I know what you mean. I need to make a list for myself too. The ideas I have in mind for what to do next, I'm sure will go way beyond my ability, time and credit card limit at the rate I'm going. LOL!

I love that headband you made for Mini. So cute with the buttons!

I've sworn off lists and think I'll just see where the year takes me. But you have a great list there of techniques to learn. I still can't knit back backwards.

My list keeps growing and growing every day. The title of your post is so appropriate for me!

It's good to stay focused...your goals are attainable! I'm telling you, you've got a huge support system giving you props for trying new things and lovin' your honesty when you admit when you might have a setback or two. I know I'm excited to travel with you as you explore new knitting ground. Go Froggy, you're my hero!!!

I took a class with Annie Modesitt a few weeks ago. Her combination method of knitting does wonders for evening out tension issues. Ribbing also comes out looking fantastic. I highly recomend checking combination out.

You can cross socks off your list, and didn't you use short rows in the socks? I know what you mean about the resources at home. I love a pattern in a book, shelve it, forget it. If someone put it in another book, I might even be tempted to buy it b/c I wouldn't have remembered owning it in the first place.

I like your "techniques" approach to your list. Who says, however, that every new technique needs its own project? Could you combine, say, shortrows and intarsia in one project?

Go, Froggy. If there was ever a meme that was relevant, it would be something like this for us knitters. DO buy Stanley's book. I have borrowed that at least 10 times from the library now that I should just get it!

Great list you have here, Froggy ! I see 2 projects which are on mine too : FBS ad Birch, funny !

Woah! That's getting to be one cool list - certainly doable - definitely ambitious! Word of warning - one lace project underway and I'm totally hooked. Everything else has been shunted to the bottom of the pile.

See, the music and movie lists were easy. Trying to make a list of what I want to knit makes me want to curl up on the floor in a fetal position.

Froggy, I am totally with you on the book issue. It is that "grass is always greener" syndrome for me. Of course, there are ALWAYS going to be beautiful new amazing patterns, but I bought the books because the patterns in them were beautiful and amazing to me at one time... it is rediscovering that. :) Your list looks alot like mine... you just happen to be further along on it than me. Did you not tackle intarsia last year with that flower sweater for Mini? I have not even tried that yet...

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Take care!

i love your list! i'm with you on the utilizing books thing. woo hoo for combined knitting! i'll send you the little booklet that i got from annie when i first learned the combined method. it sure does do wonders for tension and feels eaisier on the wrists. i wish i remembered to use it more often!

what about doll clothes for mini? would she be into that? you could try out some of your techniques too. i have a book of doll clothes patterns (the clothes are cute, the dolls are kind of creepy) that i can send you too.

I NEED to learn how to knit backwards. I was just thinking earlier today that I should get out some scrap yarn and see what I can come up with. I'm intelligent, it can't be that hard, right? :)

Not a list girl myself, but YOU GO! Your library is WAY bigger than mine. I haven't bought a new knitting book...well...in forever. Personally, I think with Montse's book, and the Barbara Walker stitch treasuries, that is all I really need.

Great list - can't wait to see it all!

What's "combined knitting"? I think your list is good - I need to make one too! Happy Knitting, Froggy!

That's a great list! Very ambitious. I have the same thing (although much shorter and less challenging) in my head, although I should write it down. Can't wait to see you start whipping out the FOs!!

There are so much beautiful things to knit!

Here's my knitting list according to hubby :

- teach hubby to knit. period.

Let me know about THE Birch.

Happy knitting
Alice

in fact, i have to make a list too!!!it's difficult to remember all the projects i have in the head!I must choose some priorities....We 're all in the same case!!!

You have a lot to do this year ;-)
I would like to do such a list, too, but I think I must be happy if I can knit at all this year....

Lists? Man, mine keep growing. I have now started a list of projects I might do in the future, with the yarn/gauge and all that information, just in case I see yarn I want to buy, but don't know what to make with it.

Crazy? You betcha.

