Happy Monday! I'm a day late because *reasons* so let's just get going and we'll discuss later :)
FOs (Finished Objects):
1. Ewetopia Stripey Socks: started 15 November 2018; finished 29 January 2020
2. Tiny Turtle: started 7 November 2019; finished 30 January 2020
3. Mirkwood: started 9 February 2020; finished 17 February 2020
4. Campfire Socks: started 17 October 2018; frogged 9 April 2020
5. Sockhead: started 8 January 2020; finished 25 May 2020
6. Baby Yoda: started 14 March 2020; finished 13 June 2020
7. Abracadabra Socks: started 7 August 2018; finished 18 June 2020
8. Multi-Colored Merino Top (Viktor): started 16 January 2019; finished 30 June 2020
9. Oread Hat (test knit): started 2 July 2020; finished 11 July 2020
10. Prototype Something Something Raindrops: started 11 April 2019; finished 18 July 2020
11. Rose City Rollers: started 18 June 2020; finished 4 August 2020
12. Prototype Something Something (worsted): started 5 September 2020; finished 6 September 2020
Yes, It's true. I finished a cowl in less than a day. I'm not even joking a little bit. It's even been washed. Now, to be fair, I still need to weave in my ends but it's been washed and blocked. I also need to weigh it and photograph it and write the pattern but the cowl itself is done, not that it's cold enough to even consider wearing it right now. Soon, my precious, soon.
WIPs (Works-in-Progress) (These are carried over year to year if needed):
1. Wink: started 5 January 2015
2. Shetland Neck Wool (support spindle): started 8 September 2017
3. Returning: started 14 January 2018
4. Faerie Mountain Fibers Crazy Batt (EEW Mini): started 13 April 2018
5. Granny Square Blanket: started 28 April 2018
6. UW Ski Hat: started 11 July 2018
7. Purl & Loop Weaving Project: started 28 August 2018
8. Herbivore: started 15 November 2018
9. Linen Stitch Scarf: started 2 June 2020
10. Greenwood Fiberworks Dark BFL (Viktor): started 28 June 2020
11. Vanilla Socks: started 9 August 2020
12. Minecraft Socks: started 12 August 2020
13. Basic Fingerless Mitts: started 6 September 2020
14. Prototype Something Something cowl: started 11 September 2020
I have no self-control. After finishing one project this past week, I started two more. I'm about halfway finished in the first of the fingerless mitts. I bought the yarn as a kit with the pattern, in a handled mason jar, and a few other items, from Diane Ivey of Lady Dye Yarns. I think I picked it up at Vogue Knitting Live in San Francisco and if it wasn't there, it was at Stitches West. Regardless, I've had it for a little bit and it was time. I'm not 100% sure these are going to be for me. They fit me but I think I'm going to wind up putting them in the "gifting" box for someone else.
The yarn is a single-ply fingering weight that has oranges, yellows, greens, reds, and browns - very autumnal. I'm using US #3 needles (my Signature DPNs) and so far, they've been a fairly easy knit. I do know of a few changes I would make if I were to knit them again, none of which take away from the design itself; they're just personal choices about increases. Otherwise, all is well with those.
The other project I started was another iteration of the cowl...the one I just finished in the smaller version in worsted weight, and the same one I also have recentlyish finished the smaller version in sock yarn....yeah, that one. This one is the longer sock yarn version, which is the one I gave to Stormageddon's former speech therapist a year and a half ago. Also, because that yarn company is no more, I thought I had better knit it out of something that is still available. I know how grumpy some yarny people get when the exact yarn isn't available.
The yarn for this one I picked up at Stitches West, I believe this past February (so February 2020), right before the proverbial shit hit the fan. I think if I could have bought a sweater's quantity of it at the time, I might have. Alas, it wasn't to be. So one lonely skein came home with me, to become this cowl. I think.
I've not been working on much else this past week, mostly due to lack of time and other things going on. But I think two new projects is enough, right?
Design WIPs:
1. Messed Up Moss: started March 2009 - write pattern as PDF (iterations: first, second)
2. Susan's Hat: started 31 August 2010 - need new prototypes & write the pattern (iterations: first, second, third, mini, fifth, sixth)
3. Little Man's Baby Blanket: started July 2010 - need new prototype & write pattern (iteration: here)
4. Chunky Scarf: started 6 October 2012 - need new prototype & write pattern (iteration: here)
5. Pacific Waves Hat: started 9 March 2016 - need new prototype & write the pattern (iterations: first, second, third)
6. Fall in San Francisco: started 18 September 2016 - need new prototype & write pattern (iterations: first, second)
7. Stomping Grounds Collection: started 26 February 2017 - need prototypes & write patterns
8. Unnamed Hat Design: started 14 August 2017 - need various weight yarn prototypes & write pattern (iterations: first, second)
9. Paradiddle Socks: started 19 October 2017 - write pattern (iteration: here)
Children's Items:
1. Oliver for Stormageddon (worsted weight - Stunning String Studio from Stitches West 2018) - I may change this to a different sweater using the same yarn
2. Honey Badger: (worsted weight - black & white acrylic I have banging around the stash)*
3. Mittens for Stormageddon (worsted weight probably)
4. I Love Stockinette Baby Bibs (worsted - cotton, acrylic, something)
Designs:
Spinning:
Dyeing:
2. Skeins of sock yarn
Other Fibery Endeavors:
The air quality was definitely crap that day but it was actually better on Wednesday than it has been any day since. It looked like a combination of Bladerunner and Beetlejuice outside. No one wanted to do anything and we wound up spending the afternoon watching movies.
Good job on finishing the cowl in one day. Of course when one project is finished, 2 must be cast on. That is the rule, right? We have had a couple of 'yellow' days here in Arizona because of the fires in Cali. I can only imagine how much worse it is for you living between them. UGH, the air quality must be horrible. It was bad enough here and we are hundreds of miles away from it. Hopefully, the weather will cool off and you will get some rain to help stop those fires.
ReplyDeleteWow. I'm so impressed. I couldn't finish anything in one day and I don't have 2 kids to take care of. I hope you are able to stay safe with the fires and bad air. So weird that we are getting some effect even here in Ohio!! Here it's like inverse fog. The ground is fine but the sky is white instead of blue.
ReplyDeleteGreat job with the cowl! I can't think of the last time I finished a project in a day. I can't imagine the air quality there in Ca. Friends have been posting pictures of the sky in NY that has been affected by the wildfire smoke. I'm hoping the fires end soon for you all.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, halfway down your back? I love it. This whole self-distancing has made me grown out my hair too. I love it. Good job on the boys' hair. The smoke is back; smelled the Glass Fire in the air this morning.
ReplyDeleteWow that photo is so eerie (of course the skeletons are perfectly at home I imagine. We are getting a little of your fire smoke all the way up here on the west coast of Canada. What a year, eh? My hair is now pony tail ready! First time in probably fifteen years that it isn't short short.
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