Knitter's UFO Anonymous 1

I'm back on blogger & the blogs -after a long run around

2009-04-29T23:46:00.002+09:30

So glad to see latest posts here - I had tried to get back into my dashboard for a couple yrs. Kept getting caught in a loop each time.

Shel from yarn delirious

update Aug09: looks like my "name" was shortened to Delirious once I was able to get into my dashboard again, lol.

Helloooo

2009-07-17T02:33:00.003+09:30

Your socks are lovely!

Pink Camo? I must have some of that! I think I'll go over to Joanne's today and see if they still have any of it. Thanks!

Camo socks

2009-06-09T11:22:00.003+09:30

Well, didn't think I would ever got around to finishing something, but I did. And I'd probably finish a whole slew of things if I would pick them up, they are very close to being done, but I got a little bit bored of working on them. Bad me, I know.
But enough about that. More about this :

They are my camo socks, I made them for my roommate. In honor of the hilarious show "Redneck Weddings". Those people sure love their camouflage, even on their wedding dresses from time to time. So how better to get into the spirit then to knit a little lace sock. I found the pattern in a book and changed it a little on the foot. Make it more interesting.
I forgot to write down the brand name of the yarn. But I found it at Joann's. It knits very easy and comes in interesting colors (pink camo for one)
I Like the result. Socks are comfy... maybe my roommate doesn't know they finished and I can keep them :)

UFO Blog in 2009

2008-12-12T20:27:00.002+10:30

I have to apologise to everyone for not being a good bloger this year. Many of my family have been seriously ill, and I have had 6 interstate trips.

If you would like to keep this going - once a ufoer, always a ufoer in my case - I would be happy to keep in contact with you all, or indeed welcome new members. We could have monthly challenges to make it a bit more interesting.

Please let me know by comment or email joanmahony@yahoo.com.au
Seasons greetings to everyone

2008-06-26T05:51:00.004+09:30

2008-03-12T10:00:00.004+10:30

Ufo extraordinaire's holiday projects

2008-03-10T20:31:00.004+10:30

My apologies to everyone that I have been absent from bloggerland for so long. We have had many serious health problems with various members of my family. We have just returned from a short stay in our unit on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. We went so we could check up on my father and mother. Mum is nearly 86 and now is in a care hostel.

Even though we were only going for 10 days, I optimistically packed lots of UFO's. Holiday time means lots of knitting and craft time - right? I put in quite a variety of knits, sewing and embroidery, so I wouldn't get bored with any one thing. As usual, I spent so much time packing craft essentials that I didn't take other essentials such as shampoo. Must get the priorities right.

Here are all the projects I took. Lucky there is a weight allowance on the plane or I might have taken more (ever the optimist)

Funny how there is a lot less time to do craft work when busily catching up with family and friends. I made some progress on the blue baby sweater, finished the blue hat, and progressed the light green baby cardi. I also did more blanket stitch on the applique project. I had hoped to work on the beaded lace scarf, and the chocolate shawl, but didn't get much time where I could concentrate fully on knitting. I took the smocking project to my sister's embroidery class, but barely got started. I missed going to the patchwork class to sew up the pink bag, as it clashed with hubby's reunion with old school friends.

However, by hook or by crook I had to finish Mum's pink cardi, as I didn't want to bring it back home and have to post it.

TAA DAA

OK - I guess I have to confess that I am not getting any better with my UFO problem. I have heaps of projects lurking. Cast-on-itis is hard to cure. Are any of you doing better in the finishing department?

Finally!

2007-11-08T05:33:00.000+10:30

The Hempathy short fingered gloves are finished. This was one,long, hot and Summer and a fiery early Fall.

I'm hoping to finish the Pi shawl,Gretchen, before Spring. The TrekkingXXL red boot socks were my only other knitting in the hot weather. Tiny victories!

It's Been Too Long!

2007-07-17T06:14:00.000+09:30

It has been way too long since I've posted but our busy lives just keep getting busier, or so it seems. Above it the Prairie Shawl from Cheryl Oberle's book, Folk Shawls. I used Rowan Plaid and size 11 needles. I really enjoyed knitting this and was surprised that it didn't take as long as I thought it would.

Here's a pair of socks knit with Opal in their Rainforest collection (Owl, to be exact). I used size 1 needles for these babies and that's just about as small a needle as I can stand. Mostly, I use size 2's for my socks and they seem to work out well for me. These were a gift for my DIL and she loved them.

I finally completed the Aran baby blanket too, which was a very long time coming, let me tell you. I used Shelridge Farms merino which was a dream to knit with and size 8 needles. My sweet little 2nd granddaughter is snuggling under this one as we speak!

I've been crocheting quite a bit but since this is a knitter's UFO blog, I'll stick with the knitting. All the best to everyone and I hope you're enjoying your crafting and your summer, if it's summer where you live!

Cheers, Laura

Drops Design Beginnings

2007-06-25T01:14:00.000+09:30

Blogger's really make it easy to do this.. Yippie!

