WIP Where I Need to Be.

So, for those who arent in the knitting terminology know how, WIP is short for Work In Progress.

It always feels that I have at least half a dozen projects going on and a gazillion things I want to make. (Let alone the fact that my bedroom is slowly being taken over by my yarn stash).

Right now I'm knitting up a hat that was giving me problems. The orig directions seemed a little wonky when I first scanned though them, assuming that the hat, like all the other hats I've knitted from patterns, would be done in the round! I started the pattern, and the changing of the colors were giving me issues of making the change over smoothly.

I had realised that the pattern had you knit the first 3 rows in the round THEN switch to working flat (going back and forth as if on two needles as apposed to continuing in the round). I thought it was a bit poor for the designer to have you start in the round and then switch it up so soon into the pattern. At that rate, it should have been just straight up two needle pattern (non-cicrular needles) and then have you sew the seam up - you'd still have to sew a seam up in any event might as well make it all one seam.

Weird weird weird.

I am also knitting up two pairs of Fetching, fingerless gloves that has cables at the writsts and just below the knuckles (the cables make it snug enough to keep your wrist warm with out cutting off cirulation to your hand). Its more of a wrist warmer than fingerless glovess.

Also, I'm working on pair of socks (just bound on and no other progress).

I'm scheeming about knitting a vest for myself. Something that's professional enough to wear to work but can be a casual dress up vest as well.

Well enough of my ranting for the moment as I go off and print more hat patterns (as if i need more patterns! ha!)

Procession of Hats.

Now, I've been talking about the hat's I'm knitting for my 100 hat challenge, but so far have failed to show what has been accomplished thus far.

So for this little blog, I'm posting some pics of the hats (or head wear in some cases) I've knitted for this challenge.

The Hats! The Hats!

Ok. So, I challenged myself to do 100 hats come the new year. Quite the ambitious knitter who wasn't working full time. Quite the challenge for someone who now works full time.

So, what I'm going to do is take the time limit off and just knit the 100 hats. Maybe make it 100 hats by 2010?

We shall see.

Hats Hats Hats.

Ok. So this post is going to be a bit short, just wanted to show the different hat's I've started on my 100 Hat Challenge!

Hat One:


Hat Two:


Hat Three:



So 3 of the 100 hats are finished, 97 to go, currently working on two. And only a rough 128 days stand between me and my deadline!

Ravelympics 2008.

Yes, yes, it's actually Ravelympics 2008. I've entered myself into the frenzy of the knitting scheme of knitting something, as sort of friendly competition, with the heavy dose of Olympic theme thrown in.

Here's a quote from Ravelry.com web page about it:

"The Ravelympics (not to be confused with the Knitting Olympics, which take place every four years, just like any other Olympic sport, and will be orchestrated by the Yarn Harlot) are open to any knitter or crocheter on Ravelry ready to take on the challenge of completing a project (or projects) within 17 days during the 2008 Summer Olympics."

It is most exciting, for me at least, to have a challenge like this, with a dead line. Otherwise, it will take me forever to finish something simple (I tend to have multiple projects going on at one time and tend to have a short attention span for any one project).

If it wasn't for the county fair, I probably wouldn't finish some things in less than a year.

Ok. Back to the Olympic based topic.

Some of the catagories include (oh screw it, I'm posting everything):

• Afghan Marathon
• Amigurumi-n-Toys Toss
• Baby Dressage
• Bag-n-Tote Backstroke
• Balance Beads
• Cable Steeplechase
• Colorwork Cross-Country
• Cowl Jump
• Designers Discus
• Fantasy DecKnitathalon
• Felted Freestyle
• Free-For-All Freestyle
• Fleece to Finished Fencing
• Glove Decathlon
• Gift Knits Pentathlon
• Hand-Dyed Hurdles
• Handspun Heptathalon
• Hat Dash
• Holiday Handbal
• Home-Stuff Hammerthrow
• Itsy Bitsy Bikini Breaststroke
• Laceweight Long Jump
• Mitten Medley
• Pets Pommel Horse
• Scarf Stroke
• Shawl Relay
• Sock Put
• Sweater Sprint
• Synchronized Flirty Skirts
• Vest Vault
• WIPs Wrestling

Personally, I've entered *starts counting on her fingers* 9 projects.

ALL hats.

I'm planning on showing the hats as I finish them (both here on my blog and on Ravelry). A couple of them I've done before:

Glove Hat



Cookie Monster Hat


Tychus Hat



And some were chosen b/c I thought them funny:
Bataclava


Brain Monster



Please note the pictures that dont showcase my lovely face, are from their respected pattern web pages. The names above the pictures should link you through to their respected web pages.

If not, here are the web addresses (I used TinyURL to condense the long web addresses):
Tychus: http://tinyurl.com/8bfgk
Bataclava: http://tinyurl.com/5nd548
Brain Monster: http://tinyurl.com/3cu446

I really like the different "event" names and their variance/combination. I'm itching to get started on any one of them. My strategy is doing the easiest first and getting them out of the way.