Projects On the Needles and on My Mind

I lost my knitting mojo for a time.  I pushed back though by getting some kitchen cotton and making a Valentine's Day dish cloth.  It was pretty easy and quick.  I started a second one and ran out of yarn.  I still need to finish this second cloth so I can reclaim my size sixes and the 16" cable!

A while ago, I meditated a long time, and swatched, and finally cast on a sweater from the Fall 2015 issue of KnitScene magazine.  I fell in love with the cover cowl, but haven't been able to to talk myself into purchasing all that yarn so...no, and maybe never.  So yesterday, I picked up the old sweater again and finished the back ribbing and began the front ribbing.  They will be knit together and the body is knit in the round.  I came to a roadblock last night and it was late, so I'll try to get to the long portion of knitting that is the body and we will see if this is my first sweater that I actually like.

A friend is having a baby.  At first I wanted to make her a blanket (influenced by Sheila D from Knit 1 Heart Too video podcast!).  Then she posted that her aunt crocheted her one so I decided that would be the beloved blankey.  The baby is going to be a girl too.  The father is Chinese so when someone suggested a "lovey" I researched loveys on Ravelry and decided to make her a sock monkey lovey.  The baby is going to be born in the year of the monkey.  Hopefully this will appeal to the parents!  It's a crochet project.  It won't be very big and will be composed of acrylic so it's sturdy and washable.  I'll probably cast that on pretty soon.

I cast on a toe up sock and got to the heel and I don't know exactly how to do the heel.  I intend to do the fish lips kiss heel.  I have the pattern in my Rav library.  I bought some poster board so I can have my foot sketched as the directions dictate.  I hope to get that done tonight by Bob.  I really want to finish this sock!

I am going to use some of my surplus yarn to make a little free baby hat for the future mama (Karlie).  I think I might use the cotton yarn I bought initially to make a baby blanket to make something else.  I think I might make some kind of market mesh bag.  I hope I can pull this off!

A few months ago, I wanted to make a derby/cloche hat from Vogue Knitting Hats book I had from the library.  I finally got the yarn and hopefully it won't be long before I cast that on.  I have always wanted to make felted clog slippers too.  Both of these projects will require felting and that's something I've never done.  I hope to get those started/finished before late fall so they will be ready when it gets cold again.  It's kind of cold now, but I will continue to use my two hats I made this fall/winter and not have homemade slippers for awhile.  I feel if I started these projects, I wouldn't get to wear them much as spring is around the corner.

So I think that's all the WIPs and dream projects I have right now.