Finish It February

 A YouTube channel that I watch regularly is hosted by a woman in Minnesota named Roxanne Richardson.  She is a Certified Master Hand Knitter, and a techie and teacher.  

One of the January videos was about the month she calls "Finish It February".  I loved the concept!  If you have UFOs (unfinished objects) you take the month of FEbruary and try to finish them off.  Out go the UFOs, in come FOs, or things you can actually USE.  

What a concept!

She hosts a group on Ravelry.com and invites people to discuss and post their UFO/FOs in February.  Not being brave enough to do that, and be shown up, I posted mine to Facebook.

I picked out several things that I wanted to complete at the end of January. Ugh, January, can any month be more depressing in Wisconsin, and then the whole post-election thing!!  But onward we go, and things got calmer.

First up, some socks.  I knit top down, four double pointed needles, one at a time.  I had two pairs in process, one regular and one yoga socks (no heels or toes).

The yoga socks were easy, since the heels and toes take the most time.  I think I actually had those done before the end of January.

These are now finished, that loose end and other ends have been woven in, and I love wearing them around the house.

The other pair has slid itself to the end of the line, I have both toes and heels done, but the toes need to be finished off with the Kitchener stitch, and ends woven in.  Make Up March??  LOL!

Next came two cowls.  One was started in like late 2018 or early 2019, the other more recently.  Last to start was first to be finished.  This was knit with a free pattern from two balls of Chroma from Knit Picks.  I love red!

You can get a different look by twisting one color or another around to the front.  I don't remember the pattern name and I can't locate it right now.  It was a Knit-Along on Ravelry I think.

The other cowl is the Toolbox Cowl.  It's a paid for pattern.  It is specifically designed to feature several mini skeins in various colors.  I think you're supposed to do seven or eight, and I might do that for a second one, but I stopped after I had used each color that I had one time.  Two times would have made this too tall for my short neck.

I love this yarn, it's called CoBaSi, for Cotton-Bamboo-Silk.  It's not fuzzy, but it is warm and colorful.  See for yourself:

All the ends are woven in and it's blocked and ready for wearing.

The last thing on my list was a gray UFO that was on the 8 year plan.  I'm not even sure when I started it, but it was a while ago, at least one house before this one!  The yarn is a crinkly 90% acrylic 10% wool that I bought ages before I started the project.  It was probably cheap because I wasn't a yarn snob when I bought it.  But it was a pretty shade of gray, dark and charcoally.  

The pattern is called Allegra from either Lion Brand or another yarn company and it was free for downloading.  It's knit side to side.  The pattern shows it being shorter than it turned out, and I didn't do that purposely.  I think I knit a gauge swatch but maybe not!  Who can remember that long ago?

Anyway, all done but the blocking now.  Although whether blocking makes any difference with that much acrylic content who can tell?  But finished is better than perfect!

Not to worry, I haven't run out of UFOs!  But it's nice to have these done.

On other notes, I got a mammogram this week, and a first dose of the Covid vaccine.  Take care of yourself, because if you don't, who is going to do it for you?  It's important, especially these days.

Knit on...