Almost done...maybe

I have completed all the pieces for my Starsky Jr however I have reached the point that I have to block. For some reason that just doesn't appeal to me and I just want to go ahead and seam the beast then knit the collar. I have read so many articles touting the importance of blocking but it still doesn't click in my head that I can do it. I think that the best time for me to do it undisturbed would be when we take a trip so maybe it'll have to wait until then so that nothing will "disturb" it. On a side note, I saw a scary spider today that was big, black, and furry with a large white dot on its back. Needless to say, I leaned down to look at it and in the back of my mind I was thinking, "there is no way that this spider will jump." I rushed into the house and looked it up on the internet and lo and behold it was a jumping spider! EEEK! Nature never ceases to scare...amaze me!

Update Starsky Jr

Lately I've been starting projects and then not finishing them. I think I have 3 WIP's on the needles and...oh make that 4 on the needles and probably 2-100 projects in my queue. I have just started working on DD's Starsky Jr again. I have finished what would equate to a vest so far and am currently working on the sleeves. I am doing both at the same time so that they are the same length but sometimes I get confused so I wonder if they really will end up the same length or perhaps maybe a row or two off. Here's hoping. This will be my first project that I will have to block and I read on Knitty's website that you shouldn't use heat with acrylic. I thought I'd go cheap and use Bernat softee chunky for the cardi. I guess we'll see if it really turns out cheaper than what I could buy at the store. I think right now I have only used and will probably only use about 4 skeins of yarn for this project. I don't know what possessed me to think that I needed 7 and yet I bought 8. I guess I can make a few other things with the excess yarn...perhaps another sweater. I have contemplated making the ballet top in Loop-D-Loop but I haven't looked at it yet. I think for right now I better stick to the project at hand or else DD will have grown too much or will no longer need the sweater because she has graduated college. Why is it sometimes so hard to finish what we start? I guess it really is the journey and not the destination. Weird...I would have thought otherwise.

FIBER!!! Mmmmm

I've always heard that we all need more fiber in our diets. I just got some but I don't think it's what they meant. I bought some yarn from someone's stash on Ravelry and I forgot to ask if she or anyone smoked. Oops! My bad. Other than that it all worked out great but note to self... ask next time.

Irritation!

Irritation thy name is mine! Or something like that. I am thoroughly irritated as I have just started my irregular rib pullover for DS and had only the sleeves and collar left to do. As I have never pieced together a sweater in this manner. I tried to guess while adjusting sizing for DS. The sweater in the picture is large and not fitted while my WIP fits tightly. I wonder if by some chance after finishing the sleeves and collar if the sweater will somehow stay stretched out. As for now the ribs all cling together tightly. Would blocking the sweater have any effect? AAAAARGH!!!! Though it has only been a week or so since I began this WIP I suppose I should not be so frustrated. I suppose I could frog the whole thing and start over. I have suspicions that my sleeve holes are not large enough. CAN ANYTHING ELSE GO WRONG?!!! Maybe I'll just finish it and should it not fit my cutest little one than I shall give it to the next best person who would be my nephew. Though, he would not look so cute in it because it is neither his style nor his demeanor. I hope it works out. I suppose this is one of those growing moments where I say I learned a lesson or something and I'm the better for it. That epiphany will hit in about 6 years when next I attempt to adjust a sweater size so drastically. Or, perhaps never!!!

New WIP

I started a new WIP this weekend. I don't know why...I have seen other people's blogs and Rav pages with five or six WIP's and I think...Why? But now I have become one of those people. I am understanding the reason why people have multiple WIP's. I got bored with the sweater pattern I was making for DD and started to thumb through my library book. I have found that some of the patterns on my queue I have been able to acquire from the library. Who knew? I recently checked out Teva Durham's Loop-D-Loop and so I started a sweater for DS who is very smallish so I thought I could finish it this weekend. I realize yet again that I am very fond of instant gratification and so since the pattern was only for a one size fits most men or boyfriend sloppy on the girl size...I have had to size down the pattern and make notes so that the sleeves are the same. Not instant gratification. The pattern is irregular rib raglan with toggle and it is a cute sweater which will look adorable on my DS however resizing it has been challenging as I am very linear and need too many instructions. The sweater in itself is simple, the problem I am having is with the sleeves...and the fact that I will shortly run out of yarn so I may have to frog a bag I made earlier to finish it in dye lot. Somehow the sleeves don't transfer sizes in my mind. Oh, well, the book is full of strange looking hairstyles and some very severe looking models but the patterns are interesting. Though I like many of the patterns I think I am put off by the weird hair and "deer in the headlights" facial expressions so that I don't want to make them. I would probably only consider four of the patterns to make. The others are not my style or just plain ugly. As for my WIP, I am about 70% finished with only the sleeves, collar, and construction left. I hope it looks as cute on DS as I envisioned.

Progress...I think

I have been working on my WIP Starsky Jr and found that about midway through the back in the sleeve shaping I failed to do one decrease. I certainly didn't feel like frogging seven inches of work and then trying to find my place. Forget that! So, I guess I'll see what happens when I finish the front panels. I am trying to figure out how to dec the front so that the pattern matches up. I am new to this so I am keeping my fingers crossed. I also read ahead in the pattern as is suggested and found myself totally confused. The kind of confused when you just glance at something and it looks like advanced physics. That was me last night but it could have been lack of sleep. So far I have finished the back panel and am working on the left front panel of which I am about eight or nine inches into. I hope it works out.