Must not knit all the THINGS

Knit all the THINGS is in full force. The toe-up socks are progressing nicely. The shawl has no progress from this weekend and DH's sweater has been cast on. As I said, must knit all the things! I had to stop myself from casting on a cowl, a toddler sweater, mittens, and a hat. I don't even know what patterns I would use for most of these items. The cowl would have been fingering weight and colorwork.  The mittens would also be colorwork while the toddler sweater would have been the same pattern as DH's pattern. The hat, I have no idea what techniques it would use. Oh WAIT, I need a scarf too.

OK, I need to come back from the edge a little bit. 3 projects, 2 of which are larger projects are quite enough. Pull it back a little for sanity's sake. Oh, I could use a blanket too.  Beep Beep Beep, backing the truck up 3 projects are enough, more than enough. Focus on the socks, sweater, and the shawl.

Socks; OK the socks on the needles. This weekend I finished the foot and turned the heels. For these socks I'm doing a short row heel. Typically, short row heels don't go deep enough for my high arch. This time, I decided to go a little further on the short row than my usual 12-14 un-wrapped stitches. I left a total of 8 un-wrapped stitches to see if the extra stitches give the little bit of additional fabric I need for a good fit. Looking at the heel now, it may be a little pointy and not a lot of depth to it. Time will tell. In the meantime, I'll continue to knit the leg until I run out of yarn.

Next up, I took time Saturday afternoon to run errands without help. Amazing! DH stayed home from work with the man cold/bug. While the boys went down for their afternoon nap DH played computer games and I went to the LYS, Michaels, and the grocery store. Totally AWESOME! I picked up an extra cable for my interchangeable Hiya-Hiya needles and the connector from InThe Making. From there, I went to Michaels for Caron Simply Soft (approximately 2200 yards needed) and finally the grocery store for food stuffs.

DH's Sweater is made out of acrylic yarn because he doesn't want scratchy yarn and I have some doubts as to how much he'll actually wear the sweater. I was cruising sweater patterns the other day for some odd reason and pulled up Flax by TinCanKnits. When I showed DH, his response was that's not a bad sweater. When he says something like that, he does really like it because normally I get an "eh" from him. Plus, I can knit 2 more toddler sized sweaters that will match Daddy's Sweater. That way I might, just maybe, have a shot at the boys wearing a sweater. So after I bought the yarn, I cast on that evening. Then I knit 2 rounds before I discovered that something didn't look right. I twisted the join, first time EVER that I have twisted the join. Dang it. Oh well, casting on twice just prolongs the pleasure right?

The shawl has seen no love because clue 2 just came out Sunday and I don't watch Downton Abbey often. Such is life but sometime Monday the cheat sheet should come out and then I'll be able to work on the shawl. I will also work on not casting on more items than I have needles or yarn for. Wish me luck, I'm going to need it.