knit a year

I'm going to try the knit a year project after hearing about it from Michelle from Reef Knot (& recently 107 projects). the aim is to knit a minimum of 2 rows each day, using a different colour to reflect my mood for the day & leaving a thread at the edge of the piece to show the start of each day

http://knitayear.ning.com

knitrageous has written a great post about the project - she travels also so has similar issues to me, ie not having your yarn stash with you all the time.
I think it'll be an exploration in colour and texture - perhaps I'll add some embroidery over the yarn, or try some weaving also.

as I'm traveling at the moment, I don't have my yarn stash available so I brought some multi-coloured sock yarn with me and will use different colours from this whilst away. it means cutting up the yarn and thereby ruining the skein but this should be OK - I can always join threads if needs be.

I cast on 23 stitches, which is different to the instructions, but 23 has a bit of maybe logic flavour to it. I think I'll leave tails on both sides too
traveling yarn stash

day1: I chose the blue for day 1 as I'd woken at 3:15am to catch a 6:30am flight to Auckland, and had napped briefly on the flight but was surprisingly still awake when I began. though due to the hypnotic, relaxing state of knitting the rows, I was nodding off before the end of row 2, so it was a slow start to the project!
day1 - knit a year

day2: I chose a dark, muted green coloured yarn as I was so tired - the whole day was spent in a fog. it felt like the world was muted for me.

day3: I had really good news today - finding out that my friend is pregnant so I chose the brightest, happiest colour I have here - gold. after I'd done a few rows the gold started to become more brown than gold so I stopped early.
days1-3

day4: today was a mixed day, I woke to the news of friend posting on facebook that his mother - who suffered from cancer had passed away. a good day at work. my friend's birthday. another couple of friends' 21st wedding anniversary. so I started with blue, but the yarn changed to a purple/grey colour.
during week2