It's Time To Frog!

I started making another Starghan for my mom to give at a baby shower, but for the life of me couldn't get it to lie flat. Since it's acrylic yarn, I knew I couldn't block it, plus it just DID not want to be flat. At all.

While deliberating, I started making a Ripple Afghan. While researching patterns on Ravelry, I came across a CAL that had started ripples the day before! Yay! That was all I needed to get started. My leftover skeins from the Starghan are clearly not going to be enough yarn, so it looks like I've figured out what to do with the Starghan. Time to rip!
I have a lot more in the Mint colorway than I do Duckie, so I decided to make just a thin yellow stripe every 5 rows. I like it so far - it's different, and doesn't look like the 70's Ripple afghan from my gramma's basement :) That's coming next, with all of the orangey/redy/peachy yarn donated from Bumpa's sister!
(All of my GVSU afghan squares are done, most ends woven in, just sitting there in a big stack watiting, patiently, to be put together. Ugh)
(Oh, and Sweet Dreams? Two strips are also patiently waiting in the box for me to make four more and stitch them together. Someday.)

WIP

I am really, really terrible at finishing things before starting a new project. After talking to the hubs the other night, I need to use up some of my stash yarn before I will not feel guilty about another KnitPicks order. I have a bunch of $0.99 yarn I got from Michael's before they'd changed over yarn departments, so it's time to get to work on using some of it up. Really, I should finish the GVSU afghan and the deer first, but I'm at a stalemate with the deer and I'm SO BORED of making squares. I started my next Starghan even though it doesn't need to be done until September (I think). Since the last one was so quick, I figured it would make a significant dent in my stash fairly quickly. I guess we'll see, though.

The deer is giving me issues. I made a foot following the same thought process as the body (using sc instead of knitting and modifying the # of rows as I go to keep the shape somewhat on) and it absolutely did not work. It was very awkward looking. This means I'm going to have to be more inventive with it, which also means more thinking and less soap-watching. I'm not in the mood for that right now, so I guess the deer will be hibernating until I am feeling up to the challenge.

The Sweet Dreams throw is also taking a quick nap. I discovered that I have been knitting wrong my entire life - I was wrapping the yarn backwards when doing a knit stitch (but correctly when purling), so all of my stitches have been twisted. Luckily the Suri Dream yarn is pretty forgiving, so you can't even tell, but now I'm torn. Should I make the next 4 strips correctly, or should I stick to the backwards-ness for this project and THEN correct my stitches on the next project? I've noticed that it changes my gauge ever so slightly (just a bit looser the correct way), so I'm pretty sure I'll continue incorrectly so I don't have to worry about very differently sized strips, and I know they will all behave (stretch and lie) the same way.