the need to knit...

[thereyougothen]

i've been crocheting for weeks and months, with just  a few rows of Bill's knitted pullover added in here and there.  BUT:  my wrist is starting to hurt - probably becasue of the lack of anti-inflammatories, so I think I need to knit.

having got bogged down in sewing, i haven't had time to plan any holiday knitting, so what am I going to do?  i've been through all my pattern books and can't find anyting that fits with what i have in the stash.  i don't have time to knit a tension square to make up a knitware pattern.  all i can think to do is use knitware to generate a shcematic for someting i want to make, and then do a swatch while i'm away and then use a calculatro and try and make it fit.

anyone see any pitfalls i should be aware of?  i have 900 grams of rowan cotton tape.  well, actually i have more than that, but i have 900 grams in blue.  maybe i'll take the black as well, just in case. 

i'm hoping to try some "lace" knitting - a really basic one i found in the readers' digest needlecrafts book.  i'd love to try a wrap top.  (yes, hfnuala, i've been reading your copy of big girl knits!)

Comments

[eastofedin.livejournal.com]

You should take up sock knitting. Small, portable, easy to calculate how many socks you will knit per week (in my case, about half a sock, for Shona, ten socks plus a shawl) and you can usually count on finding an emergency ball of sock yarn just about anywhere, if you run out.