Time again for a Barb -inspired Love Thursday entry.
Knitters on the various lists of which I'm a member constantly debate the merits of project faithfulness and bemoan startitis* as an ill to be overcome. If you've read this blog for any length of time, you already know that I'm rarely faithful to any project and that I love to start new projects with complete and utter abandon.
Today, I'm going to celebrate my startitis and show the projects I've started in June. Some of these will be completed soon, others will be frogged, still others will languish in the basket and get worked on by some occasional whim. Still, I'm happy with each of these for various reasons, and don't regret starting them at all.
I love having a stash that allows me the ultimate knitting pleasure of finding or creating a pattern I really want to knit, and being able to find enough yarn that will work just waiting patiently for its big scene.
I love being able to "see" what a yarn wants to be - same with fabrics - and then letting us create that together.
I love Mr. Ken because he not only doesn't care how much yarn I have, he thinks I should buy more!
I love the fact that I do finish at least 12 sweaters and 12 pairs of socks just on BART every year, and finish more while watching TV (even just a couple of hours a few times a week = a sweater every month or 2) and open mic listening.
I love (and hate) the fact that my creativity ebbs and flows, and that I have to take advantage of every creative opportunity I get. I'm still creating from doodles made 10 years ago - it's a good thing I keep my old DayTimers and notebooks!
A note of explanation: I love knitting cables and such, however, I cannot count for anything if I'm even a little distracted. We go to a lot of live music events - open mics, mostly - and I knit. For those times, I need relatively simple stockinette patterns. Several of these sweaters are based on the West Side Raglan pattern from Oat Couture.
1: Forget-Me-Not. The yarn is Wendy Rembrandt, bought a few years ago on eBay. In the skein and knitted, it reminds me of my yard in early spring when the grass is green and the forget-me-nots are blooming in drifts everywhere.
2: Tangerine Dream, yarn is from stash (I think it's called Tricadie, and I have it in a sage-y green and mellow as well). The yarn is a knitted ribbon, very easy to knit, and quite stretchy.

3: Southwestern Sky, also stash yarn. I bought this yarn at the Yarn Barn in San Antonio 12 or 14 years ago to make a Chanel-type jacket. Love the yarn, but I know now that it would be wrong wrong wrong for a jacket of any type.
4: Pearlspun is the yarn - creamy cotton with shiny coppery rayon bits. Some from eBay, and some bought from Lee Wards in the going-out-of-business sale about 1993!
5: Indian Corn, yarn from stash (what a surprise!) bought at Stitches West in two batches a year apart (maybe 8 years ago?).
6: Autumn Colors, more stash yarn bought at Stitches West sometime. It's a knitted ribbon tube, and feels like a t-shirt.
7: Too Teal, a Naturally Designs sweate, knit in Paton's Classic Merino. Color is Too Teal, which is really a rich turquoise color. I cannot get even close to the right color on my monitor. This will be relatively mindless soon, because the diagonal pattern is a simple repeat. I suspect I'll need a cheat sheet for the cable always.

8: Must Have Cardigan from Paton's Street Smarts brochure. Yarn bought from Stash! just for this sweater, and I never thought I say this: I wish the sweater was charted! I'm going to have to chart this puppy or I will love what remains of my mind knitting it.
9: Zig Zag Top: Yarn from stash, Horstia Tweed bought from Knitpicks back in the days when they didn't have their own yarns!
That's it for the sweaters. There might be a shawl, a hat, and 2 or 3 socks too, but they managed to escape the camera. In fact, there are still a few days left in the month, and there are a few more stash yarn projects I'd like to start! I need to poke around in the attic and bring the yarn down stairs...
*Startitis: The overwhelming urge to start new projects before existing projects are completed.