Bogroll Babble

After spending many months with some kind of unconscious aversion to knitting, I am suddenly overwhelmed with projects.

I picked up the needles and finished off a hat for my wife. Despite the horrendously awful boucle’ yarn involved, I kept knitting.

A friend has a mitten pattern that needed a test knitter. I’ve finished one mitten, I’m looking at my notes to see what might need to be changed, and will start the next mitten soon.

I really want to knit a felted messenger-style bag to carry my netbook in. I have looked around for patterns, and had just about settled on one when I stumbled across a technique for casting on yarn to a d-ring. (d-ring cast-on) Sweet! And that would let me make the strap removable and/or adjustable. So now I need to design my own pattern. That’s going to take a little contemplation, so that project probably won’t start for a while.

While killing time stumbling around on the Internet one evening I happened across an article about making bottle cozies: cozies. What’s wrong with that pattern, you ask? Why, nothing at all. However, I think I need to design my own. I’ve started and frogged three times so far.

Kilt hose! These have been on my list for a while now. And now that I’ve ordered another kilt, I think I need to be starting them.

I’m heading off to Omegacon soon, and as I started thinking about my packing list it occured to me that I don’t have any slippers. Oh noes! Whatever shall I do? Well, what I shall do is go without for now. But I do have it in mind to remedy my lack of slipper-ness. Perhaps with these.

And of course I’d like to make some things as Christmas gifts. But whenever will I have time? I’m afraid that my knitting is going to be done completely selfishly for quite a while.