Alone Time Project: This is a project that requires your full attention. Typically knit alone in your hotel room. Maybe the tv on for some background noise but no one in the room to distract you with conversation. These would be your Fair-Isles, Laces, or any knit project that requires counting, measuring and full attention. Rule of thumb. If you have a life line* in it, knit alone.
Chit Chat Project: Something possibly with some interesting details but easy enough that you can knit with your friends and carry on a conversation with little or no risk of making a mistake.
Happy Hour Project: This could also be your Chit Chat project if you are planning on just a glass of the happy hour wine. If you are like our group, not only do we enjoy the wine provided, we all bring out our own. At this point you need to set down your Chit Chat project and move on to a simpler project.
The Fill my Glass again project: This is when you decide that one glass of social chardonnay is not on the plan for the night. Set down what you've been working on all day. Pick up a project that you can knit without thinking about. A cowl in stockinette. A garter baby blanket. A plain vanilla sock. A basic beanie. The goal is to have a project that is so mindless that if you wake up in the morning and made a mistake it's not going to crush your soul to rip it back.
These are not hard and fast rules. Just a general guide to keep you sane.
However. I tend to throw caution to the wind.
I knit Fair-Isle while drinking wine.
Like I did last night.
At the Scotsmen.
I have a theory though.
I think by knitting Fair-isle and drinking in a Scottish Bar the colorwork Gods smile upon me.
Pattern: Dollheid by Kate Davies
You can buy the pattern on Ravelry as a bundle. You'll get her Paper Dolls pullover and the Dollheid Tam
Check them out on Ravelry here
*life lines are typically used in lace knitting to save yourself from ripping all the way back. You can read more about them here
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