New Projects

After much humming and haahing I finally cast on my next project, which is a gorgeous Ginny Owls cardigan in a beautiful sea green wool.

And because having just one project on the go is too straight forward, the boy has also asked me to knit his 'baby' (doll) some clothes.

I let him search through my spare yarn collection to pick some wool he likes. He chose a lovely rainbow yarn for some booties, and some pink yarn for a dress. The doll is a bit smaller than most dolls, so a pain to knit for as everything has to be tiny, but at least the boy will be happy!

I'll stick some pictures up in the next few days,
But for know, what's everyone else working on at the moment?

To cast off, or not to cast off...

I had intended to do this next, I bought all the wool for it before Christmas, but I don't know if I want to do another huge project straight away. Ho hum...

And the other hand, my son is obsessed with Space, and his favourite planet is Jupiter, I'm wondering if I could try and knit him a Jupiter cushion? I've got some red and orange Aran wool spare, and some cushion stuffing left over from when I made my Lekku last year. I'm guessing I could use a standard ball pattern and tweak it.

Ugh, to Ravelry for some inspiration.

And it's finished!

Finally after 3 months worth of knitting, my Heliopath vest is finished!

It's now soaking so I can block it this afternoon, but I've got to say I'm rather chuffed with it. It's officially the most complicated thing I've ever done, but at least I've proved to myself that I can do complicated knits.

And here's the finished article...

For those who are interested, the pattern can be found here... heliopath-vest 

So, fellow knitters, what's the most complicated thing you've ever knit? 

And more importantly, what should I knit next?! 

What else are knitting needles good for?

So on twitter the other night we established that if the Zombie Apocalypse  a good pair of metal (or carbon fiber)knitting needles could be used to kill a zombie in an emergency. Similarly, a pair of circular needles could be used to garrote someone should you need to.

See, if Rick had some knitting needles here he could cull the zombie population a bit quite easily! No fuss, no muss!

But is there anything else you could use your needles for (excluding knitting obviously) or do you already use them for something else one might not expect?

Progress!

I had to take a break from the vest, as it felt like I was getting no where, so I just kept putting it off.

But last night I made myself pick it up again, and in the last 24 hours I've made a huge amount of progress. The body of the vest is done, and two & a 1/4 of the straps are done. That's 1&3/4 straps, and the edging left to do.

It's a real relief to finally feel like I'm getting somewhere now. Hopefully this time next week it'll be finished. Although given that I have my mother arriving for a visit tomorrow, maybe this time in 2 weeks is a more achievable target!

But anyway, do you ever put off a project because you feel like you're getting nowhere? Have you ever picked something up again and realise if you'd carried on you'd have been finished by now? Or are you all much more dedicated knitters than me?! ;)