It’s time to update my lists. I keep adding projects. It’s not my fault. I have to walk by shelves and shelves of yarn every single day at work. It’s a job hazard. But I decided something. There are some single socks that are going to stay single socks for a long time. That’s just the way it is. I like having them up on display and if I make the match to it, I’ll just have to knit another single for the wall. That’s my theory. But there ARE some socks that I want to wear instead of having on the wall, so those are on my list.
Do you keep a list of ongoing projects or “soon to knit” projects? And do you update it? Mine looks like this:
Need to Finish – in no particular order:
1. Malabrigo Silky Merino Green Grey scarf
2. Shibui Knits Ivory Cable Rib Wrap
3. Schaefer Anne Girasole shawl
4. Noro Silk Garden Worsted sweater (just one sleeve left – come ON!)
5. Zoe Cardi in Universal Cotton Supreme (worked on it all weekend. Still not done.)
6. My Sunshine Socks in Lorna’s Laces Butterscotch.
7. Froot Loops in Spud and Chloe Fine. (I initially typed Froot Loopy – my fingers work independent of my brain sometimes and I think I’ve typed out “loopy” too many times…)
8. My second sock in The Sanguine Gryphon Bugga. (we have more of this yarn going up next week – another big order for you!)
Need to knit: 4 different yarn lines that I’m contemplating adding in at the moment.
Want to start, not necessarily in this order:
1. Tesni Shawl in …. undecided. Maybe the new Cascade Eco Duo?
2. Seaside Shawlette in one of our new Loopy Line colors (coming in June!)
3. Clothilde in a gorgeous skein of handspun that Lynn from Denver gifted to me at the Fling. (And she is the best spinner I know. I am tempted to just save that handspun skein and put it on a pedestal, but she made me promise to use it, so I will.)
4. Ishbel in Blue Sky Alpaca Silk.
(Please note that anyone with 8 things on the *To Finish* list and 4 things on the *Need to Knit* list, has no business coming up with a *Want to Start* list. I know.)
And this is why the quote above the Cascade 220 Wall is so appropriate for me. You, too?
Here’s the blog question for you to answer in the comments (to be entered into the contest. Prize? Wollmeise. Awarded? Next Monday.) When do you do most of your knitting? For me, I knit more on the weekends than at any point during the week. I’d probably double my output if I could find more time in the evenings to knit.
Just in case you need to add to your *Want to Knit* list, tonight’s update included: Cascade Eco Duo (new!) and 5 new Eco Alpaca Twist colors, new Cascade Heritage Solid colors, 8 more coloways in Madelinetosh Vintage (including Tart – your favorite), Sajou Scissor re-stocks, Dream in Color Smooshy re-stocks, HiyaHiya needle re-stocks, as well as more of those cute Puppy Snips, Needle Gauges, and Interchangeable sets, and finally, a re-stock of Marie Mayhew patterns, including a new Woolly Sheep and a new Woolly Sheep Kit. Enjoy!
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I do most of my knitting in the morning. I am NOT a morning person, so after getting the kids off to school and whatever laundry/whatnot started, I can sit and start my coffee and knit, in peace and quiet.
I do most of my knitting at stop lights, lunch tiem at work and at knit night at my LYS.
I used to knit all the time at the last job. Now I hardly ever get to knit. 🙁
I usually knit at night. Being semi-retired, I feel guilty if I knit too much during the day. That must be why I don’t get as much done as I’d like – duh
You sure are tempting me with all the goodies you’re talking about. Must look closer!
I do most of my knitting while waiting. Much of the time I am in a doctor’s office or hospital waiting room, as several family members require continual care. I cannot stand to wait without something to keep hands and mind busy.
I usually have a sock project in my purse to work on while waiting, but get more knitting done while riding in the car on weekend trips. Sometimes I also knit while watching TV, especially the more complicated parts, or parts that I could easily drop stitches.
I knit all the time. Anywhere, any place. Fortunately, I am good at multitasking!
I do my knitting, after dinner of a night while there is not much on the TV.
I do my knitting after the house work is done and just before morning tea.
I do my knitting just before lunch, oh and I haven’t moved since morning tea.
I do my knitting sitting by the window in the winter and on the verandah in the summer.
Sometimes I do my kitting sitting in bed waiting, waiting to go to sleep.
I do my knitting while on holidays the only time I haven’t knitted is at the beach.
I knit when I am sick and I knit when I am well.
I knit when I am visiting the family and friends although I don’t think they like it.
somtimes I knit when walking around the yard.
And more importantly I usually finished items too.
