Last Monday I showed you the shiny side of crafting. I presented myself well behaved in proper clothes which I made for my garment-collection. Lovely sweaters and skirts in spring inspired colours, showcasing yellow, lilac, and green. But my dear readers, this is only one truth… Because behind the light there is darkness, and the flashy surface arises from chaotic depths. Today I will grant you a glimpse into the hidden corners of my soul and you will see me rolling around happily in a sea of unfinished cardigans and sweaters. And there are a lot of unfinished projects. A lot. A lot more than I will admit or show (there are more hidden in the sleeping room – perhaps I will reveal them in another post)
The upside of my huge number of unfinished projects is, that most are wearable with my new clothes from the before mentioned collection.
Let’s start with the confession – I will begin with the nearly finished and end with a just started project.
The blue cardigan is an old friend. You have seen it multiple times as I want to write down the pattern for publishing and it is still not finished: the buttons must be sewn on. Every time I want to get it done some knitting jumps into my hands and I am immediately distracted all buttons forgotten. The pattern is a self-drafted bottom-up cardigan with bell sleeves. To be honest, my fingers are itching to re-knit it again in beige yarn for summer.
Second project is the lavender wrap cardigan where I had to re-knit the hem. This cardigan is nearly finished only some rows of the second sleeve are missing and this no longer poses a problem as I found more of this yarn in a box.
For the third cardigan the blame goes entirely to @blezyn I have nothing to do with it… Naturally, I am joking and its exactly the other way round. I saw a wonderful stripe crochet cardigan on @blezyn and knew I must crochet it too. Which I did. I used a pattern by Katie Jones Knit which is free but written completely incomprehensible. Thankfully I found four videos which explain the jacket step by step. So far, I have finished both parts of the hexagon jacket and I now need to widen the back and front with some rows. The sleeves with a lovely fan/shell pattern are next and then the dreaded sewing of yarn-ends.
Next one: the stripey sweater, also familiar. The sweater has two brutal tasks still open: first sewing in the millions of yarn-ends and second the collar which I never have knitted before. With the latter I got one step ahead as I found a simple explanation for a collar knitted in garter stitch. I guess I will try this out… someday :-DDDD
The grey beast is the next. This cardigan is knit in moss stitch (or pearl stitch not sure about the English nomenclature) which I find hugely uncomfortable for my fingers. I am not very motivated to go on as I overdid the boxiness meaning it is much too wide. For now, the sweater must wait for a second sleeve and for me to sew it together and to secure the yarn ends.
And tada… I cast on another striped sweater. Clever or? Before I finished the first one or had a clue how to make the collar for the first one. Now I have two unfinished striped sweaters which await collar knitting (and in case of this lighter one also the sleeve knitting).
And as if I did not have enough projects open, I thought why not cast on another lavender cardigan which will fit so nicely into my collection? Thought and done. I used the pattern Ramona light from Elizabeth Smith which I made some years ago and which I wear fairly often. As so often I completely ignored yarn recommendation and gauge and calculated weirdly concluding that size 2 in my much thicker yarn will fit.
For your (and mine) suspension: In only three rows I will separate the sleeves from the body and will know if the cardigan fits. We will see next week :-DDDD
But what is one lavender project when you can have more. Remember the lavender wrap from above, the one where I thought to not have enough yarn? I have a box full of it. An old eBay found of pure wool which now shows to be very brittle and prone to rip. What better idea then to cast on another project with it. This time a crochet cardigan which will have peplum.
And because it will get summer now (allegedly) I stored away all shawls. But the weather is unreliable and cold, so why not knit a triangle shawl? Yes, why not…? Perhaps I will have it ready for next year’s heatwave :-D If you live in colder climate or are nearing winter you may want to investigate the free pattern from Loop London. It’s an easy pattern in garter stitch with cute tassels.
I kind of hear you alternating between laughing and crying and believe me you do this rightfully. I have no clue what happened in the last weeks that I started so many projects (to be fair I had a lot of headaches – medication is not as nice as I thought, leads to less intense headaches but more frequent). Actually I should create four more paintings till beginning of Juni, and another exhibition which will be end of May is still not finished…. Ahhhhhhhh… so stressful, better I sit down and knit some more :-D
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You are braver than I, I would worry whether the yarns in the stripes cardigan would all have the same tension 😂. I like the cardigans and they go so well with your collection. I still have my perfect cardigan waiting for me to work out the sleeve caps, those and the button band are all that needs doing now.
Arne and Carlos are doing a spring-a-long, crochet flowers and knitted blocks. I did think about the crochet flowers for some yarn I already have, but to be honest it is not my style. I am intrigued by the blocks, though and they may be what I use to practice two-colour work ... but I can't see that happening until the cold weather starts to arrive in the autumn.
I have finished my socks, well, as much as I am going to do with this pair. I have been practising with my new carbon needles and trying samples for my next socks ... but really, there is too much to do in the garden to spend too much time knitting 😂
Not sure if I would call this brave... more reckless as I did not wasted one thought to the possible problem of different tensions. 🤣 I somehow assumed that the yarns will adapt mysteriously into one uniform tension (and they kind of did it) But I would love to see your perfect cardigan and how it fits <3
Crocheting small items like flowers or amigurumi ias also not to my liking. But I thought crochet could be a nice change for my fingers (and I found so many lovely patterns. I am still secretly tempted by this tow patterns..
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/aurora-wrap-cardigan
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/guldek
but starting even more projects....:-DDD
Oh wow!! Socks are finished this fabulous. Perhaps a needlework post of yours is needed.
But I understand you with the garden. I am at the moment torn between studio and garden and with both there is so much to do. But I have to stop myself with the gardening as it is only a hobby.
I am alreday on the hunt for slugs - they are back. What are you up to, some new plants (perhaps somethin experimental)?
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oh my god there are too many projects at the same time, I think my obsessive mind could not handle so much, I really have to finish what I start before starting something else 😅 I admire you
So funny as I have no clue how I could stop to cast on :-DDDD (I am also finishing some things, but I subito start another project) Perhaps we need to make a knd of futurustic mind-exchange 😁
Girlfriend, you have so many cardigans to finish. hahahaha, one day you are going to get lost in a sea of cardigans. Let me know so I can come and get you!
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Yes, come over and lets craft together :-) I really have no idea whats happening, perhaps its spring which encouranges me to start so many projects. THere are so many beautiful patterns... I even could start some more, because I love the al so :-DDD
Thank you for the ladytoken. I never heard of this 😮
Yes, come over and lets craft together :-) I really have no idea whats happening, perhaps its spring which encouranges me to start so many projects. THere are so many beautiful patterns... I even could start some more, because I love the al so :-DDD
Thank you for the ladytoken. I never heard of this 😮
I have so many projects myself that I routinely sit and don't know where to start. I feel your pain.
Those are all some pretty impressive pieces of clothing! Very cool, very artsy, and really great looking.
Thank you so much for the lovely compliment and good to hear I am not alone with my huge pile of unifinished projects. What kind of projects are you working on?
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Wow great always coming up with great content and ideas thank for sharing @neumannsalva
I'll call you "compulsive project starter" lol. Those look like several unfinished projects. I don't know if it happens to you, but after I finish (finally) something that I had pending for a long time, I feel a lot of fulfillment. So I think, why did it take me so long to get to this point? They are the mysteries of life I suppose.
Hopefully we'll see some of these cute outfits complete in the next few days ❤️.
😂😂 I can imagine you swimming in a pile of unfinished projects. It's the excitement to get to something new that always leads to this😂😂 I love your version of the hexagon crochet. I can't wait to see the finished look