On going projects

There's nothing new or exciting starting or even going on with my knitting at the moment.

• The stripy socks
  
  My love for sock knitting has been severely hamped by the reality of using 5 x 2.5 m needles. It's progressing pretty consistantly but it's so bloody slow! Also, the self-patterning wool is cool but in reality there is only one pattern and that has already repeated itself three times. I suppose it didn't help that I read a fantastic soul food cook book recently that had a graphic recipe for chitterlins (pig intestines) and now as I knit this pink tube my imagination has been hijacked by inappropriate porcine anatomical images.
  
  




• The blue and green cardigan
  
  Yeah, well this one has been on the back burner for weeks. I can't work out how to join the stitches to knit the button band on the side and the frustration is too offputting on continue. I did even try on Sunday morning but ended up pulling out all the ribbing and joined on stitches because it looked so shoddy. I'm not a perfectionist by any stretch of the imagination but this is my best piece so far and I'd like to end as well as it started.



• The alpaca fingerless mitts
  
  
  
  They are both mostly finished but the second one still needs to be sewed up. Oh, and I have yet to knit on the thumb bit. The pattern also had a crocheted flower on the end which I didn't pay attention to because I have no idea how to crochet - or indeed don't own the right needle. So they are unfinished. And it's summer so I guess there's a good six months before I might need them (either for myself or a handy gift) and I'm not panicking.



• More bloody bunnies
  
  I accidentally agreed to make my boss two rabbits for his grandchildren (I assume). However he wants them the same as Isobel which means I have to go out and get some wool. Sure the pattern was cute to begin with but now I am seriously bored! (Oh, I found the reference: it comes from Toy Knits by Debbie Bliss. Ella says you can justify buying a pattern book if you can see at least three patterns you plan to make. Is it still economical/justifiable if you only use one pattern but use it more than three times? )