My Fair Isle

Fair Isle knitting (aka stranded knitting) is the practice of using two or more colors in a single row and carrying the unused color behind your work.  I did this for the coffee sleeve I made, and it seemed easy enough -- so I could make an entire plushie made using the fair isle technique, right? 

Nope.

I tried, and tried... and got frustrated.  I bought a skein of blue yarn JUST so I could make a stuffed Tardis, but I kept knitting too tight and had the colors bunch up in between.  I gave up, frogged it, and created a simpler dish cloth instead. 

I don't think the yarn that I used would make for a very good dish cloth (100% nasty acrylic), so I might just use other stash yarn and other "dish cloth" patterns to create a patch work afghan.  And who knows, maybe one day I'll try to make the stuffed Tardis again.

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I have SOO many projects on my plate right now, and not NEARLY enough time to do them all.  I have about three totes FULL of yarn waiting to be used.  If you look at my ravelry queue, I have over 50 projects not started.  That doesn't include what I have started and needed to stop for whatever reason.  Here's a sneak peak at some stuff that is coming up....

Any guesses?  No cheating by looking on ravelry, either!!