Persistent Knitter

I have too many things to do, and not enough time. But that won’t stop me!  Here’s a run down of all the things I’ve got currently going on (in addition to my day job, being a mom and so on!):

Knit Visualizer (www.knitfoundry.com/software.html)

• I have a few things left on my TODO list to get this puppy ready for release. I’m hoping the Mac version will come out at the same time - but I have a bit more testing to do to make myself confident that it will work just as well as the PC version.  I’m hoping I’ll be able to ‘flip a switch’ and start selling online this month.  I should be able to get this working code wise - but there is a tiny bit more work to do distribution wise (burning CDs, making downloads work and secure, yadda yadda yadda)

Spinning

• Blue/Gray ish roving, only one bobbin left to spin up, then to ply it with the other bobbin I’ve already spun. I love using my WooLee winder! It works great, and when I plyed with it the other day - it was heaven to not have to stop and change hooks
• Just bought some goregous super soft, wonderful feeling batts of wool from theknitter.com I don’t know if she has it on the website or not, she had just received it in, and a group of us were over and she let us troll through her basement. I bought a lb of each blue and grey. I’m contemplating either weaving something with it or knitting myself a sweater (fair isle of course) with it.

Knitting

• Bjerk sweater: Need to finish the neckline; and sew in the sleeves. Then weave in the ends. it’s not a good bus project so it’s been a bit neglected.  Shouldn’t take much time to finish up. The recipient has agreed that we won’t subject it to the post office trip, and she’ll pick it up in early march when she’s visiting us again
• Mittens: Mitten 1 complete, Mitten 2 is about 1/3 of the way done. Super soft - I can’t wait until they are done!
• Cow/Sheep/Pig sweater for alex: Languishing in the drawer, I’ll get back to this soon.
• Hat for Alex: Ordered blue yarn to make a hat for him. might want to make a sweater out of the same yarn - we’ll see how ambitious I get. The hat will be a quick weekend project.
• Sock design for Feb SOTM: Half way done; gotta finish this up and soon!  I finished sock #1 in the kid/Katie size. Fits perfect, but have to do the next size up for hte pattern. I know Katie will like the pair when it’s done.
• Various socks in progress, gotta finish some 2nd socks.

Weaving

• Secret Agent dishtowels. I’m over 1/6 of the way done!  These should weave up pretty fast. There’s minimal finishing (hand sewing down the seams, after I machine zig zag the raw edges). I can’t wait to start using them
• A vague plan to make a scarf/shawl for myself out of handspun. It’s vague because I haven’t started spinning for it, although I do have a pattern in a book picked out :)

Robots

• Dear Husband bought me the coolest book ever for xmas: Robot Building for Beginners . I have a lot of great background for this hobby (and some of the tools necessary); but not enough stuff. Waiting for a bonus check to start spending lots on this hobby. I’ve picked up a few of the smaller things to get started with.  Last night I had fun playing around with putting a variety of switches onto my breadboard* and plugging in different color LEDs into the circuit I’ve got wired up there.

* A breadboard is a thing you can use to build up ’sample’ circuits. It’s kind of like testing for gauge in knitting; except a lot more essential to figure out if it’s going to blow up or even work when you put it together.