If I thought I had a million WIPs before now I was wrong…

My third pair of French Press Felted Slippers – just needs sewing and felting

I haven’t finished a project in nearly 3 weeks…

Aestlight Shawl – Almost ready to start the lace pattern

That is a long time for me!  I could knit a sweater in all that time!…

Day’s Eye Hat – Started this with a KAL on Rav with the Obscuriosity Group but got distracted by school

But I have not knit a sweater…

Laminaria – Started this on a recent trip and it has languished since.  I’m rather afraid I don’t have enough yarn

Instead I have knit a couple rows here and a couple rows there…

Monkey Socks – I was really enjoying these but I still don’t have more than a couple of inches of cuff finished

And made very little progress…

Another pair of French Press Slippers – Lacking only sewing/felting

On a lot of different things…

Reflection Hat – I know this one looks done but I still have to weave the ends in before I can give it to its intended recipient

Part of the problem is that this semester I am lucky enough to have a class that I can knit for!  Not during, but for class!

I am working on an Art Minor for my degree and one of the required classes is Color & Design.  In this class we are exploring different design principles and each week our homework is to do a project based on whatever principle we talked about in class.

We are allowed to use whatever medium we want so I have been knitting all of mine.  It’s been really fun but hasn’t left much time for knitting anything else.

Color & Design Week 1:  Unity/Variety

Unity

For this project I knit two watchcaps based on the Marsan Watchcap pattern (I made one for Lou for his b-day but don’t have a pic).  For the Unity version I knit it basically just as the pattern dictates but without the folded brim (for time constraint reasons).

Variety

For the Variety hat I randomized the twisted ribbing.  For each rib on the hat I would flip a coin to determine whether it stayed straight or moved and then I would flip another coin to determine whether it moved left or right.

The other two projects for my Color & Design class I have not been able to finish.  The instructor told us that it wasn’t important whether they were finished but we should present them in class and once I’ve done that and moved on to the next project I haven’t  had time to go back very much.

Here they are in their WIP state:

Week 2:  Emphasis

and

Week 3:  Scale/Placement

I’m hoping to get all caught up over Spring Break (3rd week of March) or before that.  I will definitely share the projects here when they are done!

This week I am working on some flippy-top mittens and exploring balance in design.  I hope to have some pictures of them soon!

by alligator on February 22, 2010