I have been trolling around blogland and enjoying myself immensely. I am thinking of totally redoing my bloglines links because I find myself reading people on a daily basis that I never read before and not reading people that I used to hit several times a day waiting for a new post already. YO Lisa start blogging again puh-lease. Anyway Friday night I came accross two resolution thingies: UFO 12 by 12 and a place with a yarn diet button. Now I feel like I am on the perpetual yarn diet so I *could* add that button but I wonder on the 12 by 12 thing. Do people have 12 UFO’s sitting around? I have 7 at the moment~ Collinette shrug called Ffion, Colinette top called Cindy, Shetland Tea, Maple Garland and Field of Flowers shawls, BW topdown and spinning if you want to be picky. Is this a finish 12 objects this year group? I could live with that. So here I am musing on yarn diets and knitting for myself and I decided to totally change my goals for the year. Quelle Surprise. Actually there is more to the story. Mainly I have spent my past week online perusing blogs and starting stuff and swatching yarns and doing the demi and scoping out the Wonderful World of Wool aka WWW. And Friday my husband threw some extra money into the acct for me to purchase yarn. First I thought wipieeeeeee stuff that has caught my attention lately or stuff I have been coveting for a while. While stuff won and I went searching for some CE Maya. What!?! It’s Discontinued and nowhere to be found. OK how about some CE London Tweed? What!?! It’s been discontinued and nowhere to be found. Hmmmm OK Reynolds Turnberry Tweed. What!?! Discontined and nowhere to be found.  With the background firmly established I vow to purchase yarn willy nilly all year long and every single chance I get. So there. By the way I did buy yarn and needles.

Knit related news I decided to rip my maple garland shawl because….. I got to the end of flower and realized the entire ground of shawl is a textured stitch instead of a lacey stitch. I think Miss Kinzel was right about going up to an absurd needle size so that the whole thing will be more filmy. I doubt I will go up to size 5’s and I ordered a brand spanking new set of Aero’s in size 2.75, 3, & 3.25mm so will swatch with those. Yah I have needles in those sizes but new needles woo hoo! Make it 6 WIPs//UFOs. I also didn’t work on the green shawl and have decided to go ahead and follow the pattern [instead of adding border or making it square] because I don’t feel like asking for more yarn to be dyed up for me. I have, however, been knitting on the plum heather shawl aka Shetland Tea just so that when I am done with a few other things I will be at the lace portion. Those long rounds of plain st st are mighty tedious. I got my extra Colinette yarns so am working on those as well.

Hey I finished Ffion!{I’ve been adding to this post which began on Friday evening every day} Let’s begin with the fact that this is one strange ‘garment’ I read through the instructions and immediately called UK to ask where the neckline instructions were. Yep you CO on one hem edge, knit so far, CO for sleeves, knit so far, BO sleeves, knit so far, BO opposite hem. No neckline. Ends up there isn’t supposed to be one. Your just supposed to stick your arms into the sleeves and either have a shawl collared bolero/shrug whatevahhh or a cowl necked backlass thingie. They seemed quite pleased with the concept of you can wear it upside down, backwards, and if your neat with your seams inside out as well. Its huge. Looksie:

I had to crop the picture so that I could stand way up high to get width of garment almost all in which resulted in a lotta floor over and above. See those sleeves? They look so piddly in relation to the width and they are 8″ long. Can you see the loose gauge at hem level or at least a slight flare? The hems are knit very very loosely so that you can have the bottom wrap around your body and still drape over shoulders. It is indeed an odd garment. It’s completion brings us down to 5 UFO’s/WIPS

Ah Monday morning so toodles!