Year SEVEN: Self-Imposed Year of Projects - Update #36

Happy Sunday! Let's get moving....if I can move at all......more on that in a bit.


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

Ends still not woven in. Let's just move on with our lives, okay? I may never get them all woven in...but we know that's a lie because Halloween socks need to be on my feet soon!



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
14. Purl & Loop Weaving Project: started 28 August 2018

I don't know that I got a lot of knitting accomplished this week. What little I did do was on the Abracadabra Socks and the Age of Brass & Steam. I'm tossed for how many rounds to do on the cuffs of the sock. I usually do twenty-five rounds but I'm leaning toward only doing twenty because of the contrast heel/cuff/toes I'm planning to do. I don't know. I'll see how different twenty versus twenty-five rounds looks on actual socks and make a decision then.

But that's it this week for knitting, promise!


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. Sock Blanks (10) from Vice Yarns

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)

In continuing fibery events, I dyed yarn yesterday. My hands are a lovely shade of orangey-yellow as a result. I'm going to have to start selling the things I dye because I need to somehow fund my dyeing habit. I dyed a total of eleven yarny items: two skeins of worsted (560 yds each), six skeins of sock yarn (a BFL/nylon sock yarn, 464 yds each), and three sock blanks. They are currently drying in Little Man's bathroom. 

This is the only photo I took during my yarn dyeing adventures yesterday.....and it's just the table with my dye all mixed and ready to go. 

Also, this arrived: my information for Vogue Knitting Live in San Francisco in a couple weeks. I'm only taking one class, a Fair Isle class, in which I hope to address my University of Wisconsin Ski Hat and the ridiculously long floats (18-20 sts in spots). I hope to visit the marketplace also (duh). That's a couple weeks away, though.

The week started out with Stormageddon's birthday. We didn't do anything special. He opened presents, played, and around 7pm, we went out for ice cream. Obviously he chose chocolate (as he's wearing it all over his face). I still can't believe that boy is four years old! 

On Monday, being a holiday, we went across the bay to visit our friends. We cooked out, went swimming, and that was about it. 

Tuesday, we were back to the grind......which for Little Man meant finding snails at school.

We had a pretty benign week. Stormageddon had swimming lessons, Little Man had swimming lessons, I worked on stuff for the school auction, and that was about it. Nothing terribly exciting. I hope this week is more exciting but we'll see how things go.

I did dye yarn yesterday but we also started work on leveling out a spot for our new hot tub. With the pool coming down last week, we decided the time to get a hot tub was now.....and we have the perfect spot. So yesterday, we got some boards and rocks and started leveling out a 96"^2 area.....and I did a lot of the work because Husband's back doesn't agree with things that require hunching (like shoveling gravel around)....so I'm a bit sore. I expect this to last a couple days, at minimum. As long as it doesn't adversely affect my knitting, we're good. 

Anyway, I hope you've had a lovely week and weekend :)