I now have:
1. Samus, who needs re-blocking, seaming, zipper-sewing-in, and applied i-cord edging
2. Brea Bag, for which I need more yarn before I can finish, and they don't sell that shade of Cascade 220 at Windsor Button
3. Openwork Scarf, which got too boring to motivate me to finish it, seeing as I won't be wearing it for several months yet
And then I went and started something else.
I really INTENDED to work on the scarf when I went to visit my parents this weekend. I popped the needles off the Brea Bag and put on stitch holder ends, and put the needles onto the cable holding the scarf. I pulled out a skein of the gorgeous Malabrigo I'm using for it. I packed the scarf in my bag...and left the skein sitting on my desk. Crap.
I also ended up missing my train due to construction on the red line route. The shuttle bus left me at Park Street right at the time my train was pulling out of South Station. It being a Saturday, I knew I had a good bit of time to kill before the next train. So I called my mom and told her I'd be getting on the next train...after stopping at Windsor Button.
Bad me.
I ended up deciding it was high time I made a very NICE pair of socks. I am always jealous of my fellow SnB'ers lovely hand-knit socks. I had no patterns with me, but I bought myself a skein of Cherry Tree Hill Supersock in the Dusk colorway and (another) set of the Susan Bates sock DPNs (sizes 000, 00, 0, and 1) and a set of size 2 DPNs. I hoped that would see me through a pair of socks. When I got to my parents' place, I was able to find a pattern online that was designed for that yarn, and which required size 0 and size 1 needles. Spiffy! I think it's rather pretty. I finished the cuff yesterday and was planning on starting the lace pattern body today, but silly me, I forgot to bring the size 1 needles that I need to change to. D'oh! Now I just have a pretty cuff sitting on needles in my bag. :)
Here's an image of the socks I'm making, in a different colorway:
At least this has really gotten me excited about knitting again. Recently, only spinning has been exciting, and knitting has been work. So there's a bonus!
