My first update on my 2012 knitting New Year's resolution! Overall, I give myself a grade of C :(
On the bright side, I have started using up some of my leftovers from other projects. I made this great Spiral Twist hat using left over gray yarn from a scarf and odds and ends of Noro.
My husband and I regularly take Sunday walks in a nearby park, and I made this hat with those walks in mind. This hat is my first time doing stranded work - I'm happy with the color combination of gray with the striping Noro yarn. I wish I had thought a little bit more about how the colors would line up on the hat. I would have put the yellow and orange/coral color down by the base of the hat. Still, it's a nice warm hat for the cold weather season :)
I might have been successful at starting my stashbusting, but I failed on limiting my yarn buying.
It's only January 13th, and I've already bought new yarn:( I can't even say it was an impulse purchase, because I drove directly to the store with the intent to buying new yarn. But, in my defense, it was a great bargain. I bought this pound bag of 100% cotton yarn (factory mill ends - whatever that is) that is a perfect match for some variagated bamboo that I have left over from another project. This bag of yarn was $6.99 at AC Moore and I had a 50% off coupon!! So, I bought a pound of yarn for $3.49!
I plan to use this cotton yarn and the variagated bamboo to make a chevron pullover similar to the one that is on the cover of
Knitting Noro. Although I have no idea how much yardage is in my one pound bag of cotton, I'm sure it will be enough to make a pullover.
Okay, one more confession - I did buy some additional new yarn. But I do have a project in mind for it and it was on sale :)
How are you doing with your New Year's resolutions? What are your plans for new knitting projects?
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