What knitting thing are you excited about today?

[runner5]

My granddaughter showed me a YouTube "tutorial" for designing a Barbie dress. Actually it was a disguised ad of a toy. It was a dress form with a slit in the back so the child could drape fabric and jam it in the slit. She's a rising first grader but managed to figure out her Barbie would never be able to wear the dress if she used it as it was designed.

I remembered the cuff of a child's sock often fits Barbie as a strapless dress and it hit me that I could easily knit a tube. Then it hit me that I have a new use for leftover sock yarn.

If that wasn't enough, I realized I could send her letters after I leave with little bits and bobbles she can use to decorate her "sock" Barbie dresses (buttons, sequins, ribbon, etc.) It will be a fun way for us to connected when we aren't visiting.

If anyone is interested and still reading, 20 stitches around on size 1 1/2 needles seems to fit Barbie pretty well (she has a modern one that has smaller boobs (thank God) than the one I grew up with. Her proportions seem more realistic.

So what are you excited about?

[AndieG]

This is an awesomely me idea. I have so much leftover yarn and two great nieces. I feel lots of dresses coming!

[5xhappy]

I recently got hold of Rowan Truesilk in black. As I love to wear black silk turtleneck most of the time, apart from hot summer days, I am looking forward to making it.

[lsmrcd]

So much yarn... so many pattern ideas! Yesterday I got my Golden Autumn off the needles and I hope I can convince myself to block it before next year This week I will be starting a fairisle tam to prepare for the class I will be taking this Sunday at Stitches Midwest. As for what is next, that is an uncertainty since I will be yarn crawling for the next 3 days followed by Stitches starting on Thursday. Who knows what I shall find.

[annekepoot]

I was recently excited about making a shawl, something I had never made before. Found a pattern I liked and had yarn in my stash. Plowed through two weeks of working on it and in the end I hated it. Once I feel "over it" I will frog and wait until the yarn tells me what it really wants to be. In the meantime, back to old reliable socks.

[ILVLUCY]

runner5 What a great idea! My 2 oldest gd don't play with barbies anymore, but I have one that's 5. I might be stealing your idea. I especially love the idea about her decorating the dress. I can see her (and her Momma) loving this!

[runner5]

Today I'm excited about several things - my no brainer project is going well, and I found a cute Barbie dress pattern on line.
http://barbiebasics.tripod.com/barbi...sfreeknits.pdf
You'll have to scroll down to see them. I started one but haven't gotten very far. Just saying I haven't tested these patterns but I have high hopes.

How are y'all handling your knitting ques? I think I have one in Evernote but I need to check. Pinterest may actually work better. My ADD is firing off pretty badly. One way I control it is to have a sweater project going, a mindless project and a small project (usually socks) all going at once. It's varied enough to keep me interested.

(But I want a que that I can throw every idea in and rearrange every time I feel like it.)

[lsmrcd]

With the help of the Chicago Yarn Crawl, I have added too many projects to my knitting list and the crawl isn't over yet! While pining on the work yesterday, I was thinking what I was going to do to keep track and this morning decided I am going to do the low-tech method of writing it down in my bullet journal. With this method I will get myself away from the computer trap and spend more time knitting.

[HeatherAthebyne]

runner5 I use a Trello board for my queue and WIPs. I have columns for my backlog/queue, in progress, needs blocking, needs photography, needs frogging (because who doesn't have a few of those around), and complete (because it isn't really fun to just archive the card when you're done). I also have my projects tagged by item type and whether I have the yarn/pattern for it already or not.

I'm not entirely sure how I got there, but I'm excited about socks done with fingering sock yarn! The least unique thing to be excited about, I know It's new to me, though, because up until now I've only made socks in thicker yarns and I thought that fingering weight on tiny 0 needles would drive me insane. I tried it a year or two ago and hated it. Now, I've got six inches into a sock and am still loving it -- perhaps I've just gone the right amount of insane.

[turtlefolK]

Today I am just excited to be knitting on the second sock :-)