although only one resulted in a finished project. That was the Eye Cowl, a pattern from my Fellowship of the Knits book.
Sadly my grafted edge is not all I could wish, but then again, who is going to see it when I'm actually wearing the cowl? I did have a moment while knitting it, thinking that I didn't know where I could wear this; it's not everywhere you can go with the Eye of Sauron round your neck! But then someone at knit group told me she'd never heard of Sauron but the cowl was gorgeous colours, so I expect I can take it anywhere really.
After this I pulled out a thing called Catkin. According to my Ravelry project page I started this in 2012, and I have no memory of why I gave up on it. I took some time to work out where i was in the pattern, which is largely made up of multifarious charts so it took some time, tried knitting one row while juggling the requisite 14 stitch markers, and went wrong multiple times before accepting that my vision is just not good enough to follow the charts anymore. They're too small. I daresay I could have faffed about and done wonderful things with enlarging technology, but when I thought about it my enthusiasm for the pattern - well, I was going to say it had waned but the truth is it had evaporated altogether. No point in forcing yourself to slowly work your way through a pile of charts that are almost too small for you to make out if in the end you're going to end up with something you don't actually want. So I pulled it out ( or frogged as we say in the trade) and the yarn has gone back into stash where it will stay until next year when we reach the Year of Knitting up Random Stash Yarn as opposed to this year which is the Year of Finishing Wips and Kits.
That said I am about to go and cast on something new but it''s very small and very special and in theory will take me at most two evenings to complete. Well, we'll see how that goes.
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