It took me forever to finish another cardi; and as I ran out of wool I was obliged to crochet the drop-shoulder sleeves out of a much darker blue. In trying to provide an (unspoken) excuse, I used the same darker blue to edge around the whole thing. End result: wearing it, I look as if I have peripheral artery disease of the arms. Sighh ..
I was stuck doing this bloody thing for so long that when I finally finished it I instantly began on something entirely different to excise the V-stitch from my mind: having found a very appealing afghan square that a crocheting Pom I admire, the inexhaustible Dora Does, had come up with, I started in on that.
I call it ‘my bed of nails’. Imagine a whole afghan of these squares ! [grin]
But then, I was completely sidetracked by coming across a faaabulous scarf/shawl created by the talented Icelander, Tinna Thorudottir Thorvaldar. She based her design on her idea of a tartan; but it’s open to endless variation. I have begun this, too – 297-stitch chain !
I’m expecting – nay, hoping for, rather – a delivery of Noro Silk Garden on Tuesday morning; this I was informed by Australia Post would be delivered last Thursday ! Pfuh ! The porpoise of the Noro is a knit-along on the site of Michele Lee Bernstein, of whose work, too, I am an admirer.
From Michele’s site I’m going to learn how to knit entrelac without using several different balls of yarn at once ! I already know how to make tunisian crochet entrelac, and have a photo of a swatch I did to show my eldest sister of an array of blues:
by which she was unimpressed, thank all the gods. I mean, all those ends ..
Unlike Hannah, who thrives on WIPs by the dozen, they only make me feel stressed. I have decided that although I’m now well in to the other two, it’s Michele’s entrelac I shall actually make my next project. WHEN I lay hands on my wool. [grump grump ..]
We use the term W(ork)I(n)P(rogress) largely to mean something sitting somewhere not being worked on, do we not ? Or is it meant to describe everything that’s actually been started but not finished, including the one we’re working on ..?
DOWNUNDER WITH BOODZ 
In patchwork these rapidly became UFOs – Unfinished Objects but maybe knitters have them too. I don’t do much (any) patchwork these days but I have my share of UFOs. I think I’ll be donating them to the local patchwork shop that has working books making quilts etc for charities.
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I’m scarcely surprised you don’t have time for patchwork, Sue ! And anyway, it’s not real patchwork any more: now they go out and BUY material !!
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That’s true “they” do! I’ll use that as my excuse – it’s not real patchwork!
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[grin]
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Do I get points for knowing right off the top what WIP meant? And do I get bonus points for seeing your header photo and thinking: a bowl of blueberries!
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You do, you do, Maggie ! But .. what shall we offer as the prize for the points ?! :D
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I’m sure you’ll think of summthin’
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If I remember correctly, we had some kind of competition, back in the day, that you won: and the prize was a poem written about you. Hmmmmm ..
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We did and it involved liver or something.
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LIVER ?! Ack !!! My muse must’ve been ill !
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I do love a good variety on my WIP list :D
I use WIPs to mean the projects I’m actually working on/know where they are. If they’ve been on the WIP list with no progress for too long, then I label them UFOs. But I know everyone has their own way of categorising things!
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Ah. Thank-you, Hannah ! – most helpful. And, as you are the Wizard of WIPs, I shall be advised by you. :D
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I also get stressed by WIPs, I just can’t have more than 2, maximum 3 (even that feels bold!) projects on my needles or hook.
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Then at least neither of us is alone, Kat ! [grin]
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