Year NINE: Self-Imposed Year of Projects - Have gun, will travel, reads the heart of a man... (Update #41)

 Happy Monday! I'm a day late and a dollar short because we're traveling right now. The boys are on fall break and we decided to meet Husband's parents in South Dakota to see Mt. Rushmore. 

So, that's why this is all late and such :)

 

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

Nope. Nothing to see here.

 

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

Up until we left for our trip on Saturday morning, I hadn't done a lot of knitting. I did work on a granny square and maybe some rounds on the Vanilla Sock. Then we left for our trip. I spent a good chunk of time working on the cowl and I've made some decent progress. I'm on the 4th section of the pattern (out of six) and I was on the ribbing when I started. I don't know that I'll have it finished by the time we get home but you never know. I also worked on the Vanilla Socks in the car. In addition to those two projects, I also brought the Minecraft Socks and the granny squares. 

We'll see how it goes.

 

OMFGLSGWTFBBQ Lists

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)

Items for ME (Selfish Knitting FTW!):

1. Autopilot (worsted weight - Sincere Sheep Cormo Worsted or htNEVELE Worsted in Reveire)

2. Rose's Wrist Warmers (DK weight - using Aran instead; hand-dyed Malabrigo Twist?)

3. Perianth (fingering weight - Knitcircus Trampoline in The Whole Enchilada)

4. Pembroke Scarf (fingering weight - Fresh From the Cauldron Schoodic Sock in Sookie)

5. Flax (worsted weight - Misty Alpaca in the Harry Potter colors)

6. Park Slope (fingering weight - Mountain Fibers Crazyfoot in Shamrock)

7. Socks (fingering weight - I have tons...pick something!)

8. Washcloths/chewcloths (worsted weight - cotton)

9. Sockhead (fingering - I have tons...pick something!)

10. Age of Brass & Steam (Handspun purple/white barber pole)

Designs:

1. Christmas Stocking for Husband

2. Christmas Stocking for Little Man

3. Christmas Stocking for Stormageddon

4. Baby Blanket

Spinning:

1. Wonderland Dyeworks BFL

2. Mixed BFL

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

4. Alpaca (from Lambtown 2014)

5. Fiberlady.com 100% Bamboo 

Dyeing:

1. Sock Blanks
2. Skeins of sock yarn

3. Anything else I find along the way

Other Fibery Endeavors:

1. Create project bag inventory

2. Update library inventory (on Ravelry)

3. Update stash inventory (on Ravelry)

4. Stitch markers

5. Destash as necessary

6. Stash Fit

 

 

Because we're traveling, I've not had time to update my photos, which means this is a photoless post. Next week, I'll probably have double the photos!

 

The past week has been pretty good, for the most part. The boys had their school things happening, of course. A new Nerf gun was added to our arsenal and I'm pretty sure a Nerf War happened this past week. Stormageddon and I played some games of Connect Four, and then he played with Little Man. Little Man caught another snake in the yard (same kind as before but a bigger one). This one coiled around him a bit, looking for warmth. 

 

We left on Saturday morning for our trip. We drove from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday. We went through Reno, Nevada, and we got to see the salt flats (where people go to drive cars really fast on, essentially, desert). No, we didn't stop at Jimmy Beans (woe!). The drive was mostly uneventful except when we almost died. Someone didn't properly tie down a wrought-iron table in the back of a pickup truck and it went flying. It almost hit us and then we almost it it. Husband couldn't scoot around it (it was that close to my car) so I had to get out of the car on the left shoulder on an interstate highway to move it so we could keep going. 

 

Do not recommend. 

 

Sunday we drove from Salt Lake City to where we're staying, south of Rapid City, South Dakota. The drive through Wyoming was....flat, kind of boring, but still pretty....until we hit rain and sleet on a back state highway. 

 

Again, do not recommend. 

 

That brings us to today. We saw Mt. Rushmore and went to Crazy Horse (I could write an entire blog post about the Crazy Horse Memorial and it wouldn't be pretty - let's just say that the Sioux tribe wants it destroyed), plus drove about an hour east and stopped at Wall Drug (because why not?), before getting Culver's in Rapid City. Culver's is a Wisconsin fast food chain. I mean, there are locations outside of Wisconsin but not many. There are three in Rapid City but then there are none west of there (except a random one in Tuscon, Arizona). 

Tomorrow, we're going to relax and we head out on Thursday. Our original plan was to go south to the Grand Canyon, driving through part of the Rockies in Colorado but we found out that damn near everything is closed at the Grand Canyon. We haven't decided for sure how we're going to proceed but we'll probably look to head home on Thursday instead of going southward. 

Anyway, I hope you've had a lovely week and weekend and start of the week!