Riding high on the thrill of finishing Whitehorse, I quickly cast on the Roxy Baby Cardigan by Erika Flory. I’m making the 24 M size, because I always make the biggest size I have the yarn for when knitting for a baby. Now that I’m on the boring body portion this will be my playground knitting.
My range shawl has grown a bit, but progress has slowed substantially. I plan on working on this in the evenings, as it is too big to travel with. I like how it is turning out.
I have several other WIPs languishing that I cannot bring myself to knit. I think I need to hold myself to Finishing Fridays until my WIP count is under control. When I have projects I don’t feel like knitting I tell myself I need to work on them on Fridays until they are done. Usually I fall back in love with the project and start working on it regularly.
How are your WIPs coming along?
mildlygranola 
Both your projects are great! I do the same thing with baby sweaters. It’s nice knowing they’ll grow into it:)
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As an added bonus I never feel like I need to do a gauge swatch when I knit the largest size of a baby sweater.
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Oh I love your idea of finishing Fridays – I may have to try that!
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Try it! It is amazing how helpful it is when you really want to be done with a project but you don’t want to knit it.
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Like my current sweater
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The pattern on the shawl is lovely. I’m in a very strange position where I don’t have many WIPs as I’ve had to frog a jumper as it was turning out too big. I have one shawl that takes so long on each row I get disheartened by its slow progress. I think I’m going to copy your finishing Fridays too. Then at least I’ll make some progress.
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I hope you try finishing Fridays. I have a shawl on the needles that is in the same spot as yours. I haven’t touched it in two months, and I’m sick of it taking up space.
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I need to ween myself of dishcloths that I’m totally obsessed with finding the perfect size and pattern but nearly out of the yarn, so I’ll dig Void out this evening. It’s easily 3 months since I last knit a row on it.
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Oh man I need coffee. I saw the photo of Roxy in my feed and thought “I don’t remember making a post about my Flax again”. So special 😉
The shawl is gorgeous, all the colours are beautiful and go so well together.
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I hope you have had some coffee now. You obviously have great taste in colors.
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So much coffee. It’s magic!
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Amen!
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Nowhere fast. I did three rows on the blanket this morning when I should have been packing boxes!
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With the stress of needing to pack you needed to take time to crochet a bit to relax. I think you could call it medicinal crafting.
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I like your thinking
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Looking good! I am making progress. Well, a little.
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Most of my projects are making no progress. I am lucky to have found a few things to become addicted to so I’m knitting again.
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Finishing Friday is a great idea 🙂 Your shawl and the baby sweater are both beautiful 🙂 Love the color progress and the pattern bands of your shawl! It looks really cushy too!
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I’ve spent the day ignoring Finishing Friday so I could sneak in a row here and there on the shawl. I’ve never been so happy to wait for an oil change in my life.
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That’s a good project! Always a treat to find something you really enjoy making 🙂 And hey – you are finishing that, so it counts!
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Gorgeous colors!
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Thank you!
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[…] to slow down their manufacture and save some yarn for next year too. On the Mildly Granola blog, she was talking about having ‘Finishing Fridays’, where she concentrates on […]
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