Thursday, August 6, 2009

Summer Reruns and Surveys

Just as the summer television is populated by reruns, my summer knitting is revisiting all of the UFOs in my work basket. I am determined to finish as many of these little buggers as I can before taking the plunge on new projects. So far, I have finished the kestrel socks and am working my way through the Elizabethan ruffle scarf. These are fairly recent projects, so this has not been so very painful. However, I dread the bottom of the basket that is filled with really old UFOs -- like some of the very first projects that I started a few years ago when I picked up my knitting needles again after a many year hiatus. Is my gauge still the same? I don't think so -- I started out as a very tight knitter and now I always have to go down two sizes or more on the recommended needle size to get gauge.
I have also started an ambitious (read: crazy) project to inventory all of my yarn stash. The theory behind this is that I can scan my inventory for yarn for new projects and stop buying so much! So far, have inventoried about half of the stash and am organizing it by weight of the yarn. Ravelry's yarn function has been really helpful with this. Only found one yarn not listed on Ravelry so far.