Thanks for your comment on Lara...I love this sweater, and I am so happy she turned out nicely. During the seaming I didn't think she would, but in the end, steaming the crap out of the seams worked wonders.

have a good one.

That is quite some list. I've got the same issues with patterns & books. Totally forget I have them. It's a sickness. We need to be immunized or something ;-) But...I know this sounds weird...I just love your handwriting! I have totally (it seems) lost my handwriting muscles and I always admire beautiful penmanship.

I think you're getting really focused with the list! Re your books: I hear you. I have a few pattern books and I rarely - if ever - use them. The only pattern "books" I actually use are the magazines I buy each season. The hardcover books get perused and then shelved. But my technique books...I can't sing enough praises all the time.

Mrs. Pilkington has been thinking about knitting toys for her young'un and I told her that I'd knit one with her to keep her company. I'll ditto that motion here! Knitting in two's is always more fun :-)

I ended up with Montse Stanely because of Becky too! Yesterday on the train I spent a strained hour trying to knit Continental - still can't get it to feel right but I think my stitches were okay. I am right there with you on learning new skills. My goal is more general - I want to be able to pick up any pattern, at any time, and KNOW that I can knit it to my (very) high expectations. Which means I feel like I need every skill under the sun.

I'm like you too in that I like to choose my projects for the new skills I will learn. I try to be challenged in every project I do - makes it so much more satisfying. I think it's great that you have set out goals for yourself - there's nothing better than checking things off the list - and no matter how frustrating it might be when I'm learning - I love having new skills under my belt! Kudos to you Froggy! You know I'm cheering you on!

A list is a list. Add to it whatever you want and then pick up from it whatever you feel like trying. Hobbies should bring peace, fun and enjoyment, not stress and guilt.

I have a Word doc of planned projects and projects already on the needles that's really shameful. I've got like twelve WIPs, and plans for thirty more. Thirty! It'd be nice if I could just buckle down and finish what I've already got going... Sigh. I'm happy to see socks are still on your list :)

I'm intrigued by the backward knitting idea, because I too purl looser than I knit. It took some time to realize it because I usually knit seed stitch or ribbed projects (or in the round). When I started on that sweater with a frill from Rebecca, done in plain old stockinette the problem really stuck out. Anyway, I'm babbling, but thanks for bringing up backward knitting, I'm now off to google it.

Lace is definitely my favourite knit: it's challenging and the outcome is always impressive. I'm not making any list, it would be too depressing to see how much stuff I want to knit and how much I actually get done!

ooo, combine # 9 and #10!! If you learn backwards knitting, going from left to right, right side facing you, you'll be doing left-handed combined. You insert the left needle into the back of the loop, the working yarn is still in your right hand, and you hook the yarn with the needle so it's passing from the bottom to the top of the needle - a simple hook and go, actually. as long as you remember to tug that yarn with your right hand after the stitch if off (if you do so when you're knitting right to left) your tension should be close. You can swatch and see if you need to tug more or less - look at the distance between the loops on the purl side though, the knit side can be deceivingly even.

Ha! I think I will just copy your list and follow along. I think you have made the most complete list in knitting history...I even want to do the toys!

Good luck!

I am soo bad about buying books for patterns, or ideas and then never reading them or making anything out of them. Although I can justify purchasing magazines that way, the books have gotten way outta control. (I do the same thing with cookbooks) My husband trys to convince me to utilize the library, but their selection of knitting books is so 1959's. I am going to work on making my books and mags more organized and accessible. Let's see if that helps us. Good luck with your other goals too!

Once again we have another project in common--the Flower Basket Shawl. I highly recommend this shawl. It is my first lace project and, while I have had to rip, rip, rip at the beginning, it is making lots of sense now. Thank goodness for lifelines. I think you would enjoy making this shawl and (according to the other KAL's in the Flower Basket Shawl Redux) it is an easy lace knit (yeah, right...If you are the Yarn Harlot).

where did you get the Hello Kitty pad?