WIP me with your finish stick!

WIP me slowly, WIP me quick.

It is the Walk of Shame today.

Let us begin on a positive note:

Gorgeous Gördes

The Gördes sock is a thing of joy. It progresses, if slowly. The toe approaches at last, however.

I took a dozen photographs of this sock and not one comes even close to showing it in its true glory. The colour is nothing like the one shown here.

G̦rdes is a deeply satisfying project to knit and a real feast for the eyes. The back of the sock is the part that I find most pleasing РI really love the heel detail, though the curlicues on the front come a close second.

I can’t see a full pair of socks coming to fruition much before the end of this month but I can guarantee that they will have been worth the wait.

Ferry Blankie

The last few days have seen a few squares added to my sock yarn blanket – six, in fact.

Looking good, isn’t it? I am working at levelling it off and moving from a newly-straight border at the left along the top to the right. I want to get over there quickly and work some red into the blanket. I recently appealed for some red yarns and pmcblonde very kindly sent me a package. There are some very nice reds in it and I can’t wait to add a little fire to the blanket.

And The Rest

I did something the other day that I have been intendng to do for ages. I went into the UFO basket — head first, without a safety net – and I (wait for this….) listed all my projects.

There were 41 WIPs.

FORTY-ONE!

I have a spreadsheet and I am going to use it to decide a finishing order. It will help me stick to the Finish 2, Start 1 discipline that I have imposed in order to reduce the pile.

Forty-one…

sigh

I could lose a few by frogging them. One or three, anyway. The blanket will be a live project for a long time so hardly counts as a UFO and there will always be a pair of simple socks in progress for ferry knitting. Shall we say 35 UFOs for completion, then? Just as a rule of thumb…

Here they are:

And, if you think I am going to link all those projects to their appropriate Rav pages, you can jolly well think again.

They are not all listed at Ravelry, but those that are may be found here.

Just one thing – I added a rough note of how long each project might take to complete (in elapsed time), either weeks or days. The cumulative total appears to be around 46 weeks.

Step 1: Admit the problem

I think I need a lie down.

Give me a few days and I might come up with a plan of action. I am as yet undecided whether to target the 1 and 2 day projects in order to reduce the list quickly, or just go for the ones that I feel most like knitting.

I would like to end this year with few enough works in progress to count on the fingers of a single hand. And I don’t mean a hand of bananas.

UPDATE

14/02/11  – after frogging 6 projects, there are 35 remaining

24/02/11 – 31 projects remaining

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