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emerging from the cocooon

Posted on | January 27, 2010 | 13 Comments

Winter hits me hardest in January.  Some people get down over the holidays but I’m too busy to really wallow in it until January.  It’s not so much that I get full blow depressed, I just withdraw.

This January I’ve had the opposite of King Midas’ touch – every project I began after completing Staghorn was doomed.  Started a pair of Mitered Mittens but the yarn was too thin, an unpardonable sin when it comes to mittens.  Cast on for a Pfeiffer scarf but decided in my infinite wisdom that the stitch count was too high and cut it by 1/3 – completely forgetting that drastic cables pull in drastically.  It looked like a wool tie.   I began a Francis Revisited only to realize that unless the yarn stretches in blocking, it will be entirely too small for me.

So I put all these projects aside.  To be honest, they’re sitting on top of my mantle – lined up one by one in an homage to failure.   I decided to give knitting a rest and clear off my bobbins.

L to R- (1) squishy BFL dyed by Pigeonroofstudios; (2) Norway, BFL chain plyed and the last of my stashed fiber from Adrian, whose club I’m hoping to get back into (I never should’ve let that membership lapse!); (3) 50/50 blend of wool and mohair I bought at SAFF specifically to spin for socks, spun very thin and chain plyed; and lastly, 4 oz. of Jacob wool, plied and plied again for cabled yarn.

Clearing off my bobbins must have cleared out the bad knitting juju as well, because the next project I decided to knit simply flew off my needles.

All the pieces for a 1824 Blouson from the 2007 Summer IK.  I’ve liked this slouchy, sweatshirt-style sweater from the first time I saw it and got perfect gauge with Queensland Kathmandu DK.  I’m going to block it tonight and then the real work begins  – the finishing is daunting.

I also have a little box of yarn from Knit Picks sitting on my desk, waiting for the start of the Knitting Olympics.  I’ll share the contents soon, I need to knit a training swatch and determine the level of insanity I’m considering.  On the one hand, the only knitting resolution I made this year was No Pressure Knitting…but on the other hand, I do so enjoy a challenge!

Are you competing?

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