In between working on changing over the blog and my domain name (all of which takes an impossibly long, annoying and frustrating time)I did some knitting.
Anthology Throw: I have added mini skein #16 and it is about halfway added. Not sure I will make monthly goal. I knit and knit every evening but there seems to be a tremendous lack of progress on each project.
Socks: I am almost to the tow decreases and the first of the pair will be complete. I really enjoy working with the Cozy Knitter sock base. The colors are calming and wonderful.
Crochet: I finally got out all the colors I want to use. I then plugged them into the pattern following the designers color patterns. She used 9 colors and I am only using 8. Once I settle down to crochet this should go faster than knitting. I believe I am a faster crocheter than a knitter. OF ocurse usually I am using larger yarns when crocheting. Fingering yarn is nice but it takes a long time to see any progress when it is in use.
Charity Knitting: This only gets worked on every Sunday (for the most part). I still have less than half of the skein left to use. This looks lovely but the dark yarn is a killer with my old eyes.
New Work on an Old WIP: I had grand plans to knit the Stephen West MKAL2023. I had the yarn all picked out even before the MKAL began (who am I), well….I finally wound all the skeins on my wool winder 2 weeks ago (yes, I realize it is now 2024 and he has just begun another MKAL). Anywoo, I cast on and here the wheels fell off again. If I did not love the yarns I selected and was not so stubborn this would have gone into the never to be even completed project land. I have cast this thing on 3 times. I am hoping this third and last cast on will be the one that works. Every time I work on a Stephen West project I swear to myself never again. I like a little challenge in my knitting but not on every 10 rows. I did attempt his sock along this year but threw in the yarn pretty quickly after I realized I would be learning something like 40 new techniques on a simple pair of socks. The yarns I am using are mostly from Knitcrate.
