Knitting Psychos

I finished some stuff! Well, two things, really.

First up, my Skyp to My Lou, My Darling! Socks.

**Details**
Pattern: Simple Skyp Socks by Adrienne Ku
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts STR Mediumweight
Colorway: Gertrude Skein
Needles: US 2
Mods: Knit over 56 stitches on 2′s instead of 64 stitches on 1.5′s; 20 pattern repeats on cuff instead of the 24 or whatever the pattern called for. LOVE them!

And, FO #2. This one has been a long time coming. I started it last September, and we just finished it yesterday!

WINE!
It’s as good as it looks! Joe and I got our names on this year’s wine because we helped pick the grapes last year. Soo awesome!

I have 6 pairs of socks on the needles. Four of these pairs of socks are 50% complete or more, meaning at least one of the socks of the pair is finished. The other two pairs of socks have the first sock at the heel, if not further.

One of these days, I’m going to go on a major finishing rush and have almost a week’s worth of new socks.

The lastest sock finished is my Holidazed sock:

I haven’t started the second sock yet because my hands were kind of hurting when I finished. I was in major “KNITKNITKNIT” mode to get the first one done, so I decided to give my hands a bit of a break. I picked up my Lenore sock today while I was at work, after I crocheted a scrappy dishcloth. I like shorter cuffs, and I was kind of tired of knitting the pattern on the cuff of these socks, especially considering I’m going to have to knit it all down the foot, so I started the heel flap at 4″. I think they’ll be nice cute socks, but I haven’t taken a picture yet. One of these days, I’ll actually finish a whole pair.

If you take a minute to look at my 2009 knitting goals last year, you’ll notice I didn’t really complete ANY of them!

I only managed 6 sweaters for NaKniSweMoDo. I’m not disappointed in that, though. I think it’s more sweaters than I knit any other year. I did, however, majorly increase the sweater stash in all my planning, so I have plenty of sweater plans for the next year or ten.

I didn’t even come close to knitting a true lace shawl, though I did knit my share of shawlettes, with plans for many more.

I did knit a lot of socks, but I didn’t really knit any of my club socks. Maybe one or two. I was going to swear off clubs completely in 2010, but I’m in a few of the themed Woolgirl clubs (a kit here, a kit there), and I think I’m signing up for the Rockin’ Sock Club again this year. It’s not frilly – just yarn and a pattern with an extra goodie or two thrown in here and there, but it works. Some of the other clubs, while they’re packaged wonderfully with lots of little extras, I just don’t USE the little extras, and they end up just taking up space.

I hardly even TOUCHED my dishcloth cotton stash. I did knit from the stash, but I acquired a lot, too. I took pics of the stash for Ravelry, but didn’t document it here. I didn’t really get over the stash gluttony, either. I did not finish my Lizard Ridge, though I did knit a square or two on it. I also did not find a good way to store my circs, so they are still in their ratty plastic bag. hehe I didn’t knit a ton of baby knits, though both my friends’ babies DID get baby blankets for their littlest ones.

My last FO of the year was a pair of socks. I bought the yarn when I visited Dallas for my birthday in 2008, and I finally managed to get a pair of socks out of it.

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2010 will hopefully bring less knitting “rules”. I plan to knit what I want when I want to knit it. I will continue to knit socks, and I will knit some of that new Sweater Stash yarn.

I would like to try to knit 12 miles of yarn. A mile a month.

I would also like to finish or frog all current WIPs/UFOs. In no particular order:

• Circle Socks
• Lizard Ridge
• Mitered Square Blanket
• Sock Yarn Blankie (ongoing, no finish date at the current time)
• Water Cube Socks
• Sunshine Socks
• Over the Rainbow Socks
• Juliet
• Vine Yoke Cardigan
• Swing Coat
• Mallow Socks
• High Line Shawl
• Super Secret Project
• TTL Mystery Socks 2009
• Pie! Mitts
• Crooked Brook Socks – FROG
• Shawl that Jazz
• Lizzy’s Big Girl Bag
• Gabby’s Big Girl Bag
• Simple Yet Effective Shawl
• Nottingham – FROG
• Eastlake – FROG & START OVER
• Eclipse Socks
• Ripple Afghan – FROG?
• Hanami Stole – FROG & start over?

Let’s see how far I can get.