Stash Dash is a summer finish-along hosted by Laura and Leslie of The Knit Girllls videocast. (If you don't watch them, you're missing out. They're a treat.) Anyway, the idea is to finish as much as you can while Laura is on summer vacation. This year that's May 27 - August 21 (Happy First Day of Stash Dash!). "Winning" means finishing up 3K, 5K, 7K, or if you're really bold, 10K, or 15K meters of yarn during the allotted timeframe.
Long time friends of the show will remember that I competed last year at the 3K level. This year my aspirations are more ambitious, as I'm aiming for the 5K - 7K range.
WIPs totally count, as well as new cast-ons, so those that have game have been stashing (haha) their nearly finished items in a corner to trot out this summer.
Take this beauty for instance:
My Hitchhiker has been all done save a bit of tinking and a bind off for a couple of weeks now. That's 454 meters right there. Boom.
The rest of my strategy relies heavily on my Cosy Stripes and Circles to Squares afghans. They'll come in at over 5K meters between the two of them. The Cosy Stripes afghan is 70% done. I've done the maths, and so long as I do at least three stripes a week I'm in good shape for this one.
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| This thing is gonna be humongous. |
And the Circles to Squares afghan just needs seamed together and a border added.
Finishing these two bad boys (along with Knitting in Red) is one of my goals for 2016, so Stash Dash is the perfect motivation to get them done.
I also have some ankle socks to finish, an Order Mission to cast on (more on that later) and other bits and bobs to work on over the summer.
The Spreadsheet has all my current and planned projects listed. If I finish EVERYTHING I'm looking at nearly 10K. I don't expect to finish everything. At least not by August. But we'll see!
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