Random Thoughts and an Updated To-Do List

Point Arena is almost done. I'll finish the second sleeve this week and (maybe) put it together this weekend. If it can just stay cold a little longer, I won't have to wait until next winter to wear it.

I haven't worked on my Snowfling mittens for a few weeks because I was working on Irish Moss and Point Arena, although I have decided to line them with a different color. I used orange yarn for the provisional cast on and thought it looked nice with the bright pink so I ordered some Madelinetosh tosh merino light in citrus. I also got a skein for a pair of socks.

Since the Sublime baby cashmere merino silk DK is working out for the mittens, the ONline Linie 33 Cosmo fingering weight will be used for a pair of Snowfling socks. The two skeins of the ONline in teal that were originally intended to line both pairs of mittens will be used either for socks or gloves.

I have many pairs of socks that are ready for retirement so I need to make myself some new socks. I've never knit a pair of toe-up socks. Now seems like a good time. This decision may have been influenced by the unexpected growth of my sock yarn stash.

The overhaul of my old aran sweater isn't going well. Every right side row has cable crosses, which makes the  length reassignment surgery difficult. I didn't expect to be able to make a few snips, pull out the snipped yarn and have a neatly divided piece of knitting but I figured if I was careful, I'd be able to pick up the stitches correctly at the bottom the cable. I've only done half of the front and about half of the cables are messed up. I'll devote one more evening to this and if I can't figure out how to do this, I'll either toss the sweater or frog it and knit another one.

I sold the yarn for Autumn Rose and Strathspey but I bought yarn (Cascade 220 in ivory) for Little Rivers by Alice Starmore.


Updated To-Do list:

1. Finish Point Arena.

2. Finish Snowfling mittens.

3. Fish or cut bait on the old aran.

4. Make a half-hearted effort to work on Fife.

5. Learn how to do toe-up socks.

6. Make a couple of other pairs of socks as well.

7. Figure out what the next big project will be; time to start swatching.