Liz tagged me

Make a List of all the Different types of items you’ve knitted and completed:

• Sweaters
• Socks
• Scarves
• Hats
• Gloves
• Mittens
• Shawls
• Bags
• Um . . . swatches?

Of all the things you’ve knitted what was your favorite type and why?

I like sweaters best. Something “meaty” to dig my teeth into, but not so huge or long that I’m bored silly by the time it’s done. (Like, say, a scarf. I have yet to find a scarf pattern that’s interesting all the way from one end to the other. Just, the best you can say about some of them is that they’re quicker than others.) The other thing about sweaters? You have something gorgeous to wear when you’re done which, unlike gloves, scarves, and hats, you get to wear all day; and which, unlike socks, people actually see. And they’re also endlessly interesting–so many different styles and techniques just for the mere shaping of the sweater alone, not even counting the things like cables, fair isle, lace, stitch patterns, colors . . .

Like Liz, though, I’ll also put a word in for lace. I love watching the pattern appear, and more than anything else, I LOVE the magic that is blocking for lace. It’s one of my absolute favorite knitting things to do–take a crumpled, holey mass of yarn, wet it, and pin it out into something so absolutely beautiful it surprises even the knitter.

List the types of items you haven’t finished yet, but intend to either finish or knit at some point.

I don’t really have that many UFOs, and I’ve tried at least samples of most of the techniques I’m interested in, but on the “wish list” for future knitting projects:

• An afghan–I’ve crocheted baby-afghans, but have never actually knitted one.
• An Aran sweater–I’ve done cables, but have never put them together for a classic like that.
• A true Fair Isle sweater–I’ve used the technique, but mostly for Scandinavian-style sweaters. I’ve never done a real Fair Isle pattern.
• A Shetland Lace Wedding Ring shawl–the real thing, no “cheat” rows of purl or knit in between the lace on gossamer yarn . . . just because it would be amazing.

Tagging . . . I’m not naming any one in particular . . . just . . . consider yourself tagged!

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