FO's (Finished Objects):
1. Age of Brass & Steam: started 10 August 2018; finished 7 January 2019
2. Sockhead for Little Man: started 29 November 2018; finished 25 January 2019
3. Cowl for Miss Sylvie: started 18 January 2019; finished 9 April 2019
4. Vanilla Fingerless Mitts: started 16 May 2019; finished 24 June 2019
5. Dishcloth: started 9 July 2019; finished 16 July 2019
6. Clapotis: started 29 June 2018; frogged 16 July 2019
7. Dishcloth: started 16 July 2019; finished 26 August 2019
8. Large Sacrificial Goat: started 20 September 2019; finished 1 October 2019
9. Hufflepuff Hat: started 31 July 2019; finished 7 October 2019
10. Lederhosen Socken Hat: started 11 September 2019; finished 16 November 2019
I've not finished anything new, which is unsurprising.
14. Tiny Turtle: started 7 November 2019
With my college friend visiting and coming down with a nasty cold, I didn't get a lot accomplished this past week. But, I did try!
I finally got around to finishing the cast-on and joining of the Prototype Something Something Raindrops. I had frogged it because it became apparent that I don't know how to read my own pattern or my knitting. But now I'm back on track. Sort of. It's restated again, at any rate.
I also spent some time on the Herbivore shawl. I had started it last year, got through the set-up rows, put it down.......and that was it. And I had one too many stitches, which may be why it wound up being put down for so long in the first place. So, I frogged it and restarted it and it's moving along quite well. I really should take a photo. There are two sections to the shawl. I'm in the first section and I'm supposed to work until it's about 5" from the cast-on. It's currently at 3", which isn't very big actually. The second section goes until it's about 12" from the cast-on so, I suppose it will work out in the end. Plus, it's getting wider as well as longer.
But that's about it, for the most part. Except that day I also picked up two skeins of yarn but we're not going to talk about that.
Design WIPs (New section, specifically for 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. Rastarmulke: started 20 November 2017 - write pattern (iterations: first, second)
10. Paradiddle Socks: started 19 October 2017 - write pattern (iteration: here)
Keep moving along now, Sir. Let's just not talk about this right now. Sir, I said MOVE ALONG.
Designs
One of my besties from college was here this past week. Last year when she came, I wound up having to take that emergency flight home for my bestie from home's dad's funeral. So, we should have been good to go this year, right?
Hahahahaha.
No.
The whole house got sick this week. Little Man got it first and shared with me. Of course, I got it way worse than he did as far as the cold goes. Wednesday I was in bed most of the day. I tried to work and I just couldn't. Little Man went to school all week (no fever, no vomiting, and aside from a cough and his ear hurting, there wasn't anything else happening). Stormageddon didn't start getting the cough until Thursday or Friday. And now it's Monday and he missed school today and probably will miss school tomorrow. I had both boys to the doctor today. Little Man has an ear infection. Stormageddon's lungs sound clear, he's not wheezing, but he's got a nasty cough and snot and has been running a fever on and off. He was swabbed for the flu and pertussis (whooping cough). The doctor doesn't think he has either one but she'd rather test him and have things be negative than to have him wind up really sick. I also went to the doctor this week but it was unrelated to being sick. I had actually made the appointment before I got sick. Oh well.
So, that's where we stand with that.
In addition to that, the entire week has been half-days for school. I mean, Stormageddon is on half-days anyway but Little Man is not. Also, conferences were this week. I had both boys' conferences on the same day, an hour apart. Both went as expected. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, just like any other kid. Little Man's strengths include art and culture (history, social studies, etc.) but he also likes math and science, which helps. He's still struggling with writing. He has great ideas but can't always get them down on paper very well. Stormageddon's strengths include math, particularly spatial reasoning, and science. He struggles with his writing as well but his is absolutely the physical act of writing (which is part of why he's going to occupational therapy). Thankfully, they're both right on target for reading (or, in Stormageddon's case, pre-reading).
