Year SEVEN: Self-Imposed Year of Projects - Update #34

Happy Sunday!


FOs (Finished Objects)
1. Adare: started 30 December 2017; finished 5 January 2018
2. Luck o' the Irish Cowl: started 31 December 2017; finished 14 January 2018
3. Rasta Scarf: started 19 January 2018; finished 10 February 2018
4. Rastarmulke (v2): started 10 February 2018; finished 10 February 2018
5. Gamer Bag: started 28 September 2017; frogged 16 February 2018
6. Oh, She Is a Bad Nut: started 11 August 2016; frogged 16 February 2018
7. Garter Stitch Baby Blanket: started 6 July 2017; finished 3 April 2018
8. Pattern submission: started 19 March 2018; finished 3 April 2018
9. Tiny Narwhal: started 5 April 2018; finished 6 April 2018
10. Tiny Narwhal: started 5 April 2018; finished 6 April 2018
11. Hat for Little Man: started 19 April 2018; finished 27 May 2018
12. River's Edge Fiber Arts Falkland Merino (wheel): started 19 May 2018; finished 2 June 2018
13. Smooth Operator Socks: started 13 October 2016; finished 12 June 2018
14. MaryAnn Wool (wheel): started 9 July 2018; finished 12 July 2018
15. Malabrigo Nube (wheel): started 12 July 2018; finished 20 July 2018
16. Paradiddle Prototype: started 19 October 2017; finished 31 July 2018
17. Frankensocks: started 1 March 2018; finished 2 August 2018

Nooooooooope. Nothing new to see here. Not even ends woven in.



WIPs (Works-in-Progress) These are carried over from the last Year of Projects....or longer.
1. Wink: started 5 January 2015
2. Stomping Grounds Collection: started 26 February 2017
3. Hat Design: started 20 March 2017
4. Unnamed Hat Design: started 14 August 2017
5. Shetland Neck Wool (support spindle): started 8 September 2017
6. Returning: started 14 January 2018
7. Faerie Mountain Fibers Crazy Batt (EEW Mini Spinner): started 13 April 2018
8. Granny Square Blanket (1): started 28 April 2018
9. Clapotis: started 29 June 2018
10. Safari Duo - Ella the Elephant: started 11 July 2018
11. University of Wisconsin Ski Hat: started 11 July 2018
12. Abracadabra Socks: started 7 August 2018
13. Age of Brass & Steam Shawl: started 10 August 2018

I'm not going to lie.......the only project I worked on this past week was the Age of Brass & Steam. It's going really well, which is probably why I've spent all my knitting time on it this week.

And that's it, I swear!



OMGLSGWTFBBQ Lists:

Children's Items
1. Undetermined hat for Stormageddon
2. Mittens for Stormageddon
3. Oliver for Stormageddon (worsted weight - Stunning String Studio from Stitches West 2018)
4. Lancelot for Little Man (worsted weight - green Plymouth Encore)
5. Dandy Sir Cephalopod (worsted weight - Red Creek blue, maybe)

Items for ME (selfish knitting FTW!)
1. Brickless (worsted - Miss Babs Yowza in "Celebration") *
2. Honey Badger (fingering - BMFA STR L - one of the ones from Carrie)
3. Park Slope (fingering - Mountain Fibers Crazyfoot)
4. Maya's Shawl (bulky - Plucky Silk Merino Aran)
5. Companion Mitts (fingering - BMFA STR orange from Carrie) *
6. Forest Cardi (worsted - Baah Shasta in "London Blue" and....something....)
7. Flax (worsted - Cascade 220 in "Royal Blue" or Misti Alpaca Harry Potter color)
8. Jag in Garter Stitch (fingering - KP Palette grey and Artfibers Carezza)
9. Reichenbach (fingering - AVFKW Slick or BMFA STR-M in "Vintage")
10. Sockhead (fingering - Madelinetosh Merino Light)
11. Moab (fingering - Wollmeise in "Lavender")
12. Pumpkin Pie (DK - Kangaroo Dyer orange)
13. Anne's Sweater (sport - Artfibers something)
14. Moyen Age (fingering - Vice special order either grey or green)

Random Things
1. Pop Blanket (worsted - may need to order some yarn for this)
2. University of Wisconsin Christmas Stocking kit
3. University of Wisconsin Button Beanie kit
4. Xandu Snowflake Cowl (fingering - two contrasting colors)

