Obviously this has been a dismal failure. The lure of quilting sucked me in no quickly that I wanted nothing to do with other hobbies. People who have been following me for some time probably forgot completely that I was going to try to hand spin and knit in addition to quilting.
Last week I attended the Vancouver Handspinners meeting, and my fingers actually remembered what to do! I spun all afternoon before the meeting so I wouldn't look like an idiot in front of the others. That is the first time I've touched a spinning project since mid-April!
The retreat I'm attending tomorrow through Sunday is the Fort Vancouver Knitting Guild retreat. I'm on the retreat committee so I figured I'd better spend at least part of the weekend knitting. Today I got out my bin of partially finished projects - 11 of them! I chose two different pairs of socks to work on. I hope to come home with at least one completed sock. I picked the two I thought took the least amount of thought - knitting and visiting is a recipe for disaster when knitting a complex pattern. Here are the two I'm taking:
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| "Tidelines" by Anne Hanson |
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| "Coquettish Clown" by Melissa Morgan-Oakes |
2 comments:
Your socks are lovely. Must be the cooler temps that have us pulling out those unfinished knitting projects. I just pulled out a pair of unfinished socks this week....turning the heel on the second one means I just may have cozy toes by snowfall.
Ya know when you quit quilting a couple of years ago and caught the knitting bug -- I was baffled. How could any dyed in the wool :-) quilter just stop and move to another hobby. Now -- a day late and a dollar short as always, I've finally caught the knitting bug and my quilting is taking backseat! When you figure out how to keep up with both...let me know!
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