{"id":536,"date":"2015-04-16T08:37:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T15:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2015-04-16T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T15:37:30","slug":"revolving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Revolving"},"content":{"rendered":"

My knitting\/crochet mojo seems to have hit a particularly bad stretch of “sporadic activity.”\u00c2\u00a0 And “hopping around.”\u00c2\u00a0 And “never getting anything done.”\u00c2\u00a0 There are no finished works, just a large pile of works in progress (WIP) that never seem to actually…well, progress.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at what’s on the needles lately.<\/p>\n

I dug the Lestrange Cardigan<\/a> project out of the long-term storage WIP pile to knit on while on vacation.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s really the perfect weight to be wearing right now through to the beginning of July.\u00c2\u00a0 (The weather gods have determined that summer does not officially start in the Pacific Northwest until they see the Independence Day fireworks.)\u00c2\u00a0 I finished the upper body, and knit most of the sleeves while traveling (hooray for knitting them both at the same time!).\u00c2\u00a0 And then I stalled again because I needed to switch to the final version of the Knockoff Cable Sweater.\u00c2\u00a0 I just have the sleeve cap shaping and then miles and miles of lace borders to go!\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I can sneak it in somewhere…<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20140926_172002_clr_sm\"<\/a>Last month I had the itch to crochet a crescent shawl<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t ask me why, it just overcame all rational thought and I needed<\/em> to have one right then<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Cue the Ravelry pattern search, the stash dive, and many hours of happy crocheting.\u00c2\u00a0 And then the need passed, right about the time I got to the lace section and the pattern was getting interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 I think unless I can find a willing recipient for this, it just might stay in hibernation indefinitely.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20150213_080424_sm\"<\/a>I sat down with Persnickety and knit a few pairs of socks.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, we’re getting somewhere!\u00c2\u00a0 We happily cranked out a pair of boot socks for Husband, and a pair of boot socks for myself, then we hit a bit of a snag.\u00c2\u00a0 My hope was to crank a pair each week, for one or the other of us.\u00c2\u00a0 The reality is that when she drops half the sock after happily knitting the foot and turning the heel, I walk away and she goes in time out for a few days.\u00c2\u00a0 So it took a few weeks to get the next pair of socks.\u00c2\u00a0 And it’ll probably be a few weeks before the next pair is cranked out.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is still twice as fast as I can knit them myself by hand, and that’s if I don’t knit sweaters too.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s still pretty handy to have around.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20150414_151655_clr_sm\"<\/a>One of the Knit Girls decided she wanted to knit my Knockoff Cable Sweater<\/a> (you know the one I wrote about here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>) for herself out of the same yarn I’m using for my final version, but in a different colorway.\u00c2\u00a0 So I played around with the charts to size them for her dimensions and we both cast on a sleeve.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that even with my sporadic knitting schedule right now, it’s a quick knit and we both finished the sleeve at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 Now on to the second sleeve.\u00c2\u00a0 If my friend wasn’t knitting with me, and we weren’t fixing charting discrepancies as we go (apparently I was half asleep when I updated the charts), I’d probably put it down.\u00c2\u00a0 This one isn’t for wearing until next winter; the Lestrange Cardigan would be higher on the to do list.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20150328_151227_clr_sm\"<\/a>Is this what Spring Fever is all about?\u00c2\u00a0 Tackling all the projects, all at once?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My knitting\/crochet mojo seems to have hit a particularly bad stretch of “sporadic activity.”\u00c2\u00a0 And “hopping around.”\u00c2\u00a0 And “never getting anything done.”\u00c2\u00a0 There are no finished works, just a large pile of works in progress (WIP) that never seem to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,9,51,11,15,53,65,13],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-crochet","tag-knitting-2","tag-lace","tag-shawl","tag-socks","tag-spring","tag-sweater","tag-wool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}