Anyone who knows me at all can tell you that I never do things by halves and I try to do far to many things at once.
To start the year I decided to “focus on finishing” a quantity of projects including three shawls, a pair of socks and some colour work mittens. Unfortunately when I focus on finishing projects I always seem to dream up new projects in my head. Plus I find an excuse to start a new project or two as well. So the out come of finishing eyjafjallajokull was that I promptly cast on a shawl for a friend’s birthday and while knitting it dreamed up the plan for a new pattern for a baby gift x two (twins)
The baby pattern was inspired by a vintage pattern and started life as this very clear picture released to twitter.
Not totally surprisingly this caused some comment and to be honest in the true spirit if agile development, it did go through a couple of iterations before it became this:
There was a bit of a stall as my sleeve plan was a bit of a fail – and while I was knitting the boy version I was inspired to have a more feminine version as well – which I started on the plane home from Christchurch on Sunday …
And because some weeks are kind of lazy weeks – it stuck there as I have been driving rather than catching the train and when I knit at night I have been virtuously working on one of my focus on finishing projects which I had really wanted done by Sunday as it is another present. There are about 20 rows of the border to go so I think I am being overly optimistic.
And of course as I knit I start thinking…
