Casting On

I’m being very bad just lately. I keep casting on new projects left and right.

I think perhaps I’m still trying to make up for Christmastime when I was restricted to finishing certain projects on a definite time line. Now that I don’t have that strict “to-do” list, I’m just starting things willy-nilly, all over the place.

I actually started a spreadsheet of friends and family that I want to knit socks for. Yes, a spreadsheet — shut up. I’m on a mission to turn everyone on to the wonders of hand-knitted socks… which really is a bad idea, I suppose, because it makes more work for me in the long run. Unless of course I can convert them to being knitters as well… hm.

But anyway.

So I have an ongoing list of people I want to knit socks for. I have two pairs of socks on the needles right now: one is the second sock to the pair from the Neighborhood Knit Shop’s sock club and the second is a pair of Monkey socks that I’m knitting two at a time (pictured to the right).

I worked on both socks last night. I got the toe to the sock club socks done and I got through the first repeat of the lace chart on the monkey socks.

Then I decided I was sick of sock knitting. I decided to start a scarf instead.

The yarn is Schaefer Susan. This was another goody I picked up at the Schaefer trunk show at my LYS several months back. I actually only snatched it up originally because I liked that the colorway was called “Minnie Pearl” — I thought it was rather appropriate, living here in Nashville and all.

The pattern I’m working on is called the Susan Undulating Waves Scarf. It’s actually the scarf that the ladies going on the Neighborhood Knit Shop’s knitting cruise this week will be working on. But alas, I will not be going to Cozumel (*sigh*), so I’ll be knitting up my scarf’s waves without being able to enjoy the ocean’s waves at the same time. (Hope you gals all have lots of fun though! Bring home lots of sunshine!)

This pattern also marks my first attempt at knitting with beads. So yay… another new thing I’ve tried!

As if three projects weren’t enough, I still have my drop stitch scarf, hexagon blanket and Juno stole hibernating in my knitting basket someplace.

AND, on top of all that, I’m extremely tempted to cast on one more scarf. Why? Because I finally caved and bought a skein of the Baby Alpaca Grande that I’ve been lusting after. This stuff is seriously some of the softest fiber you’ll ever touch.

As if I need to start knitting something else. But ya know, an alpaca scarf isn’t very practical in the warm weather, so if I’m going to knit it, I should probably really start it now, right?

Is anyone else out there going through cast-on fever right now like I am? I can’t be alone in this.