submissive knitter

I was trying to stick to just one project (Dew Point) and it was going fairly well until I had to pick up stitches. The pattern was written so that there's no number of stitches given-you're told to pick up 3 stitches for every 4 cast on stitches and pick up 2 stitches for every 3, ending with a multiple of 6. Which was waaaaaay out of my comfort zone. I'm a submissive knitter-tell me what to do, boss me around, punish me if I don't follow the pattern but for the love of cupcakes give me a stitch count!!

So I just picked up a fuckload of stitches and hoped for the best. I was over by a couple-I dhad to do some k2togs to get my multiples of 6 and have managed to knit a few rows of the fussy (but pretty) Italian Chain ribbing.  But, it's a lot of knitting that I have to pay close attention to-I have to actually devote serious time to knit one row of the ribbing. I don't always have the opportunity to devote that time, so I picked up the other shrug. The shrug by Lion Brand is pretty straightforward knitting, 3x3 ribbing for however many inches, then stockinette. And eventually back to the ribbing. Super easy, and fairly portable. At this point anyway. It gets weird at the finishing-I'll have to seam up the arms to a certain point then pick up stitches and do some ribbing. or something. I haven't exactly read through the whole pattern yet. haha. 

And then something else happened...it got kind of chilly. Chilly enough to wear socks *blargh* but also *yay* because I wore some socks I knit myself! socks -remember these? I still lurve them. This  made me realize that I will probably have to start wearing socks on a regular basis and since I gave most of my knit socks away I'd better start knitting more socks, so I picked up the second celtic sock and knit another inch, knit the heel (eye of partridge-so pretty) and turned the heel (still fun!)  and now I'm knitting the gusset decreases,

So nothing is getting finished, it feels like I'm not getting anywhere with any of the projects since I'm bouncing around the three of them and I'm itching to start more projects. I still have some hat patterns in mind, socks (especially now), plus i still need to start my new leethal mary janes since the old ones didn't fit (and the yarn has been sitting in cookie tins waiting to be used for over a week) and I want to start knitting a pullover-I have some ideas for adding some colour work to a plain black pullover, thinking little octopi above the ribbing at the bottom, or little skulls, or maybe bad-ass little llamas...

WIP pictures-

Dew point:

Lion Brand Shrug:

Celtic Sock: