Year the TENTH: Self-Imposed Year of Projects - Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming (Update #48)

 Woo Sunday! It's been a week around here (when isn't it lately?!). Let's get going!

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
3. Minecraft Socks: started 12 August 2020; finished 6 March 2021
4. Alpaca (Viktor): started 17 January 2021; finished 17 March 2021
5. Dyeing Project: started 9 April, 2021; finished 9 April 2021
6. El Panal Cowl: started 5 April 2021; finished 29 April 2021
7. Rose City Rollers: started 7 March 2021; finished 1 June 2021
8. Unknown Wool (Viktor): started 26 June 2021; finished 27 June 2021
9. Abstract Fibers Merino Tencel (Viktor): started 27 June 2021; finished 29 June 2021
10. Frabjous Fibers Merino Top (Viktor): started 30 June 2021; finished 2 July 2021
11. Allons-y Fiber Arts Merino (Viktor): started 4 July 2021; finished 7 July 2021
12. Rose City Rollers: started 1 June 2021; finished 12 August 2021
13. Flax for Stormageddon: started 29 April 2021; finished 31 August 2021
14. Waiting for Winter Mittens: started 11 September 2021; finished 21 September 2021
15. Waiting for Winter Mittens for Stormageddon: started 25 September 2021; finished 28 September 2021
16. Rose City Zombies: started 13 August 2021; finished 21 October 2021

Hahaha. No. Not yet.

 

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. Sand Drift Blanket: started 17 January 2021
12. Sockhead: started 27 September 2021

I took some time to knit this week. Not a lot but I did knit and that's helpful. 

I worked on the Sockhead while Husband and I watched the first two episodes of Hawkeye that dropped this week. So that was delightful.

And on Thursday, we had our friends over amidst our chaos for Thanksgiving and I brought out the Herbivore shawl and finished up that one row I was in the middle of and did another whole row. Woot woot!

But that was it. ::sigh:: 

 

OMGLSGWTFBBQ

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. Age of Brass & Steam (Handspun purple/white barber pole)
11. Radiate Shawl (fingering weight - Artfibers Carezza maybe?)

Children's Items/Knitting for others
1. Honey Badger: (worsted weight - black & white acrylic I have banging around the stash)*
2. 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:

1. Wonderland Dyeworks BFL

2. Mixed BFL

3. Allons-Y Fiber Arts Merino, Trilobal Nylon, Silk

4. Fiberlady.com 100% Bamboo 

Dyeing:

1. Sock Blanks (I think I have 5 left)

2. Random worsted/sport skeins (I have maybe 2-3 left)

3. Anything else I find along the way (I don't think there's anything else)

Other Fibery Endeavors:

1. Create project bag inventory

2. Update library inventory (on Ravelry) *in progress*

3. Update stash inventory (on Ravelry) *needs to be redone - after we move*

4. Stitch markers: kits and individual

5. Destash as necessary (it's always necessary)

6. Stash Fit

 

 

 

The boys were home from school all week as Thanksgiving was on Thursday. I'm not a huge fan of what I think of as "The Thanksgiving Lie," wherein we're fed a bullshit story from very early on in our lives about how the Native Americans and the Pilgrims got together and shared a meal to celebrate the harvest that they worked on together. I don't like it because.....well, it's absolute bullshit and the further propagation of it continues to harm indigenous people of the Americas. I like the food. I don't necessarily like cooking all the food but that's a separate issue. Regardless, it's still classified as a Federal Holiday so most places are closed and no federal/government business goes on. In theory. And we had our friends over from across the Bay....in the chaos that is our house. And we cooked! It was fine. We made it work. The kids sat at the counter and the stager's table, the adults sat on the couch. We did, however, a turkey mishap. We brine our turkey and I put it in the brine on Monday because it was a frozen turkey. Soooo....brine on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and it was coming out on Thursday except it got that funk smell to it, which meant we had let it sit in the brine too long. So, we had to toss out a full turkey. Thankfully, Husband was able to acquire another one on Thursday morning and we brined it for a few hours and it was fine.

I spent at least some time every single day packing, including Thanksgiving day. The good news is that I'm nearly done. We have the small, everyday stuff, and the last-minute stuff that will get packed the day the moving truck arrives, and I've got some of the kitchen left. But that's seriously about it.

And the stager's stuff is still here. ::eyeroll:: However......our buyers have a buyer for their house so things are moving on that front. They put it on the market last Saturday and had the offer on Thanksgiving. ::sigh:: They didn't have a huge cell tower in their backyard. That means a whole lot of things on our end, including possibly moving up our date to close on this house, which would be wonderful! We'll see how things go. 

I'm a bit lax on photos this week. I've been so busy packing that I've not really taken any. Maybe next week, as things start to calm down on that side of things...

Sorry! 

I'm also looking toward next year's Year of Projects. I even went ahead and counted how many Sundays there are in 2022 and there are, in fact, 52 which means my wrap-up post will likely be wrapped into the first update for next year but maybe not. It's literally as we're moving into the new house in Wisconsin...might be off for a few weeks. Dunno yet. Woo. 

Anyway, I hope you had a lovely week and weekend!