Ten on Tuesday: Ten Things You Want to Knit this Fall/Winter

This is easy.  

Just ten?  Perhaps that is the hard part:  limiting the list.  (The lazy knitter would insert link to Rav queue here, and link to Rav pdf library.  Cheaters never prosper.)

1.  Finish Grant Park pullover.  Have to join the sleeves, then the stitch count gets smaller with each row.  

2.  Annis.  Have the yarn.  Knitty pattern.  Just do it!

3.  Pueblo.  Carol Sunday's lovely fringey scarf.  Winter is coming.  Knitting from stash.  

4.  Nightbirds.  Another Carol Sunday lovely.  It is started, need to buckle down and make progress. Do I need to say it again?  Winter is coming.

5.  Jadis.  Have yarn.  Have pattern.  Gauge swatch lies.  I will simply start a sleeve as more realistic gauge swatch.  Gird my loins for the great frog.  It is all part of the process.  Ommmmmm.

6.  Vodka Gimlet.  Hoo boy.  No knitting from stash.  I ordered the yarn and pattern from Plucky Knitter during her Gimlet-athon.  Love Thea.  Love Plucky.  I need say no more.

7.  Bryony.  Just do it.  Knit from stash.  Want this top.  Love Amy.  My knitting is NEVER seasonally appropriate.

8.  Foglifter.  Again.  This time in another of Kim's yarns.  Opal, which is MCS.  Colorway Stormy.  Now that the yarn is in my greedy little hands, does this count as knit from stash?  No?  Damn.

9.  Moonshadow stole.  Another batch of Kim yarn (Lark).  Knit from stash.  Love Kim!  Looking for the right beads for this one.  Circling around EarthFaire's megatamas in crystal.  Little drops of water in the moonlight.

10.  Roxbury Pond shawl.  Great textures!  Need yarn.  Or will find yarn in stash when I finally get around to updating the stash organization.  (Soon.  Rilly.  I promise.)

Mr. E's family pulled strings to get us into Alinea in Chicago during our visit earlier this summer.  (BIL and Chef have sons in the same Boy Scout troop.)  I had to pull out my iPhone to video dessert.  It is the first dessert ever that takes 5 minutes to serve. 

 

And afterwards?  Two fat and and happy diners waddled back to the car, leaving a scene of culinary devastation behind:

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Lynn]

I will not knit everything Laurie knits, I will not knit everything Laurie knits - OK, maybe Annis, since it's cast on, and Roxbury Pond, because it's so cool and would be stunning in handspun, and Nightbirds would be quick, even if I turn it into gloves - oh, wait, I have colorwork gloves cast on already, somewhere in the house.

Breathe deeply, Lynn. You don't have to knit everything, you don't have to knit everything...

[margene]

And then you eat it?
Jadis is a sweater I wear often. Starting the sleeve is a good way to go, but remember it grows by inches when wet. Good luck with your queue, but it is time to get the wooly knitting going!

[Carole]

That's an ambitious list you've got there. The dessert looks fun but I'm confused. How do you eat it?

[Caroline M]

I would like to find something I really want to knit, at the moment I'm trying to talk myself into projects and that ends up in a ripping session. It's not cold enough here yet for me to have my usual love of wool.

[Anne]

Hm... I think right now my problem is that my NEED to knit list of projects is wayyyy longer than my WANT to knit list of projects. That is a problem.

[Lorette]

That is one interesting knit list, and one yummy looking dessert. So who gets to clean up the mess??

[--Deb]

I've had my eye on Talamh for a while now. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/talamh My biggest problem is I keep forgetting the name and how it's spelled!

Was that a blow torch I saw??

Mom and I were just reminiscing about how we'd take my Grandmother to restaurants where you drew on the (paper) tablecloths or threw peanut shells on the floor and she could never bring herself to do it. I don't know WHAT she would think of this dessert!

[gayle]

Gee, thanks. Now MY list is many projects heavier...
Those all look like fun-to-knit and fun-to-wear. Lovely lineup! (And good luck.)

[Marcy/Habetrot]

Is good to have goals. Yikes, woman!

That is one crazy dessert. What did he do with the blowtorch?

[claudia]

Wow. Just wow. I might have been caught licking the table.

[Phyllis]

Love your list, but it would take me the rest of my life to do! BTW, do you know Ruella ( which is very invasive in the South and a major annoyance even if beautiful)(I remember the name b/c it rhymes with Cruella) comes in other colors--pink, and white, I think (not that I would ever personally buy it!).

[Melissa G]

Like Caroline M, I've talked myself into a project which has been restarted 3 times (all 369 stitches of it). The other is a "crunchy" wool sweater I WILL finish. Good stuff in the queue, though I have to get there through these. Right now it seems most of my knitting is in my head.

[sarah]

The problem with a dessert served on the table is that there's no way I can think of to surreptitiously lick the last bits clean. Do you still want to meet for lunch before SOAR?

[Hillary]

I only looked at one or 2 of the projects on your list before I realized that it was a big mistake. My list was already ridiculously long before I had the baby who takes up all mu spare time.

I did watch the video though and it's fascinating. I can't decide if it looks delicious or really messy. Certainly unusual.

[Karen]

Hi! My jealousy knows no bounds - Alinea! Remarkable. I have read the recent cookbook and Grant's autobiography, and I can't imagine eating at his restaurant and meeting him. I haven't watched your video yet (this computer is too slow) but have saved the link for when I get to a faster machine.

Looking at your list, I can only comment on Annis - made it in Panda Silk, and loved it. Then gave it away to someone whose favorite color it happened to be; I can always make another.

Now I am afraid to look at the rest of your list - my to-do list is plenty long enough, and I am afraid I will like everything!