Already planning ahead

It's not yet December, and I'm already planning for next year (wait. again. yeah, again). I think 12 sock-yarn projects, started on the beginning of each month, is a pretty good idea.

For December, my main goals are to finish 3-5 pairs of mittens, start mum's cowl, and finish the loop batt that I'm slowly, slowly spinning.

Socks

I have 40 pairs of socks waiting for me to knit them.

I want them all Right This Moment.

Why can't I knit as fast as I can daydream about socks?


edit:
Some people are not sock knitters. While it is true that you can buy a pair of socks for much cheaper and much less effort than you can knit a pair, I find that handknit socks are fun, fairly fast, and a really good price-point: you get one project out of one skein of yarn (sometimes two out of one skein! if you don't mind short cuffs). I also don't mind wearing odd colors of socks whereas I'm much pickier about sweaters and hats and shawls and things.

all this means is a) I like knitting socks, mostly and b) I have a hell of a lot of sock yarn.

edit 2: the small needles+yarn is a little hard on the hands, hence why I can only say "mostly"

Pictures

Cowlness continues. Here's some pics of cowl #1

The blocking did help with the curling, so it only curls gently now.

Note that I won at yarn chicken, hence my ridiculous face in the bottom picture.

Cowl 2 is almost completely done. I am at the stage now where I look at the yarn remaining after every row and think, "how much more can I get out of this?"

I wound the yarn for cowl 4 tonight too, and cast on cowl 3 to test out the needles I've chosen. I might have to go down a size but I need to knit a few inches to see.

cowl 5 I also pulled out to take a look at. It's almost done, I just need to do some fixing to it so it lays how I want.

.... basically, it's very blissfully cowly around here.

I didn't used to like cowls but now I recognize them as scarves-that-don't-fall-off.

cowls

Cowl #1 is finished. It still curls, despite a vicious blocking. That's the nature of the beast I suppose.

Cowl #2 is at least halfway done, though I'm uncertain about how wide I want to make it.

yarn for Cowl #3 is balled up, and I think I know what needles I want to work on it with (the short US 3 circular, to do it in the round). Cowl #4 is secretly Cowl #0, I just have to make a few mods to make it more wearable (I'm folding it where it curls and adding an extra edging so it's thicker and prettier). The yarn for cowl #5 is picked out, I just have to finalize the pattern I want.

pretty much nothing but cowl-o-clock over here.