Summer night madness - day 3

You might ask what happened to day 2. May SKA socks happened and they are still not ready.

However I did finish my second challenge. It didn't turn up as expected. My suspicions about running out of yarn was proven true so instead of a hat it turned out to be head band. Now I am concerned with one other project. I meant do do a shawlette for me but it will turn up being tiny. I think I will give it a go but have put it in the bottom of the pile so plenty of time to change my mind.

For day 3 project I started a cushion cover making two big granny sqeares.

Summer night madness - day 1

I started with a hat for hubby from bulky yarn. And tadaa - I finished it. Good start for this challenge. I am not terribly pleased with the end result thou. I knew I would run out of yarn and would need to do a bit with different yarn. It doesn't look too bad. If I manage to add a lining to it hubby might even use it.

Here piccies:

For the rest of the day the plan was to knit my May SKA (Sock Knitters Anonymous) challenge socks which I didn't manage to finish in May. However I started making a swatch for an Owl hat for my daughter and now I am 15 rows in. Little bit worried that I might run out of yarn again. This time I don't have anything suitable to finish it off with so lets hope it won't happen.

Summer night madness

During the summer we have long days and short nights here in Finland. So this has inspired aiti-puffa to start her knitting challenge which starts on the first of June and finishes in the end of July. The idea is to start a new project each day until the summer solstice and then get them all finished by the end of July. This means 20 projects.

I have tried to limit my WIPs to five at a time so this might just prove to be a bit of a mind bog for me. But on the other hand gives me a perfect way to half my Ravelry que and get all those smaller projects out of the way. I am looking forward being able to concentrate to bigger projects made with lush yarns I have been shashing away. Also I am looking forward getting my stash to fit that one bedding box which is under my bed.

I have updated my queue in Ravelry with the tag KYH2014 (summer night madness abbreviated in Finnish) and yesterday I dug up all the yarn and needles needed. I do need to go shopping for some buttons and I am a bit short of 3 mm circulas and I don't have 6 mm DPNs so those need to be purchased as well. Plan is to start new projece each day and then do it as fast as possible and after all the projects have been started take one at a time to finish. I think I will start with the thickest yarns and leave the scarfs (three planned) for my holiday trip to England.

Here is a picture of the folder with all the patterns and yarn for 19 projects paired with needles/hooks. No 20 is an UFO which was knitted last year but has been waiting for finishing off ever since.

Oh and my furry assistant managed to ge to the picture as well.

I will be back on Sunday the 1st of June to tell how I got started...

Hello and welcome

Hi, My name is Marru and this blog is all about my knitting aspirations. I made an invetory in my yarn stash week ago and I have modest 13 kilos of yarn and 1.5 kilos WIP. I will put here a picture of the pile before sorting it all out as soon as I can manage to download the picture from my phone. I have some wool in the pile I am quite happy to get rid of. So I will put them for sale in Facebook (Finnish knitting yarn selling and buying group). Then the aim is to get through the remaining piles to actually get the projects finised before starting more adventurous designs. At the moment I am in the middle of knitting Christmas presents. I have one and a half scarfs done and one and a half sock done. More scarfs, mittens and socks yet to do. Yet again photos to come. I have asked Santa to bring me couple of knitting books, fingers crossed that he is able to get those for me. One is about one piece knitting (I am hopeless when it comes to finishing off) and the other one is about entrelac knitting. A technique I have wanted to give a go for a long time. Better get on with the Christmas present scarfs so that I can take some pictures to put up here. I am also in Ravelry with the name Marruknits, I will be adding my stash there bit by bit.