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wl below but didn t weave in the ends until 1 15 pattern oats by tincanknits yarn berroco lustra in montaigne 66 skein 130 yards needles us 7 date started 1 11 18 date completed 1 15 18 this cowl is also warm and cozy it s very similar to the hat as far as the garter to stockinette ratio is concerned i made the small cowl i thought about making the infinity scarf version but i wasn t sure i would have enough yarn maybe i would have i don t know the small cowl works better under my coat i do have a fair amount of yarn left over so i m considering making a pair of fingerless mitts to go over my gloves i have a fingerless mitt patterns by tincanknits and will probably use one of those i m holding off for a couple of reasons first i do have gloves so the fingerless mitts would be purely aesthetic and aren t necessary second fingerless mitts don t tick off any of my knitting goals for the year so i may wait to make those until i m sure i m making the progress i want to be making on my goals the last time i made a matching set it was a bit of a disaster so i m really happy that these worked out so well i ve worn them several times already https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2018 02 18 barley oats feed 0 1865 andi barley oats 2018 goals https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2018 02 09 2018 goals https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2018 02 09 2018 goals comments fri 09 feb 2018 13 51 50 0000 http knitstantgratification wordpress com p 1862 yes i did make crafting goals for this year just like every other year and i made them before january 1 but i m just getting around to posting them here today i m not sure goals is the word i want to use but i m not coming up with another one these are goals i want to accomplish but i m not going to stress over it to get them done i m not going to knit until my hands hurt to reach a goal i m not going to sit for hours and not get up for a goal i m not going to let these goals cause me any stress my theme for 2018 is balance i sometimes let stress consume me and knitting is supposed to be a stress reliever for me not cause stress i have a plan for how to accomplish these goals but if it goes off track it goes off track here we go 1 9 pairs of socks i joined the knitting expat s the cosy sock collection 2018 sock club it has 7 patterns 6 plus a bonus pattern that came out before christmas i have started this goal already i would like to use all the patterns this year i finished the bonus pattern and will be casting on the first of the cosy collection today the patterns come out every other month the first one came out last week then april june august october and december the plan is to start each new pair shortly after the pattern is released and once that pair of socks is done i will use the remaining time until the next pattern comes out to work on the other goals so that s 7 patterns the other two will technically be vanilla socks but not plain a couple of years ago tim and i each picked out a skein of regia s arne and carlos yarn to make festive socks meant to be christmas socks i still haven t knit those and would like to do that this year 2 finish the brioche scarf i m currently making i wrote that in late december i already finished this scarf details to come 3 make a brioche cowl see 2 4 make a matching hat and cowl set the hat will be barley and the cowl will be oats both patterns by tincanknits see 2 and 3 5 m ake my amigurumi vegetables i know i know i say this every year but it s time and really as you can see i m flying through these goals so this should be possible this year the vegetables will be the perfect project for summer knitting and that s what i plan to do 6 finish the viajante i ve been working on for months this won t be a problem i ve actually made fantastic progress on it the past week or two i m setting it aside today to concentrate on my ravellenic games projects more to come in another post 7 do something with the two sweaters i made and don t work for me one definitely needs to be frogged and that will be one of my ravellenic games projects i plan to sit in front of the tv watching the olympics and unraveling this sweater and winding the yarn i ve picked two possible patterns to make with the reclaimed yarn the real goal is to actually knit a sweater with it so the yarn doesn t all end up back in my stash for the year but that s secondary frogging the sweater will be a big step the second sweater was the green raglan i finished a couple of months ago where the top was too big i was going to frog it but i may check my gauge and see if i can make an adjustment to just reknit the top we ll see i don t want that sweater to languish the way the one described above did 8 finish my beekeeper s quilt i say this every year too we ll see i did make a few hexipuffs at the end of 2017 i don t need to make a ton more maybe if i just make a few hexipuffs after i finish each project i will get it done 9 take in less yarn than i take