This photo is interesting. It's outside Stormageddon's class and you can see that he's tried to write his name (I see three G's). He can fully write his name now, where he couldn't when he made this. All the other kids in his class had no trouble writing their names but he could barely hold a pencil the right way around. You can see the big changes he's made over the past three months just from this image and the backside of another one where he wrote his name fully.
With the half-days happening, another parent and I have been tag-teaming our kids. Her younger twins and Stormageddon are in TK at the one school and the twins' older sister and Little Man are in the same grade at the other school....and they get out at the same time on half-days (and every Wednesday). So, this past week, I've been picking up the older kids because we live closer to their school and the other mom is picking up the younger kids because they live closer to that school. One of the twins (the girl, as they are a brother/sister set of twins) is a little sweet on Stormageddon.
They're so cute it hurts. And she will help him (and her twin) get buckled in their carseats and they're just so sweet.
Doesn't look sick, does he? ::sigh:: He was practicing his selfie game the other day. I have a few others where he's doing puffy cheeks or sticking his tongue out. He's kind of silly.
And speaking of the twins....their birthday party was over the weekend at the local trampoline place. They have a climbing wall and this is how far Stormageddon got, which is about halfway up.
Other than that, it was just kind of one of those "keep your head down and breathe until it's all gone" kind of weeks. My college friend went home this morning (back to Minnesota) so now we're sort of back to our normal life...except Stormageddon isn't going to school tomorrow I don't think (we'll see in the morning) and it's a short week because of Thanksgiving and.....who am I kidding? Between now and Christmas, it's going to be crazytown around here!
Anyway, I hope you had a lovely week and weekend!
1. Age of Brass & Steam: started 10 August 2018; finished 7 January 2019
2. Sockhead for Little Man: started 29 November 2018; finished 25 January 2019
3. Cowl for Miss Sylvie: started 18 January 2019; finished 9 April 2019
4. Vanilla Fingerless Mitts: started 16 May 2019; finished 24 June 2019
5. Dishcloth: started 9 July 2019; finished 16 July 2019
6. Clapotis: started 29 June 2018; frogged 16 July 2019
7. Dishcloth: started 16 July 2019; finished 26 August 2019
8. Large Sacrificial Goat: started 20 September 2019; finished 1 October 2019
9. Hufflepuff Hat: started 31 July 2019; finished 7 October 2019
10. Lederhosen Socken Hat: started 11 September 2019; finished 16 November 2019
I've not finished anything new, which is unsurprising.
WIPs (Works-in-Progress) (These are carried over year to year)
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 Spinner): started 13 April 2018
5. Granny Square Blanket: started 28 April 201
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 Spinner): started 13 April 2018
5. Granny Square Blanket: started 28 April 201
8. Purl & Loop Weaving Project: started 28 August 2018
10. Herbivore: started 15 November 2018
11. Ewetopia Stripey Socks: started 15 November 2018
12. Multi-Colored Merino Top (Viktor): stared 16 January 2019
13. Prototype Something Something Raindrops: started 11 April 201911. Ewetopia Stripey Socks: started 15 November 2018
12. Multi-Colored Merino Top (Viktor): stared 16 January 2019
14. Tiny Turtle: started 7 November 2019
With my college friend visiting and coming down with a nasty cold, I didn't get a lot accomplished this past week. But, I did try!
I finally got around to finishing the cast-on and joining of the Prototype Something Something Raindrops. I had frogged it because it became apparent that I don't know how to read my own pattern or my knitting. But now I'm back on track. Sort of. It's restated again, at any rate.
I also spent some time on the Herbivore shawl. I had started it last year, got through the set-up rows, put it down.......and that was it. And I had one too many stitches, which may be why it wound up being put down for so long in the first place. So, I frogged it and restarted it and it's moving along quite well. I really should take a photo. There are two sections to the shawl. I'm in the first section and I'm supposed to work until it's about 5" from the cast-on. It's currently at 3", which isn't very big actually. The second section goes until it's about 12" from the cast-on so, I suppose it will work out in the end. Plus, it's getting wider as well as longer.
