Currently on my needles: September ’24

During hot weather, I tend to crochet more for some reason. I often make bags or hats during the summer. Or any other cotton or raffia project I fancy. Last year I knitted a lace cardigan from lyocell yarn, and started a t-shirt from linen yarn that I stashed away because knitting with 3mm needles turned out to take an eternity, it was already mid-autumn and I still had managed to do ⅔ of the project.

At the beginning of this summer, I had ideas for 2 tops, started designing them and bought the pattern for two more. Then I bought the yard for one of the patterns I bought and one of my designs. I was looking for the yarn of the other two tops, but I suddenly decided this was ridiculous. And I stopped my yarn shopping and project plotting.

In all honesty 2023 was a year full of UFOs. I had planned to change this and wanted to alternate with new projects and finish the UFOs. And my summer knit plans went totally against that resolution.
I also realised that I tend to make plans for knits on a monthly basis, then get yarn and cast on… and then the season changes and I have 3 or 4 projects on the go, which I then stash to start a whole lot of new projects, repeat the entire thing all over again in 3-4months.

So I did not cast on my lace cardigan design, because I had already started my summer top.

I’ve been pretty good about it. But I am a slow-mo, so I am still knitting the same thing since mid-July in mid-September.
I am determined to finish it, hope it will only be another 2 weeks or so. I am not casting on anything. I haven’t bought yarn in several months as well. Once this is done I am thinking of starting a winter project (I got this idea and the yarn last February) which will take me at least 3 months. And I am planning to have small projects on the side. So just two things on the go. I hope to remedy the 3 socks suffering from single-sock-syndrome during autumn.