Work in Progress

I have been strangely monogamous in my knitting lately. I have quite a few WIPs and a couple of things in my queue I have the yarn for, but most of the time I have been working on a shawl I am knitting for my mom for Christmas. It is the arctic diamonds shawl from an old issue of interweave knits and I find the combination of the cashmere yarn and the pattern rather enjoyable. Still, it's a very slow process and I am only about a third of the way there. I figure I may as well keep working pretty much exclusively on this one while I'm still enjoying it.

There are a couple of things that just need finishing. I knit a pair of Saartje's booties for a friend's baby yesterday evening and I have made a mesh market bag a few weeks ago that needs to be finished.

Now that I have finished my latest pair of socks, there are a couple of contenders to replace it as my tv knitting. I cast on a little mobius shawl out of some 4-ply alpaca, but I don't like working with the yarn. It is lovely and soft, but it makes my fingers itch after a while. There are always the socks I started for mom earlier this year, although I still don't know her shoe size. Or I could cast on for a new pair of socks. Or I could just get started on one of the jumpers and cardigans in my queue...

And of course, there's my WIP from hell - a cotton tank top I designed based on a vintage Hungarian pattern. I put way too much work into it to just frog it or throw it away, but I think it will be a while before I pick it up again.