"Team Hopelessly Overcommitted"?
Feb. 2nd, 2010 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchy_stitchyI keep seeing that group on Ravelry events - the Tour de Fleece, the Ravelympics, and so forth. I feel like a member in spirit, if not in fact...
- I'm still finishing my second sock for January's Sockdown challenge - fortunately I have until the end of February. :) I'm just about at the heel, so I should get it done this week.
- I've picked a project for February's Sockdown challenge - and I think it will be a challenge. The theme is "Underappreciated Patterns" - meaning 15 or fewer projects on Ravelry - and I'd made a note that I intended to use the "Hedwig" colorway sock yarn - it's self-striping, but the colors are fairly muted and the striped areas themselves are fairly busy, so I was looking for "plain, but not plain". I ended up picking Boxcars, by Carissa Browning. I've got the project claimed, but haven't cast on yet - I'm trying to decide whether I want to go to the effort of making identical twins, or if fraternal will do.
- I'm not using these socks for my Ravelympics project! So fortunately I'll have until the end of March to do them. (Now, watch, the March mystery pattern will be totally inspirational...but I'm thinking March might be a Sockdown "catch-up" month.) For my Ravelympics project, I'm making Eva's Shawl in a lovely purple shade - assuming I can get together withsarbah77 before a week from Friday to swap yarn. I've got one ball of my intended yarn, and she has two from the same source - with luck they're the same dye lot, but if not I'll either make it smaller or find some way to make stripes look good. I might also invoke her help for blocking - I've never done a lace project that wasn't a sock before.
- I'll finish the qiviut hat. Someday. It's knocking around in my bag right now. I think it's going to end up too small, unless it can be blocked fairly aggressively. I wonder if a balloon makes a good hat-blocking form...
- I'm still finishing my second sock for January's Sockdown challenge - fortunately I have until the end of February. :) I'm just about at the heel, so I should get it done this week.
- I've picked a project for February's Sockdown challenge - and I think it will be a challenge. The theme is "Underappreciated Patterns" - meaning 15 or fewer projects on Ravelry - and I'd made a note that I intended to use the "Hedwig" colorway sock yarn - it's self-striping, but the colors are fairly muted and the striped areas themselves are fairly busy, so I was looking for "plain, but not plain". I ended up picking Boxcars, by Carissa Browning. I've got the project claimed, but haven't cast on yet - I'm trying to decide whether I want to go to the effort of making identical twins, or if fraternal will do.
- I'm not using these socks for my Ravelympics project! So fortunately I'll have until the end of March to do them. (Now, watch, the March mystery pattern will be totally inspirational...but I'm thinking March might be a Sockdown "catch-up" month.) For my Ravelympics project, I'm making Eva's Shawl in a lovely purple shade - assuming I can get together with
sarbah77 before a week from Friday to swap yarn. I've got one ball of my intended yarn, and she has two from the same source - with luck they're the same dye lot, but if not I'll either make it smaller or find some way to make stripes look good. I might also invoke her help for blocking - I've never done a lace project that wasn't a sock before.- I'll finish the qiviut hat. Someday. It's knocking around in my bag right now. I think it's going to end up too small, unless it can be blocked fairly aggressively. I wonder if a balloon makes a good hat-blocking form...