Eventually…)
I recently became a proud mommy of a beautiful baby girl, so I do the bulk of my knitting while hooked up to my breast pump. Sad, but totally true!
I mainly knit during the times my daughter is sleeping, so midday and the evening. That’s when I got the time to be most productive and focused 🙂
I knit in the evenings after work and before dinner, TV on, it’s my zone-out time.
I have several favorite TV shows that I Tivo and then replay later while DH is doing his homework (he’s only got 1 year left to graduation…YIPPEE!!). That’s when I do the bulk of my knitting, though I always bring something along to dr. appointments and the like where there may be a long wait.
As an empty nester who is not yet retired, I do most of my knitting either while waiting in lines at the bank, store, or post office; in doctor’s offices, during movie previews, at stop lights (learned from E.Z.), while my husband is driving, while waiting for web pages to download, or the couple of evenings a month when I watch TV. I try to knit a few rows each night before bed. How late I stay up each night depends on how tired I am, and how quickly I need to finish my project! I get much more knitting done in the winter than the summer, but I keep at it even during the warm weather.
I knit at lunch every day and on the couch almost every night while watching TV. I get most of my knitting done then during the week. I find it harder to squeeze in knitting time on the weekends.
I actually get the most knitting done in the morning while I have my coffee………in the winter in front of the wood stove and in warm weather sitting out on the patio…………great way to begin the day………..good coffee and good knitting:)
Most of my knitting is week night evenings. Between 7-10.
I do most of my knitting on week nights while watching TV and on the weekend… Sometimes, I knit at work….
I knit mostly in the evenings.
I grab every chance I can – which is not often with a full-time job and a 3-year old! Recently, I’ve started knitting my socks on the bus / train to and from work – I’ve even managed to knit while walking from the station to the office 🙂 Amazing how much you can get done in 45 minutes…..
I like to do my more complicated lace knitting during the day when the kids are at school and my hubby is at work so I can concentrate in peace and quiet. Although with the builders in at the moment making a loft conversion that time is taking a back seat at the moment.
The less complicated stuff I do on an evening whilst watching TV.
In the hour before bed. Wish there was more time than that…
Most of my knitting is done at night – when I do it. I’ve found a deadline is needed to spur me on – I entered a contest or I have a gift I need to finish – then it’s knitting in the little spurts of time available throughout the day.
I’m a pretty good knitter, but still need to watch what I’m doing – with TV it’s a listening and glancing activity while knitting.
when i should be doing my homework!
I knit in the evenings when I “watch” tv.
Like many others, I do most of my knitting at night, after 9:00pm or so when the kids are finally asleep. I usually watch some TV and knit for a couple of hours. I also knit at sports stuff–baseball practices, in between games of a soccer tournament, etc.
Like many of the other knitters who have responded, I tend to do most of my knitting in the evening. Occasionally, though, there are those enjoyable, challenging projects that are especially hard to put down. Then I’ll find time (before and after work) for some short bursts of “knitting frenzy” during the day as well.
If I spend the weekend at home, Friday night is usually knitting time. Also, I tend to knit on Sunday mornings if I spend the nitght between Saturday and Sunday at my SOs house. He has a very comfortable chair right next to the large windows in the living room, with a nice view of the city and the hills/mountains further away. If I’m visiting, he doesn’t get to use that chair much!
In addition to my regular job, I study and attend courses quite a few weekends and some weeknights. That means going to Oslo, and that means a train ride of an hour and a half each way. Brilliant for knitting! (I always bring at least one project more than is in any way realistic to think that I need …)
I crochet between mad dashes to get my deadlines finished. For some weird reason I’ve only been given mind-numbingly boring texts written by complete nutcases who can’t string two sentences together lately, so my bag of crocheting is sitting right next to my office chair. And when I feel like pulling my hair out, I stop working and crochet a few rows (or ten).
The speed at which my crochet projects get finished is indicative of how awful my work is. It’s amazing how fast that last project went …
My To-Knit list and my WIP list are almost equal in number, but that doesn’t stop me casting on new projects esp if they’re test-knit for friends or socks from Club shipments.
I knit any time, all the time if I can help it! I knit in the car on the way to and from work (my husband drives), I knit at home after having fed the children and checked Ravelry and my email one last time at night, and I knit most during the weekend.
I’d knit in my sleep if I could!
The shortest aswer to that question is : I knit when I sit, life is to short to waist any minute of it
I have knitting needles and yarn all over the house, to my husband’s dismay, so I do it any time. Obviously evenings are the best after my ‘Lifestock’ (hubby and cats) is fed.
More challenging project – one that require more concentration such as lace I do when nobody is home (no distractions).