Finished the Santa Cruz Hat out of Noro

2007-03-20T16:19:00.000+10:30

I had to change the link as the blog has moved on.

You can see it here in my knitting album:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/91876692@N00/

I love this hat pattern and will make many more. It's lot's of fun.

Gretchen

2007-06-25T01:23:00.000+09:30

My 100% silk Pi shawl is actually looking like a big bowl right now; this picture shows the progress up to the time that I received the new lace addi lace needles and put them on the shawl. Oh yes, I do love these needles. I'll save my pennies to have more, no doubt about it.

So, that's it.. my four projects, and I do pledge to work on each one of them everyday but the Drops will go slower. An in the round Alpaca/Silk sweater through summer is going to get a little hot but I promise one round a day on that one. You all have fun with your UFOs. Take Care!

Red trekking xxl sock for DH

2007-06-25T01:17:00.000+09:30

This is actually up to the gusset and waiting patiently for construction to resume.

Green Hempathy Glove progress

2007-06-25T01:13:00.000+09:30

I haven't been knitting much at all.

2007-06-25T00:54:00.000+09:30

It's summer time here and before that , of course, it was spring. The garden called and so did cleaning out the junk in the studio part of the house.

This isn't quite whining yet, so I'll stop. I finished a green glove and put it on my blog but here is a piccie. This glove is made of Hempathy yarn. It's a tiny bit like knitting with a gentle feeling string, plied, but it's a very nice blend of cotton, hemp and model, for a little memory. Also, Gretchen the Pi Shawl and the Drops Aran Isle sweater are on their way after new needles arrived for G, and a frogging for D. So my pledge is to make daily progress on those three things, and a boot sock for the DH.

I'm going to try to upload pictures of the small progress here. Next post, but all of them are on my knitting Flickr cage on my blog if I don't succeed. It's rather early for me so anything can, and probably will, happen. I hope you have been having good luck with your knitting and with life. Ta! =o)

Hmm.

2007-05-22T11:03:00.000+09:30

No new updates for quite a while, yeah? Two months. Well I don't have any pictures, but I did finish a pair of slippers for Mum for Mother's Day. I'm not sure if those count though because they weren't really a UFO, I cast on for them at the beginning of the month and finished the second one the day before Mother's Day.

Even better news is that I've been developing my knitting skills (when I first joined this blog, I could only knit rectangular things, and only in garter stitch. I have come a long way.) So that's exciting.

I got one of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's books, Knitting Rules, and it's so awesome! I really love it, it's totally hilarious (of course my mum made fun of me for laughing at a knitting book, but you know what? She's not a knitter, either.) I guess it's one of the older ones, I reckon she's got a new one coming but I don't know anything about it.

I've been on a giant knitting craze lately; spent all my birthday money on yarn, to my mother's dismay; bought several new knitting books, and new pairs of needles; figured out a few stitches and decided on a large Harry Potter Gryffindor scarf (Azkaban style) as my next big project. Maybe. That's if I don't cast on for some hot pink slippers before I get the right size needles for the scarf.

I really did want to wait to post until I could get some pictures, but my camera's broken so that might not happen for a while. :(

Some progress

2007-03-23T19:13:00.000+10:30

I did finish this sweater for Mum, though the purl 3 together through the back of the loop, and the decreases drove me crazy. I like the effect of this pattern but I think there is a simpler version somewhere. It is fine knitted in the round, just the back and forth that is hard.

I have been washing and fixing baby clothes, and mostly knitting on the shawl for the new baby.

Finished one.. One to go

2007-02-24T11:25:00.000+10:30

shortfingered gloves

Those above have been sent off to my DD2 to the North.

I have a Gretchen Pi shawl.....

two Noro Santa Cruz one skein hats....

trekkerXXl boot socks, here.... the picture is of the colorway I bought a few months ago.

a Moo hat, for which there is no picture, in farrow rib, which is also the only true UFO as it was left over from last year, and a....

Drops Aran sweater for DH- since I abandoned the errata filled pattern....

and two more short fingered gloves, see top photog, on the needles.

I think that should take the rest of the year, and in the case of the Aran Isle, two years.

There, now I've declared war on the stash. Will it let me live? tee hee

Long time no blog

2007-02-19T17:45:00.000+10:30

I haven't blogged for quite a while but now that school has started hopefully I will be a bit more regular with my blogging.

I have finished a few things lately so if you would like a look I have put pickies onto my blog.

Some of the finished articles have been UFO's for a while so I'm glad to get them finished.

Joan do you recognise this yarn? It's the one that we got when we went shopping in Adelaide. It was great having a look at Barb's shop and miss 4 still talks about Merle and the walk on the beach.

I have a few more UFO's to knock on the head before I have surgery on one of my hands whenever that is. The public hospital waiting lists are very long over our way.

Until next time keep on knitting.