But that's about it, for the most part. Except that day I also picked up two skeins of yarn but we're not going to talk about that.
Design WIPs (New section, specifically for 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. Rastarmulke: started 20 November 2017 - write pattern (iterations: first, second)
10. Paradiddle Socks: started 19 October 2017 - write pattern (iteration: here)
Keep moving along now, Sir. Let's just not talk about this right now. Sir, I said MOVE ALONG.
OMGLSGWTFBBQ Lists
Challenges (this is new for 2019)
1. Knit 1 granny square a month (average) until I'm out of yarn (for the Granny Square Blanket in my WIP list above): I'm definitely behind. I'm okay with it. As long as I work on them, it's all good.
2. Submit and/or publish 2 designs this year. Given that it's November and I've not given one ounce of thought to this....I'm just going to say that it's probably not going to happen. I can dream, right? No thought means no progress. Oh well.
2. Submit and/or publish 2 designs this year. Given that it's November and I've not given one ounce of thought to this....I'm just going to say that it's probably not going to happen. I can dream, right? No thought means no progress. Oh well.
Children's Items
1. Oliver for Stormageddon (worsted weight - Stunning String Studio from Stitches West 2018)
2. Minecraft Socks for Little Man (fingering weight - Tosh Sock in Plaid Blanket?)
3. Mittens for Stormageddon (probably worsted weight of some sort)
4. Tardis Beanie (worsted weight - Cascade Yarns Venezia in Blue Velvet & Grey)
4. Tardis Beanie (worsted weight - Cascade Yarns Venezia in Blue Velvet & Grey)
Items for Me (Selfish Knitting FTW!)
1. Fornicating Deer Hat / Basic Lined Hat (worsted weight - Barrett Wool Co. Worsted Weight in Huron & Stationery from Stitches West 2018)
2. Brickless (worsted weight - Miss Babs Yowza in Celebration)
3. Nightlock (fingering weight - Sun Valley Fibers Merino/Nylon Fingering in Onyx & Sunshine Yarns Classic Sock in May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor)
4. Honey Badger (fingering weight - one of the BMFA STR that I got from Carrie)
5. Park Slope (fingering weight - Mountain Fibers Crazyfoot in Shamrock)
6. Flax (worsted weight - Misty Alpaca in the Harry Potter colors)
7. Xandu Snowflake Cowl (as a hat; fingering weight - G. Sheller Merino/Silk Fingering in Natural & YOTH Little Brother in Caviar)
8. Pop Blanket (worsted weight - box of Knit Picks...may need to order more)
9. Tombreck (Aran weight - hand-dyed Malabrigo Twist or handspun Purple BFL)
10. Stormont (worsted weight - MadTosh 80/10/10 in Molly Ringwald)
11. Rose's Wrist Warmers (DK weight - using Aran instead; hand-dyed Malabrigo Twist?)
12. Northeasterly (Sock or DK weight - but really, I can use whatever as long as I have enough)*
12. Northeasterly (Sock or DK weight - but really, I can use whatever as long as I have enough)*
Designs
1. Stormageddon's Baby Blanket - need prototype & write pattern
2. Cabled pullover (grey look-alike sweater - Old Navy hooded sweater with cable) - need sketch, grading, swatch, prototype, & write pattern
