Year NINE: Self-Imposed Year of Projects - Happy November (Update #44)

 Hello! Happy Sunday! Happy November! Happy All Saints Day! Happy happy happy? Meh. Whatever. Let's get going.

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
13. Prototype Something Something cowl: started 11 September 2020; finished 17 October 2020

Nope. Move along.

 

 

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. Come Sail Away: started 17 October 2020

I would love to say that I spent a ton of time knitting this week but I'd be lying. A lot. 

Honestly, I don't know that I did any knitting this past week at all, except maybe for a row or two on the baby blanket. I wish I were kidding. The sad part is that it's not like this past week was all that busy!

So, no real knitting this past week and that's sad. 

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

 

 

Seriously, it was not a busy week around here! Little Man had a biography to write, which took us a few days to complete (we had the information picked out the week before so all he had to do was organize it and write the paper, which really meant him dictating and me typing, which is fine). He then had to do a video of him reading his biography which we uploaded to a class site. He also had to do an in-class presentation that was limited to four minutes, which wasn't all that difficult. Because it was all the 4th and 5th graders, their three teachers altered schedules so they didn't have much to work on aside from their biographies.

Stormageddon just had his regular class meetings. They don't have to do the biography in kindergarten and 1st grade. They did dress up in their costumes on Friday for class, which was nice. The kids were so excited, even if it was all done virtually. Usually, they have a parade of costumes for the preschool, kinders, and 1st graders at the school and then the 2nd-5th graders have historical timeline (basically, all the kids are lined up based on the birthdate of the person they've picked for their biography, in costume and the middle schoolers give information about the time periods like what was going on in the world, major advancements, etc.). It's actually a lot of fun. Buuuuut, this year, we didn't get to do that. It's okay, though. 

 

 

Little Man was Alexander Hamilton. He wasn't the only one, of course. I know one of his friends also picked Hamilton. He's only dressed in costume from the waist up because why bother with the pants if no one was going to see them? He also had the hat but not for this photo.

 

Stormageddon pulled out the Spiderman costume he wore last year. It was fine. He didn't care. And he was cute so all is well.

 

 

 

On Halloween, meaning yesterday, we stayed home, not doing much until the late afternoon. We had friends stop by (one of Stormageddon's classmates was dying to see him in-person - her older sister and Little Man have been together since they were in kindergarten so Stormageddon and his friend have known each other since they were still in strollers). We also went for a drive to see Halloween decorations around town and stopped by a different friends' place (she bought a pastry mat for me and I needed to pick it up so we were out that way anyway). Then we came home, had some candy, and didn't do much else. We didn't even watch a movie! I'm so ashamed!

 

Other than that, not much has been happening around here. We moved a bookshelf from our front room to Little Man's room because Husband's building an enclosure for his 3D printer and putting it in that space, which meant that things housed on said bookshelf needed to be relocated. Most of it has been moved to my bookshelves in the bedroom, some are in plastic bins under the bed (photo albums from my family - like my great-grandparents' photos), and some things were put elsewhere. Stormageddon's room is going to get a thorough going-over one of these days. He has too many toys with missing/broken pieces, and some things that just take up an asinine amount of space in his room and he doesn't use them or he's too big for them (think push cars and an egg chair). Those need to go. Then maybe we can organize his room a bit better. His room is quite a bit smaller than Little Man's so we have to use our vertical space better in his room. It doesn't help that the closet in his room houses things like our vacuum cleaner and the leaves for the table. We do not have another space for those. So he has an armoire/wardrobe for his clothes and other things that is separate from the built-in closet. 

Someday. Someday. ::sigh::

I hope you've had a lovely week and weekend and maybe I'll actually do some knitting this week and have something to show for it!