Cathy

Frogging in 2 parts

2007-02-05T17:44:00.000+10:30

My yarn is all over the place, and not just my place. I have a box of yarn over at Michelle's house. Why? I don't know. It's just there. (Well, sometimes she needs to 'hide' new yarn from the husband and then it "belongs to my collection". As understanding as he is, unless you are a yarnaholic, understanding will only go so far.) So, with my yarn all over the place and my projects all over the place, I continue to frog. This time it's a sweater that I started a long time ago. And it was the first one I started, didn't really check the gauge too closely, changed some things around in the pattern and took really bad notes. Not that it matters because I can't find the notes anyway. So, this is the next of my projects to get frogged. But, like the title suggests, it is a frogging in 2 parts. I had finished the back and I can't find it. I think it might be at Michelle's house. I had started the front and at least that part got frogged.
This sudden frogging need comes from feeling a little bit guilty for wanting to cast on for rogue. (Still haven't done it yet.)

Hi there ;)

2007-02-03T10:29:00.000+10:30

It's been a very long time since my last post here (umm...a year...and a half?) Shame on me! I was surprised to discover that I had not been removed from the blog (which would have been quite understandable) and I'm glad, because I want to start blogging about knitting again.

A couple of weeks ago I finished a very simple but pretty scarf. It's striped with a combination of black and dark and light blues. I don't have any pictures of it right now.

Then I cast on for another scarf; a soft, fuzzy red one using yarn I've had for a while. I've just run out of yarn for it, so I may take a trip to LYS for more this afternoon.

No patterns, as usual. I tend to improvise, since I'm not that great yet. Ah well.

One new thing is that I've learned how much easier it is to get knitting done if I take it to school with me. =)

Great start

2007-01-29T16:09:00.000+10:30

I am so proud of myself. First of all, I had the courage to open up my UFO spreadsheet. Turns out, I only had 18 UFOs. Then I pinned my ears back (figuratively speaking) and finished knitting the green scarf. The one I was supposed to give her for Christmas. It's a good thing she's got a birthday coming up in March.

I made it with Peruvian Baby Silk on size 5. The lace comes from some random patterns out of a book.

But that is not all I did. I decided to be brave and I frogged 2, yes TWO projects I knew I wasn't going to finish.
The purple one is a corset, that I didn't take enough time / pay enough attention to the gauge. I learned my lesson. No way it was going to fit. And I wasn't too happy with the decreases. Althoughh, had it fit, I wouldn't have cared. But, it wasn't going to fit, so I used the bad decreases as another reason to frog. The light blue-ish one was going to be a diagonal baby blanket. But it went too slow.
Just not having fun working on it. So I got brave, frogged both in one sitting. I am very proud of myself. And now my UFO list is down to 15.

Not for long, I will be casting on for rogue. But, this weekend (another reason I am proud of me) I've been working on my sock. I got to the fun part, turning the heal. Once I get to knitting the foot, I'm sure I'll put it aside again.

Fun fur??

2007-01-28T13:32:00.000+10:30

Yay first post! thanks for inviting me to the team blog!
so im proud to say that I am almost finished with the socks i started for my mom which is amazing for me considering i'm an enormous procrastinator and i have a.d.d. when it comes to finishing projects. but i am bound and determined to finish these socks for her b-day. :)

anywho i need some input. For christmas my aunt gave me different fun fur yarns and i cant decide what to do with them. I want something that won't bore me to death like a simple garter or stockinette scarf, but fun fur is so hard to work with in any complicated patterns. any suggestions?

Trying to post to the new blogger

2007-01-25T11:42:00.000+10:30

Ok let's see if this works.

I've gotten halfway through the fingerless mitts but they weren't an UFO. One down and one to go.

Joan, they didn't give you a choice but hopefully we can all post here.

My resolution

2007-01-21T11:23:00.000+10:30

Oh boy, I may have mentioned before I started a spreadsheet with all my UFOs. I was afraid to open it, but I know there are about 20 items in there. Well, to get to a good start in 2007, I have picked these nine UFOs to work and seriously make an attempt to ... work on some more. (I would say finish, but who would I be kidding.)

Let's look at what I've got, the pick blurb is clopatis, below to it a multi-colored lap-ket. Next to that are a lace shawl(-ish) and a sock (second of the pair). In the little ziplock bag is a green skinny scarf (Was supposed to be a christmas present for my mom. Oops) and next to that is my fake fur wrap sans fur. The other off-white think is hopeful, a no seem sweater. The orangy thing will be my ribbi cardi. And finally, there is a ball of yarn with some needles. Soon I will cast on for rogue. Again, I won't kid myself nor anybody else, I will be casting on for rogue. Soon. I hope to maybe finish the skinny scarf, it's almost done. But I can't make any promises, I know I am weak.
However, like I said, these are the UFOs that I will be working in 2007. Maybe finish a few. But definitely make progress. And I hope I will have the strenght to rip a few of the other 11 projects in my spreadsheet. (Yes, some will need to be ripped, I know that, I am slowly making peace with that fact. Maybe next month I'll give it a try.)