Happy Sunday! Happy almost March! Happy spring! Happy happy! Let's get going on today's update!
FOs (Finished Objects)
1. Greenwood Fiberworks Dark BFL (Viktor): started 28 June 2020; finished 17 January 2021
2. Boo-Yah: started 26 January 2021; finished 27 January 2021
Close, but not yet. Maybe I'll have something next week :)
WIPs (Works-in-Progress) *these are carried over year after year, as 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. Vanilla Socks: started 9 August 2020
11. Minecraft Socks: started 12 August 2020
12. Sand Drift Blanket: started 17 January 2021
13. Alpaca (Viktor): started 17 January 2021
This week has been a total shitshow (more on that later) so I didn't get a lot of knitting done. However, I did work on a few things. I pulled out the Minecraft Socks for Little Man. I was at the point where I needed to do the heel turn and I just wasn't in the mood until Friday so, I did that on Friday. I picked up the stitches, and continued working my way through the decreases and down the foot. I actually managed to work the heel turn and down the foot to about the halfway point of the foot (three pattern repeats - I need to do six total before I do the toe decreases). And it's not like I did it all in one sitting. I worked on them during Stormageddon's morning meetings, took some time off to work on schoolwork with him, and do some cleaning around the house, then worked on them again that afternoon and evening.
I also pulled out the Linen Stitch Scarf and worked a few rows on that. It's nothing spectacular, just working back and forth in Linen Stitch. I'm working it the "short" way, like you normally work a scarf, instead of along the longer side. Maybe that's why it doesn't feel so cumbersome? I don't know.
The only other fiber-related thing I worked on was my yarn closet. I have maybe mentioned that in Octoberish, Husband decided we needed to store something and the logical place was the yarn closet, which was fine...but he also had this grand idea to put everything into space saver bags and get rid of virtually all my bins and put up an Ikea shelving unit. Now, my bins were not super organized by weight or fiber type or color or anything like that but I had everything (almost everything) entered into my Ravelry stash page and bins were labeled and I basically knew where everything was located. Then we did that and my closet became....well, it's still not pretty. I don't know where anything is hiding in there. But I spent some time working in there last weekend. I do still have a couple of bins, so I focused on those. One has cone yarns (almost all from Artfibers - cones do not do well in space saver bags) and the other has yarn in space saver bags (specifically most of my handspun and some more recent acquisitions). But I didn't know for sure so I hauled the bins out, made sure everything from those bins was entered into Ravelry with the proper location, and then went in and resorted by location and removed anything that wasn't in those bins. I know it sounds confusing but it's not as bad as it sounds. I didn't get to any of the bags on the shelves but I do intend to do those, too. Ultimately, all the bags are going to get labeled and all the shelves are going to get labeled so my entries will say something like "2B" for 2nd shelf, bag B so I can find things again. I also need to make another map of the closet so I know where things are located. It's going to be a rather large project, unfortunately. I can do it in spurts, though, which is good. I can start with the second shelf and do those bags, then do the next shelf another day, and so on, until it's done. The only thing is that I have to haul out my one tower of bins before I can get to the shelves (those bins are two destash bins of yarn and bags, a bin of accoutrements, and the one with the cone yarns). It's fine. I'll get there. In the meantime, I can just.....meh, it's fine, I'll figure things out.
Anyway, moving along......
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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)
Design Ideas:
1. Christmas Stocking for Husband
2. Christmas Stocking for Little Man
3. Christmas Stocking for Stormageddon
4. Baby Blanket
5. Stomping Grounds Collection
Items for ME (Selfish Knitting FTW!):
1. Rose's Wrist Warmers (DK weight - using Aran instead; hand-dyed Malabrigo Twist?)
2. Perianth (fingering weight - Knitcircus Trampoline in The Whole Enchilada)
3. Stranger Things Hat (worsted - Malabrigo Rios in Archangel)
4. Autopilot (worsted weight - Sincere Sheep Cormo Worsted or htNEVELE Worsted in Reveire)
5. Fine Tune (fingering weight - uses minis so maybe a rainbow type one with the Canon Hand Dyes?)*
6. Flax (worsted weight - Misty Alpaca in the Harry Potter colors)
7. Park Slope (fingering weight - Mountain Fibers Crazyfoot in Shamrock)
8. Undone (bulky - maybe the reclaimed yarn from the Freeport Vest?)
9. Socks (fingering weight - Bob knows I have enough so I should use it - maybe with the CSM)
10. Sockhead (fingering weight - I have tons...pick something!)
11. Age of Brass & Steam (Handspun purple/white barber pole)
12. Radiate Shawl (fingering weight - Artfibers Carezza maybe?)
13. El Panal Cowl (Kit from Greenwood Fiberworks)
Children's Items
1. Flax for Stormageddon (Stunning String Legacy Worsted)
2. Honey Badger: (worsted weight - black & white acrylic I have banging around the stash)*
3. Mittens for Stormageddon (worsted weight probably)
4. Maybe a Flax for Little Man...maybe...
Utilitarian/Household Items
1. Garter Chevron Blanket (KP Mighty Stitch - may need to get some more black or white)
2. Diagonal Knit Dishcloths (cotton of some sort)
3. Reusable Produce Bag (cotton or acrylic of some sort - worsted)
4. Grandma's Favorite Dishcloth (cotton or maybe bamboo, depending on the use)
Spinning:
Dyeing:
2. Skeins of sock yarn
3. Random worsted/sport skeins
Other Fibery Endeavors:
WOW, your stash organization sounds amazing!! Great idea. I'm going to have to use that coding system.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with school. It's been great news that schools really aren't a breeding ground, especially elementary schools. I certainly understand being cautious until proven safe but the fear of spreading by school children clearly has not been an issue. Our private schools in Ohio didn't shutdown and have not been a hot bed of spread.
Our district went to hybrid, with about 25% of families opting to return to the classroom. Our family has no known risk factors, but we still opted to keep them out this quarter. I hope your upcoming weeks are less stressful.
ReplyDeleteNever a dull moment in your household, but my goodness no internet and breaking beds seem to be no fair on top of everything else we are all dealing with. Sending you good vibes for a calmer week all around.
ReplyDeleteWow you are a great wife to not have gone nuts at your husband reorganising your stash into bags with no labels and looking at your Ravelry Stash page that is a lot of yarn to not know which bag it’s been moved to. That’s pretty poor that the IKEA bed isn’t lasting, do you have any chance of getting money back from them or an alternative option from them? I hope this coming week is easier.
ReplyDeleteOh damn, what a week; hugs. Poor Little Man. We only got a survey about how likely would we want to send our kids to school if our city was in so-and-so tier. I pretty responded less likely. I asked my girls how they felt about hybrid learning and they both said they'd rather stay home.
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