Well, I thought I'd start the New Year off right by working on some UFOs this past weekend. (By the way, how did it get to be Thursday? Just know that this blog post has been percolating since Monday, but this is the very first moment I've had a chance to post.)
So first, inspired by finished Rogues by Julia and Teresa in the last few months, I pulled my Rogue out of it's hiding place. I abandoned it in disgust when I completed the hood last spring, only to find that the decreases were completely unacceptable to me. I don't think this was really the fault of the pattern; my row gauge was probably off or something. Anyway, I finally did rework them, and added some extra rows to the top of the cables to address some other puckering issues, and re-grafted the top shut. It's better, but I'm not completely happy with my grafting. Whatever, it'll do. I'm not knitting on this thing any more.
See, no puckering hood decreases? Sub-par grafting cleverly hidden by camera angle. I'm doing the cardi version, so I made applied I-cord for the front edges. And I sewed in one sleeve. That was a lot of work for one weekend. Maybe I'll put in the other sleeve and the zipper... oh... sometime next summer.
But wait! There's more!
I also picked up the Great American Aran Afghan again. You've already seen three of the squares. Here's another, that I completed this week.
There's actually another one that I did a couple months ago and somehow never posted. It turns out that last year I hardly posted any pictures of finished projects. What's up with that? I'll try to do better this year. (What resolutions? We don't want no stinkin' resolutions...)
I was motivated to pick this project up again by my sister finally setting a date for her wedding - wouldn't this make a great wedding present? And I only have until October to do 15 more squares, sew the whole thing together and knit a border.
So that was two UFOs resurrected in one weekend! But in the minus collumn we have this
lonely sock, who may never have a mate, because I just don't love him enough to make him one. I may give it to the store as a sample. Because life's too short to knit with sock yarn you don't love. There's nothing wrong with it, I'm just not feeling it. So instead of casting on for Crazy sock #2, I cast on with some lovely blue variegated tweedy Trekking.
But hey, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Hooray for Rogue! Finally. :)
Posted by: Teresa C | January 06, 2006 at 04:32 PM
That square looks great! I'm working on the Great American Aran Afghan, too. I had it almost finished last Christmas for my mom, but got mad at it when the edging didn't work out right for me, so I set it aside for a year! I'm trying to finish the edging now. I know it will be a bit before you get there, but I highly recommend doing the edging attached rather than doing the edging and then attaching it. But, you'll cross that bridge when you get there. :-)
Posted by: sarah b. | January 07, 2006 at 10:41 AM
Hi Alison,
want to send me that sock and i'll finish it for you.. i've gotta problem with the one sock itis!! hee..hee.. i always have to finish them for peoples.. hee..hee.. i seem to become obsessed when i get to the end of the first sock so that it is done in 1/2 the time it took to make the first one.. haha.. :-) hugs happy new year , karola
Posted by: Karola | January 09, 2006 at 02:52 PM