You know, I used to be really good about only having one project on the needles. But lately that seems to have gone completely out the window. I actually have 2 projects that have been sitting for over a month, 2 that have been on my needles for at least a week or two, and I just cast on for another pair of socks today! What’s happening to me?! What’s next, buying yarn with no project in mind? Oh wait, I’ve already broken that rule a few times.
I guess I’ll just chalk it up to anticipation for school to end, and my short attention span these days. I’m juggling so many balls it seems that I can’t spend a prolonged amount of time with anything, so I guess that has migrated to my knitting habits too. Although, one positive note is that it gives me lots of knitting content to show off now!
So what do I have on the needles anyway? Let’s see…
Garden Shawl (for my Mom) → I really need to pick this up again (sorry Mom!), but it definitely won’t happen until the semester is over. When it takes 30+ minutes to do a round, it’s difficult to find time to get much done on it.
Emma’s Sweater → I’m not entirely sure this one is even going to fit, and seeing as it’s quite warm these days, I think this might be destined for the frog pond until Fall.
Topi (for my brother Clay) → This one is a fairly quick knit, but it seems to have not gone right a few times. I’m knitting it out of a skein of Yarn Nerd 2400 MHz that I saved for my brother a while ago, and I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to make it sturdy and still have enough yarn. After a few false starts, I ended up double stranding the top, and single stranding the rest. I was almost all the way done when I realized that I’d made the bill way too big, it looked like a duck bill! (Why is it that it’s never possible to fess up to these things until it’s too late?) So now I’m almost done, I just have to wrap the bill, stick in the insert and sew it shut.
- Medallion Mitts → I needed to use up the rest of the yarn from my Dad’s Jaywalkers, so I cast on for these fingerless mitts, from my Knitting with Balls book a few weeks ago. I’m close to finishing the first one, but still seem unable to do so…they would be nice though, since my new cubicle is a bit on the chilly side.
- Broad Spiral Rib Socks → This is a new knit (cast on today!), and I’m already in love. I happened to be browsing a bookstore yesterday when I noticed that they had a copy of More Sensational Knitted Socks. Needless to say I bought that sucker, and spent the evening browsing through it, and it’s totally awesome. There’s both toe-up and top-down instructions for all the socks, how cool is that? And lots more discussion on different heel and toe techniques, as well as lots of different cast ons and bind offs that can change your sock’s look. Charlene Schurch? I love you!
Anyway, I was smitten with the Broad Spiral Rib socks, so I cast on first this morning. I don’t have a picture of the pattern, so you’ll just have to wait until I get there ;) The yarn is some Austermann Step that I got in Chicago a while ago, in turquoise, gray and black. Kind of last month’s Project Spectrum colors, but let’s be honest…I’m much more of a greys/blacks guy than a pink/yellow/green guy. (Although, if you want some PS goodies, check out the Yarn Nerd update on Monday!) At this point I’m definitely smitten with the sock, but looking at the above list we’ll see how long that lasts.
Do you think a doctor will prescribe ritalin for knitting ADD? Yeah, I figured not ;)
So there’s your knitting update, now onto Saturday Sky! Today’s lovely sky photo features some nice sky, clouds and…a green toilet? Yup, coming to you from the metropolis of Socorro, NM, here’s the crazy antics that those nerdy engineers are up to down at New Mexico Tech.
One of my former roommates took this and sent it to me, and I just about died laughing. Some students managed to get a green toilet up on top of the library clock tower, which is actually pretty darn high. So high in fact, the firetruck ladder won’t even get close to it, so the poor school has no idea how to get it down! Ha! How good is that? We engineers can be pretty clever!
So why is the toilet green? You really don’t want to know. Green is a very mythical color down at NMT, involving tales of green sheep and drunk miners. I remember many a St. Patrick’s day that involved naked green people streaking across campus!
The things you do when you attend a school with a 7:1 guy to girl ratio I guess.
It’s okay to have a bunch of projects on the needles, Adam! It just shows that you are like the rest of us! ;)
Aw, you’re just a piker! I have a ton of projects on the needles at the same time. Knitting’s supposed to be fun; just work on what you want to work on! :)
the more projects the merrier :) your not alone!
It’s not ADD, you’re just giving yourself options! At least, that’s what I keep telling myself.
The toilet is awesome. I love nerdy engineer pranks.
Hey, this is no sickness… you know you have to have different projects because you’re not always in the mood to work on one thing or another. If it really stresses you, you could implement a rotation thing. Assign a day to each project and then work on that project only that particular day. Of course if a sock is near completion or you have a deadline you can work on that exclusively. It used to (partially) work for me when I did my cross stitching :)
Cheers Eva - who’s not going to comment on the green toilet… although… they could have made it funnier if they’d planted a couple of roses in it :)
Delurking.
I don’t think it’s knitting ADD you’ve got, it’s probably knitting ADDiction! You know you’re a knitting junkie when you can’t stick to one fix at a time! :)
Love the toilet! I hope they figure out how they got it up there! Engineer pranks are always the funniest! :)
Nothing wrong with multiple projects on the needles; it keeps one from getting bored.
I LOVE the toilet on the tower. Really, do you know how they did it?
But wouldn’t some guys really like that ratio?? The green toilet is a hoot. Charlene Schurch’s hat book taught me the long tail purl-wise cast on! Great to switch back and forth with ‘regular’ long tail for ribbing.
I want to start my Topi soon, yours looks gr8 in those colors!!!! <333
Have you heard of the MIT (I think that’s where it was) prank where a group of boys got a cow up to the roof of one of the dorms, and apparently they had to airlift it down because the poor animal wouldn’t go down stairs?
My boyfriend’s father claims to have been a part of that- I get such a kick out of hearing these stories :)
OMG! The toilet is hilarious!
Wow. I really hope you grow another couple arms, or else I don’t know what will become of you.
I’m picturing Jack Bauer to the rescue, rappelling down to air lift that toilet outta there. ;)
Wow! I’m always amazed by people that can have that many projects going at once. I do not have that talent. Cool stuff Adam!
Hey,
Just went to Yarn Nerd to check out the new products…the new colors are great! I love the mini skeins and the design your own skein deal! Great idea! It just keeps getting better and better!
Today at about 2:00, the entire school shut down for a while so everyone could watch the workmen take the toilet off the clocktower. They had to hire a truck from Albuquerque with a large enough boom to reach that high. One of the workers had a camera and was taking pictures as the boom approached the tower. It was pretty great! Everyone you could imagine was out there taking pictures, and the crowd cheered (and some of them booed) when they finally hoisted the toilet into the box and started down again.
I have pictures. :)
once again I wonder what I was thinking spending all that time studying at tech. There were so many more interesting things to be doing…
Let me know if you hear how they did it.