A few months ago I succumbed to peer
pressure and purchased the ubiquitous Beekeeper's Quilt pattern...
and my sock yarn leftovers are slowly dwindling down... which is a
great thing! I have about 60 puffs at this point, and my goal is
somewhere around 500. Admittedly, I fell off of the bandwagon for
about a month and a half, and did a total of about 6 puffs for that
month.
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| ShiBui, Knitted Wit, and Koigu are just a few! |
Now, with a semi-renewed zeal for the
project, I've been doing about a puff a day (sometimes more), but at
least one. I would love to have this done for Christmas, but I'm not
going to hold myself to that, merely due to winter craft show and
gift making season.
I have used everything from ShiBui Sock
and Staccato, Knitted Wit's Bling, some leftover Sanguine Gryphon
from Sock Summit, to cheaper stuff like Patons Kroy and Lion Brand
sock... Slowly but surely, I'm getting there! I like the
portability of this particular project, and it makes for great “Wait
for the kids to get out of school while sitting in the pick up line”
knitting. I just have to remember to bring the mini fiberfill bag
with me. Why yes, I do have a little fiberfill bag... you don't?
I don't want to assemble anything until
I have all of the puffs done, and I'm thinking that a Space bag or
two may be necessary to complete this particular project. Because
I'm using so much random yarn, some of them definitely have more
puffs of a yarn colorway than others do. I really don't want the
same ones to be close to each other, so I'm thinking waiting is the
only way I'm going to be able to go on this.
I'm looking forward to having this one
done, but in the meantime, it's perfect mindless TV knitting. I can
get a puff done in about half an hour, depending on interruptions,
and I have plenty of yarn waiting in the wings to be used!
