Year the TENTH: Self-Imposed Year of Projects - I hear the Superb Owl LARP is happening today! (Update #6)

I hear that the Superb Owl LARP is happening later today. 

 

Who cares?

 

Let's get going on the important stuff, like my Year of Projects!

 

 
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

Nope. Nothing new to see here, move along now, Sir.

 

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

I would love to say that I spent so much time knitting this week. I'd be lying, of course, but I would love to say it for once. 

With that said, I did make some progress...on maybe one or two projects. I worked on the Minecraft Socks this week and I think I've got 3 of the 5 pattern repeats done on the leg. I think there are 11 pattern repeats total so I'm really not that far along but I have worked on them. 

I also pulled out the Sand Drift Blanket. I'm about this far along:

 

 

Considering that it's 185 stitches across, this is actually some decent progress. The rows take me awhile to complete and it's something like two-color linen stitch. It's kind of therapeutic and methodical so it's not bad to work on, other than the rows taking forever.   

I may have also worked in either the Vanilla Socks or the Linen Stitch Scarf but not a lot and I honestly don't remember if that's true or not. Oh well.

 

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. 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:

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
2. Skeins of sock yarn
3. Random worsted/sport skeins

4. Anything else I find along the way

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*

4. Stitch markers: kits and individual

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

6. Stash Fit

 

 

 

This week, I came down with something unpleasant. I'm not entirely sure what it was other than some sort of stomach bug that only I managed to get. We had McDonald's for lunch one day this week and it just did not sit well with me. I was sick for like three days and I'm still not 100% but at least I'm hungry now. That's how you know I'm really sick is when I don't want to eat. I just was not hungry and my stomach was mad and my guts were mad and my body was just angry with me. It seriously took a few days to get it out of my system. Thankfully, no one else got it (even though they all had McDonald's, too). I was miserable. 

 

So, that's part of why I didn't get a lot of knitting accomplished this past week. 

 

We had other things happening, as well. The boys had a Materials Pickup Day on Friday, which meant that we went to the school to drop off finished work and pick up new work. I also took Stormageddon on a car ride down to Walmart and then to Target to do pickup orders. Little Man rode his bike to school on Friday so he didn't come in the car with us. I also had a PTA Board Meeting this week, which kind of gave me a headache, if truth be told. We were talking about next years' budget and it kind of makes me crazy. I'm glad I don't have to make any of those hard decisions (other than voting for them at our budget meeting, which is probably in March). I also went to a Principal Coffee Chat yesterday, which was mostly about the reopening plan for Hybrid Learning, currently slated for March 1st with the Kinders & 1st graders. Neither Little Man nor Stormageddon will be going back for in-person learning until fall, at the earliest (and that depends on how vaccine rollout goes), but it's still important to know the plan, even if we are not partaking in it. 

Mostly, this week was just kind of a jumble. Stormageddon spent some time coloring, per his occupational therapist. 

 

 

 

He was asked to lay on his belly to color the above photo, which he happily did. The photo below, he taped the picture to his wall and colored it that way. Both are good for hand and upper-body strength needed for writing. 

 

 

Yesterday, the boys went out on their bikes for a bit. Stormageddon needs his seat raised already! He's still using trainers, which is fine because he's only six. Right now, he's learning how to be aware of his surroundings, pedaling, and turning. 

 

 

 

Little Man is fine, but he wanted to ride with his little brother. So we rode on the side of our house. There's a dead-end there so we rarely get traffic, except for people parking their cars or that work for the tree trimming company that PG&E uses (all their trucks are parked on the PG&E lot). 

 

This morning, Stormageddon wanted to play a round of Twister. He's so funny. I don't think he quite understands that your butt isn't supposed to be on the floor.  He did get himself pretty twisted up, regardless.

 

 

This last photo (below) is of Little Man's Mission: Mission San Francisco de Asis, also known as Mission Dolores. We are going to redo the base and some of the tape and such but it's pretty much finished. He needs to do the cemetery and we'll fix the steps going into the basilica. Now we just need to work on his paper, which shouldn't be that difficult if we just work on it. He seems to like this project, for the most part. The other day, he and I had an impromptu history lesson that started with the treatment of Native people in the 1870s (because they're reading Little House on the Prairie for school), the Homestead Act of 1862, the importance of religion and how that has changed throughout time, King Henry VIII and his wives, and back to colonizer treatment of Native peoples. We included going over some of the work for his Mission project because the Native people of California were "converted" to Catholicism through the Missions, forced to do the labor at the Missions (and Parasidios), children were sent to the Mission school, and they were punished, often severely, if they tried to revert back to their Native ways or leave the Mission. Honestly, Mission history is a hot mess. So much wrong in the name of religion (hence how a lot of the discussion started in the first place).

 

Aside from that, it's been a pretty benign week. I'm hoping that more exciting things are coming but really, we're in a pandemic. We get up, do our thing, hardly leave the house, and call it good. I don't know what all else we can really do at this point until the vaccination rollout is better organized. We'll see. 

I hope you've had a lovely week and weekend!