Let the whining begin.

When we got home after our two vacations I had my knitting future planned.

First, I would frog the Summer Chevron up past my ill-thought mods and reknit it. With a little luck I would be able to wear it before the weather turned chilly. Once that was done, I would pick up the kimono sweater again and knit the sleeves. When the sleeves are done, the sweater will be done and ready to wear, since I already joined the fronts to the back and picked up and knit the the front and neck band. And wove in all the ends. When those two sweaters were done I would start a Clapotis using the three skeins of midnight Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud, either for myself or to have a gift in reserve. The Clap would be my carry-along knitting, and I would start swatching for a sweater that has been swimming around in my head for three years.

You know what they say about the best-laid plans, right? Well, mine gang aft a-gley, too.

Summer Chevron was going fine. I was powering through all that stockinette on US#4 needles when I decided maybe I should throw it on the mannequin to see how it was going to fit.

 

Ignoring the whacked-out hemline -- which I plan to fix with some severe blocking -- it looks pretty good, doesn't it?

How about now?

 

Yeah, it's a little big.

Summer Chevron went into time out. That means I can move on to the kimono sweater, right?

Wrong.

Somehow I managed to commit myself to a smallish stealth project; another chemo cap, this one for my sister-in-law in Houston, who has a new cancer caused by the radiation treatments a few years ago for her (successfully eradicated) breast cancer; a second chemo cap for Smokey's co-worker; and some felted wine sacks to sell in a fund raiser. All nice, fun little projects and ones that I am pleased and excited to do, but all with deadlines by mid-September. Oh, and I have some Noro Silk Garden to knit a Red Scarf, too; that one at least has a later deadline.

How did this happen? Dunno. I just looked at my yarn and whammo! deadlines!

Here is a glimpse of part of the stealth project.

 

The pattern stitch was a PITA for the first couple inches, but I have it down now. Happily, mistakes don't show much :-) This is a slip-stitch pattern from Barbara Walker #1. Two-color check, maybe? The book is back on the shelf now so I can't look it up easily. I hope to finish this by Monday, then on a wine sack. And the chemo caps.

And someday, maybe, a sweater for myself...

Comments

[lisa]

I have all sorts of knitting plans... and a couple of projects on the needles, always something else to interrupt. How do people manage to finish so many projects???

[marianne]

I'm always amazed seeing other knitters getting sweaters knit for themselves. snag here, snag there, sigh. I'm lovin' your little stealth project, I enjoy playing with the slip stitch patterns.

[Stacey]

The stealth project looks pretty. I love the colors.

[Cookie]

I'm just glad that you caught the size issue before you got more knitting done. A little ease is nice, but that's a bit much.

[Erika]

Ooh I love that check pattern!

[Sheepish Annie]

If you have to go off the rails, knitting chemo caps is the right thing to do. They will be a comfort for the wearers, I'm certain.

You camp, right? I'm seeing a good use for that sweater. All you need are a couple of tent poles...

[Helen]

I love the check pattern...
but mostly I want to hear all about any changes you might have made to Summer Chevron so I can learn from you before I start my own....
I have yarn that really wants to be that sweater.

[Carrie K]

I love the stealth pattern.

Ach, plans.

[Diane]

Yowza, you've been a busy woman. I say, enjoy the small projects and let the Summer Chevron stay in time out for a good long while. Maybe it'll learn its' lesson.

[Miss T]

Hmm. Looks like the Summer Chevron had a few ideas of its own. Not good ideas, but ideas.

[gayle]

Hmmm... Summer Chevron threw off some decreases, maybe? I've had projects like that. Good thing you caught the naughty thing when you did!