In the current knitting vocabulary, UFO stands for "UnFinished Objects". Yesterday on Facebook Lion Brands yarns posted "Click Like if you are working on 3 or more projects".
Three or more projects? I have more than three projects just in my living room by my "craft chair". For me, knitting is more about the process than a finished product. I knit to relax, and sometimes the most relaxing thing I can do is to experiment with new yarn, a new combination of yarns, or trying a new stitch pattern- most projects eventually get finished..or frogged.
(Frogged is another technical knitting term- it means unraveling what you've stitched, in other words "rip it, rip it" sounds like the "ribbet, ribbet"- the sound a frog makes.)
One easy and fun project I'm working on is a "stash buster"- I'm using all the little bits of leftover balls of pastel yarn to make an afghan. I have another UFO stash buster afghan in darker colors, too- but it's in my UFO closet.
It's knit on the diagonal and the same pattern you use to make a knitted cotton wash cloth- Cast on 3 stitches, knit 2, YO knit to the end of the row. That YO (yarn over) makes the each row of the afghan one stitch longer than the row before and gives you the little tiny eyelet on the edge of the afghan.
When you can't fit any more stitches on your needle, or it gets so heavy that you need help moving it- you decrease a stitch every row.
This is a cotton scarf with a pretty easy lacy pattern. When I get tired of knitting on this....
...I move on to this scarf. This is something I haven't knit before- an "inset panel". The pattern is for the nine stitches in the middle. I've "inset" them into a scarf, but the inset could be in a cardigan, vest, poncho, or afghan.
The little knitted strawberries are stitch markers to let me know when to start and stop the pattern. I'd really never used them until Karla gave me a bunch of cute ones for birthday and they help so much.
So that's THREE of the projects I have "on the needles".
By the way, 5918 people clicked "Like" on the Lion Brand post- I guess I'm not alone.
