is stuck in a tarp & 2x4 shed that can barely keep her dry, warm is completely impossible. i was told that the barn builders would at least bring me a

10 x 10 shed for her *this weekend*, but i don't believe it. yeah, i'm a little bit angry. lee

Oh yee gawds.... mauled by a dog!! Poor thing. Sending hugs her way {{{{{Perl}}}}} I wish the hugs could really help.

Shelagh

I tried once or twice to make this kind of plans and Than everything went wrong and nothing planned happened or couldn`t be done ,,, SO i don`t plan i make ,,, mirjam

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Enigma what are 2 sleeves in the Pi shawl , i know what this shawl was ? i can`t relate sleeves to it ????????????? mirjam

Lisa there is no TOO much inspiration there are just not Enough Hiurs in the day and too much other duties ,,,, mirjam

Make fabrics into Bags , and help earth ,, make cloth bags as presents and hope those recievers will use less Nylons ,, mirjam