I had been feeling rather blah about my current projects lately. I still like them and want to finish them at some stage, but I just don’t feel so motivated to pick them up right now. The more I pushed myself to work on them, the less fun they seemed. I thought a change was in order, before I grow resentful towards perfectly good projects. So what did I do? Start new projects of course 🙂 Eventually I’ll go back to my long suffering, languishing WIPs, but for now these new WIPs are keeping me happy.
I started the So Called Scarf a few weeks ago, with some Moda Vera Harmony yarn I picked up from Spotlight on sale ($1 a ball!). I loved the colours in the ball (mix of red, pink, purple, and brown), and this stitch pattern seems to show them off very well.
This pile here is going to be a toddler cardigan for a swap I’m working on with Jade. The pattern is from Debbie Bliss’s Special Knits book.
And this little swatch tells me that I’ve got the right gauge for Tangled Yoke cardigan, yippeee! In the past year I think I’ve only worked on small things (socks, hats, things for Annette), and I’ve been hankering for something BIG now (because clearly I don’t have enough things to do…). And one of my resolutions this year was to knit a cardigan for myself, and after many patterns consideration, I think this cardigan is it (and hopefully there will be others after this one). Simple enough to be worn day to day, but interesting enough with those cables at the yoke. I’m using the recommended yarn, Rowan Felted Tweed, in ‘whisper’. Let’s hope it will turn out as good as in my imagination. Oh, and in my imagination, I will also finish this cardigan before winter comes along.
