{"id":288,"date":"2010-02-11T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:08:34","slug":"stop-needling-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Stop Needling me &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any knitter with more than one pair of needles will have more than one project on the go at any one time. If they don&#8217;t then you should either hire them to finish projects for you might want to have them checked into a clinic to seek some professional help. As for me, well, I&#8217;m the classic definition of a knitter. I have at least 5 things on needles almost all the time. One of my favorites times in my day is when I finish one thing and can cast on a new project. Its kind of line being at the starting line of the 100m finals in the Olympics. So this post is an update of what&#8217;s on my needles at the current time and what&#8217;s coming up.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The bias scarf is about 90% finished right now and I should be able to finish it today because as soon as i finish this post it&#8217;s<em> KNITTIN&#8217; TIME!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>My Adam&#8217;s Rib sweater is about 80% finished. I have to do the sleeves and then I&#8217;m done. The good thing is that I am knitting it top down so there&#8217;s very little finishing work involved. I have also been spit felting the yarn as I go along, so I&#8217;ll only have to darn in ends where I changed colors. Look for the pattern for this on Ravelry within the week.<\/li>\n<li>Anne&#8217;s coat is almost ready to be finished. I say almost because I have to decide just how to do the band. I have a couple ideas and may have to try them both and keep whichever one I like better. Yarn might be ab issue as well. I have enough to finish it with the same one I used, but if I go with a more detailed finish I might have to go with a different choice.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quite a few years ago (almost 10 now), shortly after I learned how to knit continental style, I made a Lopi fair aisle sweater. I loved the design but not the yarn. When I got to the color part of the pattern, I first started carrying the second color after every 4th stitch. Once I learned how to knit continental with my left and traditional with my right for fair aisle, I started carrying the second color after every 2nd stitch. This caused a pucker in the sweater so I frogged it down to the armpits (where the color starts) and put it aside. I&#8217;m thinking of finishing it now.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_291\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0281.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-291\" title=\"IMG_0281\" src=\"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0281-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0281-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0281-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0281-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The back of the forest green sweater ... <\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have a forest green sweater that I have designed and am knitting for a friend. It&#8217;s actually the first one that will come out of Barrington Knits as an official product so that should be completed very soon.<\/li>\n<li>Last year I started a cabled sweater with Ultra Alpaca yarn. I don&#8217;t have enough to finish it and want to do the sleeves together, so that is sitting on a set of needles right now. I will be going out a little later to see if I can find the yarn to finish it.<\/li>\n<li>I have started a special piece for a friend which I can&#8217;t get into details about (or I&#8217;d have to kill you) right now. That will be worked on over the next two day and I&#8217;m hoping to be able to give it to them this weekend.<\/li>\n<li>I have a total of 3 other projects that are one needles that I might frog and steam so I can re-use the yarn for other things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So those are the projects that I am working on right now. I have quite a few planned for the very near future &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>With the Olympics kicking off tomorrow here in Vancouver, I would love to start a project I have had in mind to commemorate the lone Jamaican athlete at the games.<\/li>\n<li>I have some chunky sock yarn that keeps calling to me, so I will definitely be doing something with that. I will use it as an opportunity to do both socks on the circulars at the same time &#8211; should be interesting.<\/li>\n<li>I have been talking about a heritage blanket for quite some time now, and after seeing the one that Carolyn made, I will definitely be starting the design of my own with the casting on to follow soon after. Here&#8217;s a link to the one on the <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedbraid.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/24\/crunchy-snow-spread\/\">Twisted Braid&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>After doing the Bias scarf, I have decided I would like one for myself in the same yarn, but I plan on doing it differently. Obviously, being a warmer scarf, I&#8217;ll have to do it soon as spring is here (even though the Winter Olympics start tomorrow) and I won&#8217;t get much time to wear it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even though there&#8217;s more, I will have to stop here as this list should take a couple of weeks to clear up. It will never be totally clear though because as I finish one, I cast on another &#8211; or two \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Hugzzz \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any knitter with more than one pair of needles will have more than one project on the go at any one time. 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