Let's see what's been happening...
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
18: Cup Cozy: started 22 September 2018; finished 22 September 2018
19. Sockhead: started 11 September 2018; finished 2 November 2018
20. Violet Waffles: started 15 November 2018; finished 16 November 2018
Yes, I started and finished a project this past week. I did some travel knitting on the plane and on the bus. I wound up doing almost the entire hat and just needed to do the crown decreases. So....I finished a project.
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
15. Campfire Socks: started 17 October 2018
16. Herbivore: started 15 November 2018
17. Ewetopia Stripey Socks: started 15 November 2018
18. Violet Waffles: started 16 November 2018
Because I've been traveling the last few days, I wound up starting some new projects. The only one I've made any real progress on is the second Violet Waffles hat. I started the socks to try out my new Addi FlexiFlips. I'm still undecided about them. I also started another shawl...because I don't have enough going on, I guess.
Aside from the finished hat and the three new projects, I've not done much knitting this past week and I'm okay with that.
Mooooving along...
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 the Neighborhood Fiber Co. in "Charles Centre")
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. Moab (fingering - Wollmeise in "Lavender")
11. Pumpkin Pie (DK - Kangaroo Dyer orange)
12. Anne's Sweater (sport - Artfibers something)
13. 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)
This has been a rough week.
I mentioned last week that I needed to take an emergency trip home...and I'm writing this from my best friend's house in Wisconsin. I head back to San Francisco tomorrow morning at the buttcrack of dawn.
Last week on Friday, I talked to my bestie back home. Her dad was diagnosed with ALS in June, if I remember correctly. While ALS is a progressive disease, it was progressing faster than expected. He had fallen the week prior to that (a second fall) and he just deteriorated quickly. I got a text from her on Saturday night telling me that her dad had passed away earlier that day. So, plans were made, tickets acquired, a standby flight to Chicago on Thursday (and another one tomorrow morning), and a bus trip back home.
The week also started out with wildfire smoke. We're about 200 miles away from the Camp Fire up by Chico and Paradise but the way the wind has been blowing.....we're getting all the smoke in San Francisco. The air quality was the worst in the entire world on Friday. The masks and air filters were all sold out, Amazon was on backorder for the area....it was a mess. I was kind of glad to be leaving, to be honest.
Little Man had half-days all week because of parent-teacher conferences. Husband had to go on Thursday because I was on a plane. Luckily, one of my besties from college had come out to visit when all this crap happened and she is helping out Husband with the kids while I've been gone. But with the air quality, school was cancelled on Friday. They're going back tomorrow, thankfully, but it will still be a half-day tomorrow and Tuesday (they're off the rest of the week for Thanksgiving). It'll be fine.
So, my trip home.....Thursday was the travel day. Friday, we spent most of the afternoon in the kitchen. I made a few rounds on Friday morning (I went to the yarn shop and the grocery store before visiting my mother's and grandparents' graves), and then we cooked a ton of food. I made three pans of lasagna (one for dinner that night, and two to put in her mom's freezer), she made a spaghetti casserole for the post-funeral luncheon, we made about 125 jello shots for the 90s party we went to on Saturday night, and we just tried to keep it all together. Saturday was the funeral. It was, of course, a typical military funeral including the 21-gun salute, followed by the luncheon. By the time we got back to my friend's house, it was like 5pm and we were exhausted....but we had to go to the 90s party that night (she set it up before her dad passed and she wasn't going to back out of it, even though everyone would have understood if she had). To be fair, I think we all needed that last night. Of course, we may have imbibed too much alcohol and I may or may not have been dealing with a nasty hangover this morning that involved puking, among other things. It was kind of like a mini-class reunion because it was mostly people we went to school with, which was fine by me.
Which just brings it all back around to tonight, where I'm getting ready to go home tomorrow. My boys have missed me. I've missed my boys.
No real photos this week. I have a suitcase half filled with various cheeses (it's my carry-on). I have two suitcases filled with beer. Yeah. It's been a long week.
I hope you've all had a better week than I have had.
Hope you have a quieter week and get some rest.
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