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April knitting and May knitting goals

April - what a disaster!

I'm still plugging away on my shawl!!! Sunday afternoon I had three rows of reverse stocking stitch to go.  Today, Friday, I qam tinking, still.

My reverse stocking stitch was NOT reverse.  So I tinked back, but in tinking a few stitches ran down into the waves.  Not a problem, several waves in the row were reknitted without having to frog back the whole row.  But I DID THE EXACT SAME THING I DID BEFORE,  kept the knitting bunched up at the end of the needle and whilst talking to MrC and not watching what I was doing, I managed to pull about a quarter of the long row off the needles.  I'ave had to tink back two waves.  Still tinking, in fact.  Nut determined to finish this off now. 

So April didn't go as planned.

Finish

1 baby hat - done, but I still haven't taken a photo!

2 after the rain jumper - FAIL. Still have the sleeves and a lot of body to go. Good job the weather is still cool!

3  lightwaves shawl - FAIL. Enough said

Start

4 socks for me - Success!  I've nearly finished these and would have done if the shawl hadn't taken up most of my time

5 more socks - success!  Well,  a few inches knitted, but cast on.

Start

6 a cowl FAIL

7 something else FAIL

 

What a dismal knitting list!

I've not thought about May at all but I'm just going to type and see what turns up...

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1 baby hat

FINISH

2 After the Rain jumper

3 Lightwaves shawl

4 DK socks for me

CONTINUE

5 Other socks for me.  Not guaranteeing that I'll finish though!

START

6 Another stitchnerds pattern, they're really easy, honestly!

7 A cardigan, possibly?  I'm tinking that I might need a cover up over the summer, a lightweihgt 3/4 s;eeve cardu/  I love Citamin D. Maybe another one? 

Eeek. I am so looking forward to finishing some stuff and moving on!

 

 

A few WIPs

I haven't done much knitting this week.  This is last weekend's knitting.,  

Lightwaves shawl. I've caught up!  I need to wind more cream yarn which I'll do tonight.

 

And some DK socks. These are for ME.  I don't wear thicker socks with my boots (too thick!) but I wear them around the flat - and they're such a quick knit.  This photo was taken a few weeks ago. Sock number 1 is finished, and I've about three inches of sock number 2 to go. I fully expect to complete this pair over the weekend. 

 

I've also cast on a pair of 4ply socks for me.  Not much progress, but I'll finiish the thicker socks first.

 

I've been looking through my Knitting Goals for April. Not doing too well!  I have three days and six evenings to

• finish Ligtwaves
• finish my striped jumper (yikes)
• start something else
• start another something else

Hmmm.  I think I'll work on the shawl first, and then the jumper.   I have at least six or seven inches of body and two sleeves to go. The race is on!  I really want to finish this before the weather warms up and I lose incentive!

 

Knit knit Tink Tink

It was all going so well.  I had a very productive knitting weekend.  Working on my Lightwaves shawl.  But I was careless. I didn't bother switching to a longer circular, and had all of my stitches squashed right up on the shorter needle .  The inevitable happened.  I turned to start another row, pulled the stitches up to the point, but, as they were all squashed up, they popped right off the end. About six inches worht.  There's an increase at the ends of each row, and the edge just unravelled.  I've had to reknit ends before, but these were at the beginning of the row, with colour changes every other row. I'd woven in ends too! 

Sunday evening I tried to repair, inbetween cooking dinner.  Monday enening I decided to tink back, a very time consuming process!

Tuesday evenign I carried on tinking. Then just before bed decided to pull the whole lot off the enedles up to the start of the waves.  I'm tinking back the last frou rows slowly, trying to catch all the run stitches.  What a pain!

I did take a photo on Sunday though. Work now frogged back! Sigh.

 

Lightwaves scarf

This is a Stitchnerds pattern which I've had for a while. It's designed specifically for Kauni (I have a very small stash) but I've been discouraged by having to swatch and read through the pattern,  

A few weeks ago there was a photo in the Stitchnerds ravelry group of a variation. It looked great.  She'd used contrasting colour for the ridges and it reminded me of some gloves which I'd knitted a few years ago.  

Out came the Wollmeise. I originally planned to use leftovers.  Cream for the ridges, dark blue for the main section and alternating red and green for the waves.

The colours looked good next to each other.

But very Christmassy once I started the green wave!

 

I've since restarted that green wave with a different, darker colour, Rittersporn.  No photos yet, the Wollmeise reallly doesn't show up well in the evening!

The patterns MUCH easier than I thought.  I'm using German short rows for the waves. I'd completely forgotten about German short rows, and wonder why I stopped knitting thiese in heels.   A socks's on the needles right now...

New project - After the Rain

I started this last month, but don't think I've blogged it yet.  It's another jumper, After the Rain.  Top down, very easy knitting.  Stripes. Felted Tweed stash.

 

I'm past the yoke and heading down the body.  There's waist shaping (not that it will show on me!) but otherwise very basic shaping.   This is my mindless knitting, though some concentration is required so that I don't knit the non working colour in with the working colour. I can't tell you how often that happens!

Evening photo, the colours are Black and Avocado.  I've lost a bit of motivation, what with the weather turning warmer, but I'm going to try to finish this by the end of the month It might mean dedicating a few evenings and a weekend day working on this, instead of being attracted to new, shinier projects!

 

March knitting and April knitting goals

I wasted a lot of time in March when I should have been going for yardage, for the Mad Dash!  It's over now, so I can relax and potter, knittwise!

I haven't looked at March goals, so this will be a surprise to me!

March

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1 Granny's Favourite baby cardigan. Done!

Continue

2 Jumper. Done!  And finsihed!

Start and finish

3 Stitchnerds March KAL - fail!  I spent an entire weekend tryihg to get this right. It's very much still on my to-do list though, it's fabulous

4 Another baby cardigan - done!

Start

5 socks for MrC - done!  And finished!

6 socks for me - fail!  But I've wound up some yarn ...

7 Another jumper - done!  I cast on over Easter and am on the body already, past the yoke. 

Not bad.  I didn't knit a Stitchnerds KAL and didn't start socks for me. What's more, I've started a small shawl out of leftovers and there's a baby hat. 

 

Now for April

I feel quite relaxed about this month. 

Finish

1 Baby  hat. It's a very simple plain one, should take an evening!

2 After the Rain jumper. Stripes.

3 Shawl. It's Lightwaves by Stitchnerd.  I'm going to use Wollmeise leftovers. The top bit is already done. Dark blue. I'm going to use some green and red with cream accents. 

That's quite a bit of knitting, so I'm not going to try to finish anything else,  just get stuff on the needles!

Start

4 socks for me. 

5 more socks for me

6 possibly a cowl

7 to be decided.  At this moment I don't want to knit garments for a while, and quite fancy a bit of lace. but that Vitamin D cardigan was a winner.  I wonder if I might try for another one??