Designs
1. Susan's Hat *started* - need new prototype & write pattern
2. Little Man's Baby Blanket *started* - write pattern
3. Paradiddle Socks  *started* - need prototype & write pattern
4. Pacific Waves Hat *started* - need another prototype & write pattern
5. Fall in San Francisco *started* - need another prototype & write pattern
6. Stormageddon's Baby Blanket - need prototype & write pattern
7. Cabled pullover (grey look-alike sweater - Old Navy hooded sweater with cable) - need sketch,
grading, swatch, prototype, & write pattern
8. Christmas stocking for Little Man - need charts, prototype, & write pattern (maybe)
9. Christmas stocking for Stormageddon - need charts, prototype, & write pattern (maybe)
10. Christmas stocking for Husband - need charts, prototype, & write pattern (maybe)
11. Stomping Grounds collection *started* - need everything: charts, prototypes, swatches, etc.

Spinning
1. AVFKW Merino Silk
2.  Abstract Fiber Merino Tencel
3. Allons-Y Fiber Arts 18.5 Micron Merino
4. Allons-Y Fiber Arts Merino, Trilobal Nylon, Silk
5. Alpaca (from Lambtown 2014)
6. Ambrosia & Bliss Rambouillet Top
7. Anne's Fiber Expressions
8. Ashland Bay Fiber Merino Top
9. BMFA Handpainted Roving
10. Bramble Wool Farm Shetland Wool

Dyeing
1. Gaia (worsted)
2. Euro Sock 6-ply or BFL Sock (I can't remember which one I have)
3. Whatever else I find in the bag...I have a bag...or maybe a couple of bags....sock blanks, some more BFL sock....

Other Fibery Endeavors
1. Stitch markers
2. Vintage patterns into Rav database
3. Inventory of books & loose patterns (update)
4. Inventory of PDF patterns (update)
5. Update yarn inventory (make sure it's up-to-date)/destash
6. Inventory project bags (Erin Lane, I'm looking at you)




We had a few things happen this week.

Stormageddon has been insisting on being helpful here and there. In this case, he wanted to carry the diaper bag back pack into the gym. It's a little too heavy for him and even if I tighten the straps, it's still big on him. But he insisted and I'm not about to fight him.

In addition to that, he also started swimming lessons this week.

I'm going to need to get him some ear plugs and a swimming cap. He wasn't a fan of going underwater (which isn't normally an issue) and I think it was partly because of his ears bothering him. We'll see how this week goes.

He started his speech therapy class again this week, because we just don't have enough going on in our lives. He was so excited to see his teacher again. He was also excited because it meant he could wear his new backpack like a big boy.

Road construction has finally begun on the street next to us. It's been an awful road for years but instead of actually fixing it, the city just kept patching holes and putting gravel down. The work trucks from PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric)  go riproaring down the road like crazy, making all the houses on the one side shake like we're having earthquakes. Everyone that knows the street drives pretty slowly on it, ostensibly because we value our cars' shocks. But, after years of complaints, the road is finally getting completely redone. They're putting in proper curbs and drainage, ripping it up, regrading it, and completely redoing everything. Buuuuuuuut.......

......it means that this is happening next to my bedroom window. Every weekday. 9am-3pm. From now through the end of October. Digging. Drilling. Jackhammers. Construction equipment. Men trying to yell at each other over the noise.

::sigh:: At least the road is getting fixed. Finally.

Stormageddon and I have had to make funny faces about it, if only for our sanity.

Earlier in the week, Little Man asked Stormageddon to come cuddle with him. So, this is the pair in the chair, with their blankets, cuddling while watching Yo-Kai Watch in Netflix. That was on Wednesday. I was glad they still loved each other.......

......and then on Friday afternoon, Little Man pushed his little brother hard and Stormageddon smacked his face on the floor. It resulted in the bruise across his nose in the above photo and a bloody nose but because he's had snot and a cough all week, the blood didn't actually come out his nose until later. It kind of sat up there, congealed somewhat, and then he picked at it and all of a sudden it was like the a flood of blood out his nose, followed with a mass of slightly congealed ick. It was rather unpleasant. But he's not had any issues since then so we're not all that worried about it.

Also, Little Man and Puppy are goofy. This was last night. Puppy was making this....I don't even know what to call this face and I tried to take a photo but he was more interested in Little Man so I got both of them.



So, that's life in a nutshell or something akin to that.

I hope you've had a lovely week and weekend :) I'm toying with dyeing yarn today but we'll see what the day brings. Maybe I should take care of the yarn I already dyed.....or something. We'll see.