Year the TENTH: Self-Imposed Year of Projects - The weather has been delightful (Update #7)

 Hello and happiest of Sundays to you! While the rest of the country seems to be dealing with ice and snow, we have had some minimal rain, some wind, and mostly delightful weather. I will say that I do not hate winter in California. Anyway, let's get on with today's update.

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. Not surprising.

 

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

Admittedly, there's been very little knitting this past week. Again. It's not that I didn't do any knitting but what I did was pretty minimal. I finished up the leg portion of the Minecraft Socks and I'm working on the heel. Hopefully I'll have that finished up soon enough. I've been using these during Stormageddon's meetings because they're interesting enough but I don't necessarily have to pay a ton of attention (says me, who had to tink back a few rounds twice because it was apparent that I couldn't count to three). 

I also worked a little on the Sand Drift Blanket. It's one of those projects that is fairly meditative but you need a big chunk of time to work on it...and then you feel like you're not making any progress. ::sigh:: Regardless, I did a couple rows and that's delightful. 

But that's it!

 

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

 

Husband has been busy this week. He has two 3D printers - a Prusa and a Prusa Mini. He's been working on making Mandolorian helmets for awhile. The first attempt was done at 125% and was way too big. I think I posted about it before. It was more like Spaceballs and less like Star Wars. So, he made one at 100% (worn by Stormageddon), which was too small for him. He could get it on but he had to move his mouth weird to get it over his cheeks. Then he made one at 105% (worn by Little Man), which was still a little too small. He finally settled on 110% for him, which is what he's wearing. He's still not completely finished. He's going to paint them black, then paint them mirror chrome on top of the black, which should turn out really well. As such, these are how they look right now.

 
I have a little family of Mandolorians!

Husband isn't the only one that's been creative. I decided to make cookies this week. A friend had posted a recipe for banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and I decided it sounded good. It winds up making a double batch, because it uses three bananas so I wound up freezing half the dough (which is currently in my fridge thawing out to make more). The cookies end up really  moist and are likely to mold quickly, hence the freezing. They didn't last very long, to be honest...although, I did practically have to shove a chunk in Stormageddon's mouth to get him to properly try it. ::sigh:: That child!

 

But wait! That's not all! Stormageddon made a Valentine on Monday as part of a school project. I think this one is for Husband :)

He was very proud of himself. Also, do you see this child? This is how he was sitting to play video games earlier this week (Luigi's Mansion 3, in case you're interested). I cannot sit like that. It hurts my knees. To be fair, I've never been able to really sit like that because it hurts my knees. But look at him! Just sitting there like it's nothing!

I also caught him hiding under blankets in Little Man's room. To be fair, Little Man was trying to make a bed on the floor for some reason and Stormageddon comondeered it. I'm pretty sure those are all Little Man's blankets and Stormageddon is just hiding under them. Silly child.

And speaking of Little Man! Do you see how big this child is?! I'm just able to rest my chin on top of his head. Barely. He's getting so damn tall and growing out of all the size 10 pants he has (and even some of the size 12 ones - but not the 14s...yet). His feet are almost as big as mine. But the hilarious thing about this photo is the shirt. He's had this shirt for about seven years now. Auntie bought it for him when we went on a cruise and he's been wearing it as a sleeping shirt ever since. This shirt used to go down past his knees and cover his arms almost to his wrists. And now it's a perfect fit. I'm not looking forward to the day when he can't wear it anymore. ::sigh:: It's going to be a sad day.

Anyway, I hope you've had a good week and weekend. Tomorrow is Presidents' Day in the US, which means the boys don't have school and a bunch of places have sales. What it's really about is a day to celebrate all the US Presidents and it's in February because George Washington's birthday was February 22, 1732 and Abraham Lincoln's birthday was February 12, 1809 and they're two of our most famous presidents. So, there's that. Oh, and it's Valentine's Day. Woot woot!