Startitis

I have a major case of startitis right now. I can't seem to help wanting to start new projects all the time. I think part of it has to do with the fact that most of my projects are in a boring stage.

I have a dress for Aubrey with cute little owl cable things at the bottom. I am in the knit plain until skirt is long enough stage. When did Aubrey get so freaking tall?! It's taking forever! It's empire waisted though so once I get through the skirt I am almost done. I just have to decide on what to do with the sleeves. The original that I am copying has little cap sleeves, but I am thinking of doing sleeves down to her elbows and doing one of the little owl cables on those too.

I have a snowflake afghan that I wanted to have done for Christmas *cough* yeah right *cough*. I memorized the pattern for that a while a go and am now in the repeat until infinity stage. Ok, so it's really repeat until you have 98 but boy does that seem like a lot.

I have Aubrey's Christmas reindeer sweater. I have no idea why I stalled out on that one. It's colorwork, and at the point I am at now every row is different. I guess I just abandoned it in favor of shiny new projects. (see above owl dress)

And as if that isn't enough, yesterday I went and bought yarn to start a new sweater from the new Interweave Knits. I am trying to be good and not start it until I finish at least the skirt part of the dress, but it is calling my name! Click Here See how pretty it is! I am being daring and doing it in a gold/mustard color. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, and I'm not sure if it will look good on me when all is said and done. But I keep being drawn to things on Ravelry that are gold/mustard, so I decided to just go for it.

Socktoberfest 2009

I am partaking in Socktoberfest this year. Basically you knit socks for the month of October. There is a Ravelry group here. I ordered 4 new things of sock yarn just for this event.



The one in the back is my favorite:



Isn't it purty (yes, I just said purty). I am going to make it into the Blossom socks from Twist Collective.

I have also started some Mystery Socks out of the green:



I did some mystery socks last year and had a lot of fun.

The other two yarns have patterns yet to be determined. I have something in mind for the crazy purple and orange yarn but I have to swatch to see if it will work.