finish more knitting projects

I’ve been trying for years now to knit myself a tallit (prayer shawl) that I like. My requirements are that it not be hot, that it be of some material such that it isn’t a disaster if I sweat in it, and that it NOT look too “scarfy.” Some early attempts did look like scarves…. one looked more like a rug. None felt right to me, so I never put tzitzit (ritual fringes) on them.

Now I think I’m onto something. I’m knitting a nice blue cotton hand-dyed yarn in the Old Shale lace pattern, and gradually narrowing it towards the center (where my neck will be) by knitting on smaller and smaller needles. WHen I pass the halfway point, I’ll start increasing needle size again. VERY happy with the results so far (about a foot long) and well, we’ll see.

Anyhow, a nice little private project going nicely.

I hate it when I finish a knitting project and am unhappy with the results!

I just finished knitting a tallit in an offwhite silk/wool blend and it seems lifeless.

I’ll let it sit awhile and see if it grows on me or calls out for something other than ripping….

of the beautiful beige wool and soy yarn…will you ever be done in time for me to wear you?

My hat has become a trial and error project! I just wanted a warm hat!

I bought loads o wool for a fab n easy jumper, but im scared of starting it now!!

Also, the gloves for my sister have become mutants. Horrors. i’m afriad of them…..

Why the hell can’t i just finish something?? :S

It’s an over-amped rainbow, with long vertical stripes. Purple-neonlime-yellow-red-orange-skyblue-violet.

No idea who’s going to get it. But it’s fun.

I finished the blanket that I started on the train trip last fall. It’s a beautiful multicolored wool blanket, just the right size to keep on the couch to snuggle under when watching movies or taking a nap!

I still have to weave in the loose ends and block it, but the knitting part is DONE. It was a fun one, and I was a little sad to finish it.

Cat and I were home watching movies, and I started a little scarf in lace-weight Icelandic yarn, in an “Old Shale” pattern. I have something larger in mind eventually, but I wanted to see if I could get into “automatic” on this pattern. Jury’s still out, but the scarf is going to be very pretty. When I get a chance, I’ll post a photo.

I have picked out my next Hat Victim. A young friend told me she “loves hats!”

Better yet, she likes COLOR, not like those pokey boys that always want black or brown.

Heh!

I’ve rediscovered knitting, and am having a GRAND time! Knitted a too-small hat that has to be redone (oh, the pain! NOT!) and am working on one big throw for myself and a Project Linus blanket. The throw for myself is in a yummy yarn, but the hat has to be in superwash wool (it’s for my nearly-26-yr-old son who will throw it in the washer regardless) and of course the Project Linus is dreadful acrylic (but a great color.)

I am so happy to find knitters! Can I be on the team? Please? Please?

Maybe I’ll get better at them someday, but for now I hate making socks. Knit, knit, frog, curse, knit, curse, frog, knit, knit. By the time I get one sock done I’m so exhausted and frustrated that I don’t pick up the needles again for a month. Oh well, this pair will get done eventually.