I am really enjoying the haiku you’ve been writing – they definitely brightened a mundane Thursday! Still plenty of time to submit a haiku for the contest if you haven’t already.
Scout challenged us all to show off our UFOs (unfinished objects). Yikes. As I mentioned a few days ago, I posted about my WIPs last winter and all of those WIPs are still UFOs. Really, doesn’t work-in-progress sound much better than UFO?! Anyway, I shall review them here for your amusement. Please note that the older pictures were taken with my former camera, which I do not miss at all… You will perhaps be amazed at how Project Spectrum most of my projects are!
The tank that will be ripped out as soon as I find it again, as it is chunky and unflattering and it’s all too clear where I switched to new balls of yarn… Note the phantom paw!
A petal washcloth, intended as only one of many for Xmas presents year before last. There’s a peach one that only has one or two petals somewhere (oh, and a missing needle is there, too, I bet!). This exceeded my Allowable Knitting Fiddliness Level (AKFL) at the time, with all the cotton chenilley ends.
Next is Door County Cable in black Cotton Fleece. The body was knit in the round up to the armpits. When I started to go back and forth, I got really confused and put the project away in a snit. Two years later, I might not find the directions as confusing… or I might still. I did find some errata that could help the situation.
One lone sock of a pair that I promised my dad several years ago… He has challenging feet, darn it.
A fingering weight tank top out of black Fortissima Cotton (75 cotton/25 nylon), knitting on Addis 0s. Started last summer and abandoned when I realized that, in picking up stitches for the first armhole, I had made a tourniquet. (Hmm, more missing needles there…)
A mobius cat bed for Chaos. Since it still has a hole in the bottom (and is definitely not felted yet), he found the row counter much more interesting. I put this project aside one hot and humid day last summer – it filled my entire lap with its way too warm self and then lured Chaos in for a nap. Since Chaos has most of a down comforter as a cat bed – do you think he’d enjoy this at all??
Out with the old and in with the new… Clockwise from upper right: a hat from some handspun that someone gave me. Started in, um, March? April? Eventually it will be donated to a local project for the homeless. Next are my 1.3 Trekking socks. Then a sock yarn baby sweater from KnitPicks something or other, abandoned in December for unremembered reasons – perhaps because I was winging it on the sleeves (more needles!). Then the first sock of a pair (bulky – yay!) promised to a co-worker a year or so ago as barter for bike repairs. Finally, underneath it all, my moderne log cabin baby blanket – still chugging away on that one.
Where was Chaos in that final, current WIP/UFO picture?
Hmm, you don’t think that all those bibs scared him off knitting, do you?! Oh dear. For the curious, you can see my dining room in the background, upper left. It’s not waiting for a coat of plaster – that’s how the walls are finished. That empty wine box middle left is a cat hidey hole, not evidence of debauchery! 🙂 And the massive living room mirror can be seen upper right.
Did I distract you from the massive number (11? 12??) of UFOs you just saw? No? Darn it… Have a good weekend anyway!
All of your WIPs (who said UFO, I didn’t hear UFO!) have promise! Too bad about your Dad’s challenging feet – but at least they should stay the same size ;o) so you can finish another sock when you have more time for a challenge.
I like Chaos’ attitude — she’ll take a picture of me anyway, no need to get within reach of the yarn stuff.. it might attack me again!
I feel much better. HA!!!
That cat is just too funny. Are the Haiku’s hilarious?
Hmmmmmm I’m just guessing here, but do you like black a little tiny bit? 😛
The petal washcloth is very cute! Poor unused washcloth.
Moderne blanket, feeling the love! So cute.
My stash may not be as big but I could be that WIP count hands down. I’d just have trouble finding them all! Why not just give Chao the row counter – you know the kids always like the boxes more than the presents anyways!
I don’t feel so bad about my WIP now, but I still can’t get into doing them. Chaos just love to be into everything.
Love Love Love the new banner (except my obsessive compulsive inner core keeps tripping over ‘cat parentin’)… and the recent pics of Chaos are wonderful!