out of my stash this is always a goal and i was successful last year this year i m doing something a bit different not only am i tracking the yards that come into and leave my stash but i m also tracking grams i m curious about which measurement will look better as of now it s grams but we ll see 10 finally learn to crochet i had the same goal last year with the addition that i would have a finished object i don t know if i will go that far i m thinking of starting with dish cloths i can use cotton yarn to crochet large swatches and use those swatches for dish cloths we need more dish cloths anyway i guess dish cloths could be considered finished objects but when i said finished object last year i was thinking more along the lines of a scarf or shawl so there we go how much of this will i complete i don t know but so far i m getting them done https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2018 02 09 2018 goals feed 2 1862 andi wrapping up 2017 https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2018 01 20 wrapping up 2017 https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2018 01 20 wrapping up 2017 respond sat 20 jan 2018 16 02 46 0000 http knitstantgratification wordpress com p 1859 we are well into january now it s about time i wrap up my year in knitting there are two finished objects i haven t posted about yet and i have to see how well i did with my goals first the finished objects pattern clarice mitts by amy sparks yarn knit picks brava sport in cobblestone heather 46 skein 125 8 yards needles us 5 date started december 3 2017 date completed december 31 2017 i decided to make a pair of fingerless mitts to use up some of the extra yarn i had to buy to completed the hue shift afghan at first i was going to use them as a white elephant gift but decided that was a bad idea but i had already started them and decided to finish them as i was working on them i asked my boyfriend if he would like them he tried on the first one when it was finished and liked it so when i finished them i gave them to him he has been wearing them fairly regularly and still likes them so that makes me happy pattern liesl by ysolda teague yarn plymouth yarn mushishi in greys 93 skein 455 6 yards needles us 10 5 date started december 18 2017 date completed january 8 2018 now yes i actually finished this in 2018 but that was just sewing on the buttons all of the knitting was completed in 2017 so i count it as a 2017 finished object i bought this yarn using a gift certificate to a local yarn store that my father and stepmother got for me as a gift they have given me two gift certificates to that store and with all the yarn i have purchased this is the first fo i love this yarn i don t know if it s dyed or not because the colors could be natural there are some colorways that are clearly dyed so i m not sure if it s not natural i love how it looks like it is here is a closer look at the yarn i won the buttons in a contest i thought they go perfectly the middle button isn t perfectly place so i may tweak that i was glad i already had buttons and didn t have to go buy any i have three left honestly they are decorative i keep it closed and pull it over my head the liesl pattern has several options there is a high neck versus a wide neck i started with the high neck but when i tried it on it felt like it was going to strangle me so i ripped back and did the wide neck there are two sleeve options cap sleeves versus longer sleeves i went with the cap sleeves i only had one skein of this yarn and wanted to make sure i had enough for the body speaking of which the third option was body length more of a bolero length versus full length i went with full length i m really happy with how this turned out i have worn it several times already it s very versatile i ve worn it with a dress and with jeans it s also a very quick knit i highly recommend it now onto my goals just like every other year i had mixed results 1 complete the hat trick i completed this one even before i posted my goals for the year the hat trick is something the puck this group on ravelry does every year where we try to knit three hats in january i knit two pussy hats for friends who were traveling to the women s march in washington the third hat was a red hat i made for my boyfriend check 2 use 12 skeins of sock yarn so i technically reached this goal but it takes some explaining i consider using a skein of sock yarn to be using at least half of a 100g skein well i can t say i did that but i did use several 50g skeins so when i put two of those together it is the equivalent of using a 100g skein my find your fade shawl really helped i used 5 100g skeins one i didn t fully use but then made a pair of rose city rollers with it so 5 and one 50g skein so that s 5 5 skeins i made another the first pair of rose city rollers with a 50g skein i had in my stash forever so that brings us to 6 i knit 5 full size pairs of socks bringing us to 11 i knit 2 baby sweaters out of 50g skeins of yarn two 50g skeins equal one 100 g skein so that brings us