[Nfb-krafters-korner] New Year's Knitting Resolutions?

[slery]

Knitting Resolutions

Well, I have this sweater sitting beside my chair and all I have to finish
is one sleeve. I'm not really sure why I haven't finished it but it sits
there languishing. So, I really want to finish that sleeve this year.

I've posted various questions on-list regarding chair covers. So far, I have
not found a pattern that meets my needs so I am going to have to design one.
The chair covers are to match my mother's Christmas table cloth. There are
fourteen chairs but I told her I would shoot for twelve which comes out to
one a month. However, the first one will take much longer since I am
designing it and we have to find yarn that matches. I have emailed Coats &
Clark to find out if their Holiday yarn is available all year and if they
have sample cards so we can match the colors. They have an Aran with gold
metalic that I think would match the background of her table cloth and then
I wouldn't have to use an actual gold to put in the swirls of gold to match.

It would be nice to finish the blanket I am working this year but I'm okay
if I don't. It is simply one of those long projects that I have sitting by
my chair when I watch tv that I can work on whenever I feel like it.

My father would like a pair of socks this year since I have been raving
about the pair I made for myself. This may or may not happen since KnitPicks
is discontinuing their Risata collection. I have purchased some Cascade
Fixation which is the only other sock yarn that I can find that has elastic
in it.

And last but not least, I received a drop spindle and roving for Christmas
so I am going to learn how to spin. I don't have any great expectations of
making all my own yarn or anything. The main goal is that I want to gather
enough fur from my new kitties (two are roughly the same color as my cat
that passed away) and combine it with what I had saved from my other cat to
make something special for myself. Apparently, I may have to attempt to also
make sock yarn with elastic since that seems like it is very hard to come
by.

Okay, perhaps I will save this message and report back at the end of the
year how things went.

Cindy S.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> River Woman
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 1:27 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] New Year's Knitting Resolutions?
> 
> 
> I have a couple of books with all the knitted items in them 
> are made from 
> only one skein. The books I have are:
> 
> _One Skein Wonders_ 101 Yarn Shop Favorites:      edited  by 
> Judith Durant
> 
> _One Skein_30 projects to knit and crochet -  by Leigh Radford
> 
> _Knitter's Stash _ edited  by Barbara Albright. these are 
> yarn store owners' 
> favorite projects
> 
> _The Yarn Stash Workbook_ Great Ideas and Dozens of Projects, 
> by Laura 
> Militzer Bryant.
> 
> These should keep me pretty busy doing some new ind 
> innovative things using 
> my stash. Each has some very lovely things to knit from stash 
> and I really 
> want to meet the challenge in 2011 by putting these books to 
> work. Lynda 
> River Woman
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Theresa Taylor" <tct71887 at gmail.com>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] New Year's Knitting Resolutions?
> 
> 
> >I would love to know of some of your one skein wonders...I 
> definitely 
> >want
> >to work from my stash and they sound intriguing.
> > Theresa
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
> > To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 10:54 AM
> > Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] New Year's Knitting Resolutions?
> >
> >
> >> OK, I promise, this is my last post for the morning...I 
> get carried 
> >> away,
> >> I know.
> >>
> >> I am wondering, those of you who knit, what you might have 
> as goals 
> >> for
> >> your knitting in 2011? I already stated mine is to work 
> from my stash. 
> >> And, I am picking out projects now that I will work on in 
> the upcoming 
> >> year. What are yours? I would love to know as you might 
> give me some 
> >> additional ideas, too.
> >>
> >> Lynda River Woman
> >> "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about 
> >> learning to
> >> dance in the rain."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Visit my website:  http://lyndalambert.com
> >>
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