Bringing Back Some Classics
I participated in Stash Dash (complete 5k of projects between 5/23 and 8/7) this year and while I didn’t make it, it was a great motivator to getting a lot of nearly finished projects off the needles. I got to 3822 yards between knitting and spinning. Between Stash Dash and reorganizing the stash I pulled out a lot of wips and have been trying to get them back into the knitting queue. I even found the Christmas socks which had been shoved in a corner.
This is a Hitchhiker that I started with some of my first finished fiber. It is a two ply of a Loop Batt and some Orange fiber that ended up 462 yards. I cast this on over the labor day weekend in 2012 when I was traveling for work. It had 23 teeth when I picked it up and my goal is to finish the handspun, whatever number of teeth that gives me, but I am hoping for 42.
Once that’s done I want to get back to work on the Bayside that I frogged. While alternating skeins makes it a bit of a mess as a travel project it would be good for sitting in front of the TV after work. I’d like it to be a second Rhinebeck sweater. Now that we have a place booked and paid for we are all bouncing excitedly about going.
Six Knitting Geeks at Yarn-Con for the weekend. Wee. If last year was any indication it will be a great time.