I’m feeling a bit better now about the… ummmmm, 20-year-old WIP’s… that are hanging out in (banished to) the ‘useless closet’ in my room. Although I know that I will NEVER rip them out. Especially the partial Manos del Uruguay self-designed fair isle cardi, which utilizes fair-isle designs from a fabulous book which I can no longer find either in my own collection or anywhere else. Horrendous waste of Manos yarn, but there you are… for some reason I keep thinking that I need it to keep track of those designs. And that maybe some day I will find another skein of Manos in that particular shade of blue (stop laughing, I know EXACTLY the odds of that happening – I don’t want to injure my finger typing out all those zeros) so that I can finish it. And then give it to someone half my current size.
Okay, maybe I’m not feeling *that* much better…
I think you got me beat, girlfriend…but thinking about UFO’s just makes me tired. Hows about we list the things we WANT to knit….what’s on the list of things we must try???
Looks like Chaos is interested in finshing up those UFO’s for you!
OK. Right, I don’t feel so bad now. Isn’t amazing what you find when you go through your WIP’s?? Heh heh. That’s how I end up with a gajillion needles in the same size.
Chaos is having a field day! Little dude…
I’m so not doing that one again! Most of mine are stil WIPs too I think. In fact, I’m unsure of whether I’ve completed any of those, though I have completed things since… One will for sure get picked back up once I have a few other things off the needles and the temps die off. It’s be awesome to have done for the Sept nights up there, but I’m not sure that is realistic…
There is NO WAY I’m even going to attempt to FIND my UFO/WIP’s…it’s just too overwhelming.
Although it could be a nice distraction from cleaning up my room…
LOVE the look of your site and your button is way cool. :O)
WIPs or UFOs, either way, I’m behind again…will see what I can do to flash them to the world this weekend, as most everything is unfinished right now…
((((hugs))))
Ah, the tourniquet armhole. I’ve made a few of those. 🙂 I don’t feel so bad now. I place to do the haiku once I get back and can think straight.
Dude, yours only goes up to 11? Mine goes to at least 15.
I’ll have to pull out my UFO’s one of these days.. most of them need to go to the frog pond. I”ve never made my cat a kitty bed because she’d probably never lay in it- especially if I spent a lot of time and effort on it.
I like the petal washcloth!
Chaos: “It’s way to hot to play with the knitting. And Mom isn’t paying attention to me. I will lay here in a quite dignified pose until she takes *my* picture.”
Chaos is the next Vanna White! 🙂
Love the new blog layout. Looks great. And WIPs (I prefer that moniker too) are just reminders of how fickle we knitters are. On to the next new thing! It’s the process baby.
can’t the empty wine box be both a cat toy AND evidence of debauchery? 😉
He he. Oh I so love this post 😉 It gives me a loverly oh so smug feeling……
Thanks for sharing, you’ve cheered me up no end!
You’ve cheerd me up too :-)I actualy only have 5 WIP. Two shawls, a cardigan an summer top and a design project for Magknits with that lovely silk
Aaaww… I have one UFO (grin) but I will have two by this evening.
You just stopped by the liquor store and picked up that empty wine box for Chaos, right? Someone else bought the wine….. right…….
I have to say that Chaos is better at posing with the UFOs than Simon is. I do think he wants that cat bed finished, though.
I see your affinity for the color black…for your eyes’ sake, I hope you have good lighting for your knitting! I love the AFKL–I’ve run into things that exceed that level for me too!
Ah, Chaos, what a poser. Phantom paw and all.
trish
Cute petal washcloth! Maybe I ll try that with my second ball of Violet Veil. 🙂
You don’t haave that many FO’s and you will finish all of them won’t you :).
I am impressed with your bravery in displaying all those UFO’s! I am craven.
I like your collection 🙂 I finally put mine up at http://www.wavybrains.com/auntie_esq/2006/08/ufo_collection.html
Not nearly so impressive!