Since I seem to have gotten my knitting mojo back, I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at my WIPs and see how many I have. Turns out I have seven! I thought it was going to be more, actually 😂
From left to right:
- A Haapsalu shawl with the Hepatica pattern that I started in the spring
- The White Karen lace dress from Lacelegance that I mentioned in a previous post
- A Haapsalu shawl with the ear of grain pattern that I started in 2018 after a very dear friend of mine told me that she had gotten engaged to a guy who farms grain. I wanted to have it ready for her wedding, which was in the summer of 2019, but oh well. At least I made a few bits and bobs for the happy couple's little girl when I was invited to the baby shower last summer.
- My most recent WIP: the Baggy Tweedy Beanie, designed by Siri Anne Ystad-Deglum. I was winding some skeins of yarn into balls recently and decided that the skein of Merino Tweed yarn from Kettu Yarns in the colourway 'Foxy' which I had ordered last year really wanted to become a beanie. So I looked on Ravelry for fingering weight beanies and came across this one, which even has 'tweedy' in the name! Of course I had to cast it on, because the weather is getting cooler and this colour is just perfect for autumn.
- Christmas socks in the Vanilla Latte pattern from Virginia Rose-Jeanes. I ordered two hand-dyed skeins of yarn from an English indie dyer called Laura who has a webshop called Joy to the Wool last year: one is this Christmasy colourway called 'Holly and Ivy', which came with a solid red mini skein for the heel and cuff and toes; and the other one is a Halloween colourway called 'Joy to the Wooo-l', which is black and purple and came with a solid black mini skein. I decided to use this very simple pattern to let the green and red stripes shine and I am hoping that starting these in August will help me to finish them by Christmas :D
- One of the Squirrel Fun mittens from Knittinglotta, which I started in January. This is probably going to be a longer and super fiddly project, because there are something like 80 stitches per round and these are made with very small needles. Lotta has said that having so many stitches is the only way she can make her patterns so detailed (and they really are, you can tell that she used to be a graphic designer!), which is fair but it also means that the mittens are going to take me a while to finish.
- The Great British Baking Shawl 2, which I started making last year as a KAL by Mary Annarella. I honestly don't know, but I ran out of steam during the last clue! I literally only have 3/4 of the last clue to finish, so hopefully I will manage to power through and be able to wear this gorgeous (and hella expensive) shawl this autumn already.
I also had the Wayne pullover that I started last spring as a WIP for the longest time, but I finally decided to frog it last weekend. I sold the unused balls of yarn and will use the yarn I have left from the unfinished sweater to make socks or something.
Oh and I actually finished a very spontaneous WIP that I started last November a few days ago, but I think I will write more about that one later because it deserves its own post.
