Knitting Dreams

Sock of the Month Club

I have been dreaming of knitting since Christmas. It's bizarre, but there it is. I haven't been knitting much, but my yarn collection keeps growing. I have tons of sock yarn. So, I've decided to make my own sock of the month club. There is an awesome one online here, but it's a bit too pricey for me right now. Besides, I want to reduce my shelf and baskets full of yarn, not add to it.

January's sock is done and finished in January. Fancy that! Deadlines haven't worked well for me in my knitting past. This gives me hope.

I knitted my own pattern, which is pretty simple except I knitted from the toe up this time. It's my first time. Usually I knit from the cuff down, so I'm pretty pleased with myself. If only the socks ended the same in the patterned yarn. One has a blue edge and one has a purple. Still, they have character and they fit really nice.

My February socks aren't on the needles yet, but they will be tonight. I'm doing the Feather and Fan pattern from Socks, Socks, Socks.

Other Knitting Projects

There is just too many projects on my needles. Every size of needles are taken up with a project. It's so bad that if I want to start another project, I either have to put the needle hogging project on stitch holders (a total pain) or buy new needles.

My goal this year is to slowly free up my needles by finishing my projects. I say slowly because I need to concentrate on one at at time. Otherwise, I just do part of one like a crazed person until I get burned out - which I always do - and go to the next one.

In my office, I have a shelf filled with knitting projects in ziploc bags. I want my shelf back. I'm running out of space for my knitting books. I want to finish all of those before I buy more yarn. Chances of me not buying yarn anytime soon are pretty slim, but I'll try be strong.

I wasn't going to make any resolutions this year (except for getting rid of craptastic things), but it looks like I have a goal.

Fingers crossed