Summer time when the weather is good I love afternoon kntting in the garden. I wish there were more sunny days in England !
I even go on knitting retreats with my friends and then knitting becomes an all day affair. We became local ‘celebrities’ when we knitted in the pub while drinking wine and waiting for our meal to arrive.
Word of caution: wine and lace do not mix well !!
My husband says that I am totally obsessed. The sad think is that he is right.
‘My name is Paulina and I am yarn addict”
Thank God nobody found a cure for that!
Happy knitting to all my fellow knitters!
I have so many projects these days, I get up at 5:30am and get in a half hour of knitting before work, I bring a sock to work on during lunch, and I sit down and knit another hour before going to bed if I haven’t had time already that evening. All the price of too much beautiful yarn out there!
I like to knit in the morning but the really fun time is when my two daughers come over on Monday evenings and we have a knitting party.
I knit in the morning after I take my children to school. I sit on the sofa and our French bull dog is on one side and our Cornish Rex cat is on the other. They look so lovingly at the yarn.
I do most of my knitting in the evenings while watching tv or listening to audio books. Depending on what is going on, I can get a lot done some weekends. You are a brave woman, I’m afraid to count my wip’s!
I knit in the morning with coffee or tea, when I’m on the telephone, and in the late afternoon/early evening. I don’t leave home without it…you never know when you’re going to end up waiting in line somewhere.
My two Westies love to be outside but know how to escape from the fence so most of my knitting is done while sitting outside babysitting the dogs. I feel like I have little children that I can’t take my eyes off of!
(That’s why I love the 3am bags…the petite hangs on my wrist and I can knit and walk around the yard while watching the dogs)
I knit mostly in front of the TV, with my various projects spread around me on the couch. Always have a small project with me when going someplace for an appointment.
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I typically knit in the evening while watching tv, but greedily grab snippets of knittime whenever the opportunity arises (car and airplane rides, early morning when the house is still sleeping, lunch time, in waiting rooms, during mental health breaks).
I do most of my knitting in the evening watching TV, or the car (everyone of our family members lives 1.5 hrs away in any direction).. during the school year. In the summer, I add 1 hour in the morning while watching Ellen or an afternoon of sitting outside in the sun or at the lake.
I do nearly all my knitting in the evenings as I work full-time and so have to do all my housework/gardening etc. at the weekends. I still get quite a lot done though – one eye on the TV and the other on the needles! I daren’t tell you how many projects are on my WIP list – they all get finished in the end though!
I knit in the evenings, after dinner dishes done. I sometimes squeeze a row or two on a sock at work, but mostly evenings. Weekends I am too busy catching up on household chores.
At work during lunch, and in the evenings afterward. Oh yes, and at the hair and/or nail salon, while my color is processing or my feet are soaking.
I usually take a small project along wherever I go – I get bored easily, and having knitting along helps!
I spread mine around. Sometimes in the morning, unless I’m feeling really guilty about how the house looks. Then I’ll have to wait until evening – after I feel like the house is in order! But early evening is definitely knitting time – somewhere between 7 & 10 – after that I’m too prone to mistakes!
I knit in the evenings, while sitting beside a husband who is a TV freak – he’ll watch ANYTHING, and I don’t care to! Headphones are my friend, hooked into either a laptop beside me or my iPod for music, podcasts or audiobooks.
I go through phases… lately I haven’t been inspired to knit much, but sometimes I knit constantly, while doing just about everything else. I have some BBL yarn bags – little fabric cubes with elastic rings which hang from my wrist – and there are some days when I walk around with one attached like an umbilical cord so I can knit all day, especially if I’m shopping with my husband, who likes to look slowly at every aisle in the supermarket. *yawn*
I knit while I’m on the train every morning and evening. I knit while waiting for appointments. While watching TV, reading a book, waiting for the pizza guy, while I’m out for brunch, when I’m in bed.
Pretty much the only place I won’t knit is at at work and in the bathroom.
I do most of my knitting on the weekends. Usually, its while I catch up on TV shows I missed during the week or while watching a movie. Wednesday night SnB is pretty productive too – in spite of the talking, eating and drinking 😉
I knit during waiting times, in between arriving and picking up children from school, during swimming lessons, on the bleachers at swim meets, long car rides with hubby driving, and sitting outside small son’s room while he falls asleep with me near. Amazing all the lost moments of my day before I knit non-stop.
Most of my knitting is done in the early evenings while watching TiVo’d late night shows (i.e. Daily Show and Colbert) from the night before.
I knit whenever and wherever I can–in line at the grocery store, sitting in the movies. etc. I just love to knit.