to 12 ding ding ding and there was more i knit a cowl out of fingering weight yarn that used bits of several skeins but the weight of the finished object gets us technically to another skein so i exceeded this goal by knitting the equivalent of 13 skeins of sock yarn 3 finally make my amigurumi vegetables nope spoiler alert it will be on the list again this year 4 learn to crochet well enough to have one crochet fo another nope i feel particularly bad about this one this was something i really wanted to do 5 more yards out than yards in success i took 10 523 6 yards of yarn into my stash and let 12 184 2 yards of yarn out of my stash for 115 8 yay 6 finish beekeeper s quilt another nope but i did knit more hexipuffs 7 make 3 adult garments so if you squint hard enough this is a yes i knit a sweater for tim i knit the green monster for myself that i m going to frog or rip back and redo but decided not to do that until 2018 i finished all the knitting and it was an entire adult sweater the third was liesl i have to admit i scrambled to finish all the knitting on liesl before the end of 2017 just to achieve this goal but i did it a mixed bag but i did quite a bit of knitting in the end i m happy with my projects this year https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2018 01 20 wrapping up 2017 feed 0 1859 andi last finished object on 2017 clarice mitts knittersofinstagram knitting liesl liesl it can now be revealed https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2017 12 31 it can now be revealed https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2017 12 31 it can now be revealed respond mon 01 jan 2018 01 49 29 0000 http knitstantgratification wordpress com p 1856 i only knit one christmas present this year most years i knit more than one gift but this one was a biggie so i knew i couldn t get more christmas knitting in if you follow me on twitter or instagram you would have seen me post about it but i didn t blog about it out of fear the recipient would see it but now that the gift has been received i can finally post about it here is the afghan i made for tim s mom it is the hue shift afghan from knit picks i purchased a kit because my color sense isn t good enough for me to choose 11 colors on my own and make it look good i chose this particular set of colors the decor version because i thought it matched the decor no pun intended in tim s parents living room the best i m not going to go into an exaustive list of the yarns used and their yardages you can check out my ravelry project page for that i can say that i used a total of 3 059 yards of sport weight yarn knit picks brava sport which at time i finished the project wasn t enough to put my yards out yards in ratio in the black close but not cigar because of the size of the project i started early and tried to pace myself when i started in april my goal was to make 3 squares a week that way i would have finished the squares about three weeks before christmas enough time to sew the pieces together and make the border that worked for a while even when there were weeks where i didn t have time to make three squares i was usually able to make up for it in the following week however there was a span of a few weeks where i was focusing on making baby gifts and didn t knit any squares once that was over i started knitting on this blanket exclusively for the reason below there was only one hiccup with this project after i purchased the kit i saw some comments on ravelry from people who said they ran out of yarn i purposely went down a needle size in the hopes it would save some yarn but i was always conscious that i could run out once i finished the baby gifts above i got worried that i might run out of yarn too close to christmas to finish the blanket i started knitting more quickly i got through most of the colors with more than enough yarn left and ended up playing yarn chicken with a few colors there were two colors where i maybe had 2 3 yards of yarn left i ran out of one color and had to order a new one thankfully the dye lots were really close so it s not obvious where i switched skeins i paid for expedited shipping to make sure i got it in time to finish i finished knitting the squares on thanksgiving and was able to seam the pieces together that day it had been many years since i used mattress stitch with garter stitch so i had to relearn that but it worked out just fine the border was easy and i finished the blanket in plenty of time i have been considering how i could use the leftovers since there are only small amounts of any given color i started making a pair of fingerless mitts with the extra skein i had to purchase i only used 6 grams of it in the blanket i might make a striped cowl or hat with the rest https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2017 12 31 it can now be revealed feed 0 1856 andi it s done knittersofinstagram knitting hueshiftafghan to the frog pond with you https knitstantgratification wordpress com 2017 12 26 to 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