Yarn Traveler

I think that everyone who reads this (all three of you) already know that I relocated to London this October. So as not to clutter up this blog with actual posts non-knitting content I have been documenting our sojourn at stacymcdowell.wordpress.com. Check it out of you’re interested.

However, there is actual knitting content to be documented! I have actually been knitting! Granted, it’s been the same pair of socks for Matt that used to be my work-commute project (according to Ravelry [find me here], I’ve been working on these socks since July [OMG!!!]). One would likely think that these would have to be knee-high, intricately cabled, works of art to be on the needles so long, but alas…I am just a giant slacker. They are plain ol’, toe up, stockinette socks.

Pattern: Universal Toe-Up Sock Formula via Knitty
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici in ‘Firefighter’ (colorway is no longer listed on the website)

I would love to say that they have languished unfinished so long because my knitting attentions were diverted to other, more finished items, but I can’t even make that claim. I am (almost always) a monogamous knitter. A rare breed of knitter, I know!

Since the Great Unraveling of 2007, I have been a one-project knitter. I just need that discipline and focus in order to complete anything. Obviously! It’s taken 5 months to get 70% of the way through a pair of socks! I would however like to point out that in those 5 months I arranged to close up house and move to another freaking country, so hopefully that affords me a little slack.

Once safely arrived in London, apartment found and rented, a few yarn stores scouted…it occurred to me that the one hand knit item that I planned to gift this year was not only incomplete, it was unstarted, and the yarn hadn’t even been bought yet! Unwilling to consider gifting this lucky recipient with something other than a gift of hand knit goodness (the planned pattern and yarn choice are just too perfect!), I was forced to take drastic steps. I started a second project!

Pattern: Shifting Sands by Grumperina
Yarn: Malabrigo Merino Worsted in ‘Paris Night’

I have a goal of 4-inches per day in order to complete this stunner in time to ship back to the US for Christmas, and I am nothing if not goal oriented.

Filed under: Works in Progress on November 16th, 2008