3. Christmas stocking for Little Man - need charts, prototype, & write pattern (maybe)
4. Christmas stocking for Stormageddon - need charts, prototype, & write pattern (maybe)
5. Christmas stocking for Husband - need charts, prototype, & write pattern (maybe)
5. Christmas stocking for Husband - need charts, prototype, & write pattern (maybe)
Spinning
5. Alpaca (from Lambtown 2014)
Dyeing
1. Sock Blanks (9) from Vice Yarns
2. Anything else I find in the stash...or pick up along the way....
Other Fibery Endeavors
1. Stitch markers and/or stitch marker kits
2. Vintage patterns into Rav database & my Rav Library
1. Stitch markers and/or stitch marker kits
2. Vintage patterns into Rav database & my Rav Library
3. Update inventory of loose patterns & books (spreadsheet & Rav Library)
4. Update inventory of PDF patterns (Rav Library)
5. Update yarn inventory (make sure it's up-to-date)/destash
6. Inventory project bags (Erin Lane, I'm looking at you)
6. Inventory project bags (Erin Lane, I'm looking at you)
One of my besties from college was here this past week. Last year when she came, I wound up having to take that emergency flight home for my bestie from home's dad's funeral. So, we should have been good to go this year, right?
Hahahahaha.
No.
The whole house got sick this week. Little Man got it first and shared with me. Of course, I got it way worse than he did as far as the cold goes. Wednesday I was in bed most of the day. I tried to work and I just couldn't. Little Man went to school all week (no fever, no vomiting, and aside from a cough and his ear hurting, there wasn't anything else happening). Stormageddon didn't start getting the cough until Thursday or Friday. And now it's Monday and he missed school today and probably will miss school tomorrow. I had both boys to the doctor today. Little Man has an ear infection. Stormageddon's lungs sound clear, he's not wheezing, but he's got a nasty cough and snot and has been running a fever on and off. He was swabbed for the flu and pertussis (whooping cough). The doctor doesn't think he has either one but she'd rather test him and have things be negative than to have him wind up really sick. I also went to the doctor this week but it was unrelated to being sick. I had actually made the appointment before I got sick. Oh well.
So, that's where we stand with that.
In addition to that, the entire week has been half-days for school. I mean, Stormageddon is on half-days anyway but Little Man is not. Also, conferences were this week. I had both boys' conferences on the same day, an hour apart. Both went as expected. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, just like any other kid. Little Man's strengths include art and culture (history, social studies, etc.) but he also likes math and science, which helps. He's still struggling with writing. He has great ideas but can't always get them down on paper very well. Stormageddon's strengths include math, particularly spatial reasoning, and science. He struggles with his writing as well but his is absolutely the physical act of writing (which is part of why he's going to occupational therapy). Thankfully, they're both right on target for reading (or, in Stormageddon's case, pre-reading).
This photo is interesting. It's outside Stormageddon's class and you can see that he's tried to write his name (I see three G's). He can fully write his name now, where he couldn't when he made this. All the other kids in his class had no trouble writing their names but he could barely hold a pencil the right way around. You can see the big changes he's made over the past three months just from this image and the backside of another one where he wrote his name fully.
With the half-days happening, another parent and I have been tag-teaming our kids. Her younger twins and Stormageddon are in TK at the one school and the twins' older sister and Little Man are in the same grade at the other school....and they get out at the same time on half-days (and every Wednesday). So, this past week, I've been picking up the older kids because we live closer to their school and the other mom is picking up the younger kids because they live closer to that school. One of the twins (the girl, as they are a brother/sister set of twins) is a little sweet on Stormageddon.
They're so cute it hurts. And she will help him (and her twin) get buckled in their carseats and they're just so sweet.
Doesn't look sick, does he? ::sigh:: He was practicing his selfie game the other day. I have a few others where he's doing puffy cheeks or sticking his tongue out. He's kind of silly.
And speaking of the twins....their birthday party was over the weekend at the local trampoline place. They have a climbing wall and this is how far Stormageddon got, which is about halfway up.
Other than that, it was just kind of one of those "keep your head down and breathe until it's all gone" kind of weeks. My college friend went home this morning (back to Minnesota) so now we're sort of back to our normal life...except Stormageddon isn't going to school tomorrow I don't think (we'll see in the morning) and it's a short week because of Thanksgiving and.....who am I kidding? Between now and Christmas, it's going to be crazytown around here!
Anyway, I hope you had a lovely week and weekend!
What a little ham Storm is and loved reading about his academic progress.
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