Ugg.

Today is a day for talking about all the shit I'd like to do and yet don't have the time, skill, money and/or patience for.

I want to learn how to spin. I think it'd be awesome to make my own yarn from nothing. I see pictures on pages of piles of roving, some dyed, some not and I just think it would be the coolest thing ever to make a pile of fluff magically turn into a skein of pretty yarn. I've even been thinking about investing in a drop spindle to see if I'm any good at it, but even a drop spindle at this point is out of my range.

I'd like to hand-dye yarn, as well, beyond the simple kool-aid dying that is so very basic anyone could do it. I'd like to use different, better-quality dyes so that I can get more varied results as well. I see some beautiful hand-dyed yarn on the internet and I'd like to make something that cool.

I want - no, need - to learn both intarsia and fair isle knitting. My one attempt at intarsia that wasn't something as simple as the stripes on the Harry Potter scarf failed miserably and since ripping it out in frustration, I haven't tried it again. So much interesting work can be done with stranded knitting that I really want to learn it.

I'd like to make a cabled hoodie, such as Knitty's Mariah or the ever-popular Rogue, but I am far too nervous about upsizing to attempt it yet.

I'd like to buy the yarn to start working on my experimental upsized version of Kyoto to see if I managed to upsize the pattern successfully, but the lack of money (If I can't afford about $15 to spend on a drop spindle, I can't afford enough yarn to make Kyoto) and the fact that I still haven't figured out how much more yarn the pattern will take is stopping me.

I should sit and finish the projects I've already got started before starting anything new. I need to. I don't want to turn into someone who has an unfinished knitting pile so large it takes up an entire shelf.


Work on Clapotis: Coming along. I've finally gotten to the part where I can drop stitches! I've dropped the first row, and it... feels so unimpressive. *flail* Of course, the first dropped row is extremely short. I feel, at the same time, that this dropped row is encouraging me to knit the next twelve rows so I can drop another, but that I also don't want to do the work to get to the next row. Then again, I have been working on the Clapotis exclusively since last Thursday's SnB, so I'm thinking that I may just need to put it down and work on something else. Like casting on for the front of the 'Shapely Tee'. Or finishing that sock. Or the back to Banff. Or maybe doing some work on that afghan, or that other sock, or the irish hiking scarf...

Yeah, andI swore I'd not become one of those knitters who had more than 2 projects going at once.