the jkc project

TV

I'm probably behind the rest of the western world in this, but yesterday I discovered the TV section at Blockbuster.  In the past 18 hours I've watched 6 episodes of Grey's Anatomy and 5 episodes of The Office.  The 6th is starting right now.  Therefore, this is going to be short.

Check out the hat:

that will be flying out to Baby Nate later this week.  It's quick completion is directly correlated to the whole obssesive TV thing I mentioned above.

Tonight we're going to a wedding in Connecticut, and between car time and TV time, who knows what might come flying off these needles.  If history is any indication, probably another half finished monstrosity, but I'm really hoping for a pair of fingerless mittens.

Parade of Folly

Because it would be a sin *not* to share the horror show that is my UFO bin with the entire internets.

Remember these? 

Wendy gave me this sock yarn last summer.  That little nub in the corner represents the entirety of my knitting for the 3 weeks we were in Europe last fall.  For shame.

My first jaywalkers:

Quickly put aside under Cara's theory that it's easier to finish a pair if you've got two going at the same time.

And when you actually stop to think about the inherent flogic of the above statement, it's perfectly clear why I now just have 2 pairs of unfinished jaywalkers instead of one finished pair.

That 3rd sock isn't even a jaywalker, I just was drinking and decided I needed something easier to knit on.

Anyway.

This one reared its head recently:

Forestalled by the realization that it might not be prudent to knit a tank in fuzzy silk-mohair.  Because if it's warm enough for a tank, it's too hot for silk-mohair.

And if once weren't enough, here's the same pattern, back when it was called Tivoli:

Check out this brilliant idea.  I knit this in cotton, that the label TOLD ME would shrink.  And so instead of knitting a swatch, washing it and seeing what it would do, I just decided to knit the next biggest size.  Which might be why I've been ignoring it for over a year now.

This one's a perfect example of great concept:

Horrible execution. 

Mittens for my brother, with a great snowflake/skier motiff.  Except that I hadn't yet figured out how to do 2-color knitting.  Hence the tragedy you see above.

This one is the Fleece Artist thrummed mitten kit.

One mitten done, the second will never exist, because in a fit to start spinning, I spun all the thrum fleece on my spindle.

Smart one.

So close:

Yet so far.  Because I still have to knit the second one.  Argh.

Same with this one:

Except that it's WAY more likely I'll knit the second mitten.  This one was clearly a misguided pattern choice.

This was a prototype for a pattern I was going to submit to Knitty:

which will never happen now, because someone submitted something similar, yet much more clever and fashionable.

And My First Sweater:

Before I had ever knit on a circular needle.  The only way this one will ever be knit is if I rip out and start over.  Which wouldn't be a huge deal, since I only got about 4 INCHES up in the first place.

 

And the one project that gives me hope:

I'm getting close on this one, and I'm thinking I might actually like the results.  Small wonder since I used the yarn the pattern called for, knit a swatch and made no alterations to the pattern whatsoever.

There's gotta be a lesson in that somewhere.

Procrastination

You know how sometimes you get a phone call from a friend, and you mean to call them back later that day.

And then you get busy.

And then the next thing you know it's been a week and it's kind of too late to call them back, and besides, you're still busy and it would be a quick call at 8pm from your car after leaving work and picking up the dog and your brain is kind of fried and it would be a bad call anyway, so you decide to call them back over the weekend.

Seems like it's really the best, because you want to be fresh and chipper and not be a total drag on the phone.

And then the next thing you know it's been like a month, and so you want to be able to devote a good hour to the phone call because there's so much you need to catch up on, but where are you going to find an hour, you silly little delusional person??

Well, by "You" I mean "Me".

And by "Phone Call From a Friend" I mean "Blogging".

(And for the record, I also mean "Emails From Friends" and "Phone Calls From Friends".  It wasn't just an analogy.)

So instead of trying to do the big wrap up post and explain where I've been and what I've been doing, I'm just going to pick up the phone, spend 5 minutes chatting, and pretend like it hasn't been a month since you've seen or heard a peep from me.

Look: Knitting!

Dishcloths are what you knit when you absolutely can't handle paying attention to anything more difficult.  And you actually want to feel like you're finishing something.  This is my first finished object since Christmas.

Yup.  You read that right.  Christmas.

Actually, I take that back.  I did finish my Olympic Hat.  That brings my 2006 finished objects up to a whopping 2.

I don't even want to count the UFOs. 

Maybe another day.

Puppy!

I'd like you all to meet our new puppy, George:

I haven't been knitting so much these past few weeks.

Can you blame me?