It's Finishtober: Part 4

This October, I had three projects that had been sitting around half completed, that I wanted to finish. However, I was a bit realistic and set the goal of finishing ony two of them before the end of the month. A goal I was happy to meet by finishing my Husband's Birthday sweater, and the Swirl Shawl. Sadly though, I did not get much work done on the crystaline shawl, but I think sometime next year I will set anoother month for finishing, and that will be the first project I work on.

Now, with that said, I have to announce next month's challenge. I think I may go with a yarn brand that I have stashed away, but never go around to using. Next month will be "Norovember", meaning that I will knit with nothing but yarns by Noro. I will especially be knitting with the Silk Garden Light and the fun and sparkly Auroura.

I have decided to knit a top down cardigan with the Slik Garden Light, but need to do some research yet as to what I want to knit with the Auroura, which may be a bit harder because I only have six balls of the Auroura as opposed to the tewlve balls of the Silk Garden Light I have in my stash. Whatever I come up with will be a great project though.

It's Finishtober: Part 3

It started back in April, and then I got tired of how tedious it became to knit each little section, bind it off, and then cast on the next little section, that I set it aside and let it haunt me for the next six months. like the Tell-Tale Heart, it sat in my basket and reminded me that I need to finish the Swirl Shawl.

So, after finishing Husband's Birthday Sweater, I picked up the shawl and began to work on it again. The process was slower than I would have liked, but once I found my rythm, I noticed that the piece was rather enjoyable to work on.

It blocked up nicely, and really opened up to it's full width and length. I am definately going to enjoy wearing this out and about.

With the completion of this shawl however, I am not left with much time to complete the Crystaline Shawl. But, it will be interesting to see how far I get into it.

It's Finishtober!: Part 2

After seven long months of this sweater haunting me, I am pleased to say that I have finally finished the sweater. I bought and started this kit back in March of this year (Bought the kit from the stand run by Philosophers Wool at the Sewing and Stitchery Expo), but got tired of working on it when I found several other projects that I really wanted to make more. However, like a really annoying and naggy mother, it was sitting there reminding me that I needed to put down the other projects and work on finishing up that sweater.

With the sudden cold weather and my Husband's Birthday looming on the horizon, I decided that this was going to be the first project that needed to get done foy my personal challenge for this month (the Renton Knitters KAL helped as well to inspire this challenge).

Anyhow, I am glad to finish this project and look forward to moving on to the next one. Perhaps it will be finished in a short of time as the last one.

And.........

Happy Birthday Husband!

It's Finishtober!

Every knitter has them, those projects that are hanging around the house. Stuffed in bags and boxes, taking up space, and generally haunting us . The spooky thing is that we allow them to build up and sit around until we work on them again.

That is why I plan to finish at least two of the projects that I have sitting around that I have been working on for the last year. At least I only have three I have to work on. Then I can make room for the other things I want to work on, and perhaps leave half unfinished until next October.

1. The Faire Isle sweater I have had going since March.
2. The Swirl shawl (AKA the shawl of insanity)
3. The Crystaline Shawl (AKA that shawl I want to finish. but the yarn annoys me).

Lets see how much I get done!