ELEVENTH Self-Imposed Year of Projects - Rain, I love you! (Update #34)

Woo Monday! Let's get going! I started writing this yesterday but here we are. Oops.

FOs (Finished Objects)
1. Baby Blanket: started 22 April 2022; finished 4 June 2022
2. Herbivore: started 15 November 2018; finished June 2022

Keep dreaming, 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. Linen Stitch Scarf: started 2 June 2020
9. Vanilla Socks: started 9 August 2020
10. Sand Drift Blanket: started 17 January 2021
11. Vanilla Socks: started 12 December 2021
12. Dishcloth: started 25 February 2022
13. Mixed BFL (Annie): started 18 March 2022
14. Lakeline Tank: started 18 March 2022
15. Baby Blanket: started 4 June 2022

I've touched two projects this week and they're the same projects I touched last week: the Vanilla Socks (#11) and the Baby Blanket. 

I finished the heel flap & turn, picked up stitches, and have almost finished the heel gusset decreases on the sock. I worked on it in the car yesterday, which helped immensely.

I'm on the last color for the baby blanket and I've started the countdown for how many rows I have left, not that I should be counting but I am. And then I need to weave in ends and wash and dry and ship them. ::sigh:: Sooooooooon.

 

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. Park Slope (fingering weight - Mountain Fibers Crazyfoot in Shamrock)
2. Flax (worsted weight - Misty Alpaca in the Harry Potter colors)
3. Musselburgh (any weight - likely DK or worsted)*
4. 3 Color Cashmere Cowl (fingering weight, 3 colors)
5. Gradient Band Cowl (fingering weight - Safronie Fairy Tales gradient and a solid)*
6. Fine Tune (fingering weight - uses minis so maybe a rainbow type one with the Canon Hand Dyes?)
7. Stashbusting Helix Hats (worsted weight - bits and bobs of worsted)
8. Hüj Tüb (laceweight - maybe that 100% lace cashmere I've had forever?)
9. Undone (bulky - maybe the reclaimed Freeport Vest yarn?)

 

Children's Items/Knitting for others
1. Flax for Little Man (worsted weight - likely Baah Yarns Shasta in London Blue)
2. Honey Badger: (worsted weight - black & white acrylic I have banging around the stash)*
3. The Mandolorian (sport weight - need grey, white, and green...which I might have)*
4. Zelda Beanie (worsted weight - black or grey and yellow, which I'm sure I have)
5. Wasabi for Mr. K (worsted weight - Cascade 220 in Moss Agate if possible)
6. Bugle for Miss E (worsted weight - multicolor; htNEVELE in Reverie if possible)
7. Bonbon for Miss C (worsted weight - Cascade 220 in Vinci if possible)
8. Baby Bear for Mr. T (fingering weight - anything will work)
9. Pig for Earle & Duane (worsted weight - need pink, of course...maybe a good use for the one skein of Molly Ringwald I have?)

 

Utilitarian/Household Items
1. On-Trend Chair Socks (worsted weight bits and bobs) - I have a lot of chairs that could use these
2. Garter Chevron Blanket (KP Mighty Stitch - may need to get some more black or white)
3. Diagonal Knit Dishcloths (cotton of some sort, possibly a cotton/bamboo blend, depending on use)
4. Reusable Produce Bag (cotton or acrylic of some sort - worsted)
5. Harry Potter Blanket (worsted weight - based on several dishcloth patterns to make blocks)
6. Grandma's Favorite Dishcloth (cotton or a cotton/bamboo blend, again based on use)
7. Pop Blanket (worsted weight - a little of this and that?)
8. Holiday Countdown Stockings (worsted weight - various colors)

 

Spinning:
1. Wonderland Dyeworks BFL in Stream Bed
2. Wonderland Dyeworks BFL in Winter Night
3. Timber Ridge Farm Alpaca Roving
4. Ashland Bay Fiber 100% Merino Top in English Garden
5. Anne's Fiber Expressions Elynenium

 

Dyeing:
1. Sock Blanks (I think I have 5 left)
2. Random worsted/sport skeins (I have maybe 2-3 left)
3. Anything else I find along the way (I don't think there's anything else, but maybe?)

 

Other Fibery Endeavors:
1. Stash Fit
2. Create a project bag inventory
3. Update library inventory (on Ravelry)
4. Update stash inventory (on Ravelry) and reorganize yarn
5. Stitch markers: make kits and individual for Etsy shop
6. Destash as necessary/needed

 

 

I feel like this past week just kind of flew by while I wasn't paying attention. In fact, I missed my Blogiversary, which was on Wednesday. Oops. It's been a hot minute since I started this version of my blog, though I've been blogging since the mid-1990s. I wish I were kidding. It's seriously been almost 30 years of blogging, though it wasn't called that in the early days. In the early days of online blogging, I used LiveJournal, a website that is still in existence but I've not used in....quite awhile. Regardless, this has been my blogging home for the last while. And I missed celebrating it. Oops.

Aside from my Blogiversary, I went to a crafting group meetup on Tuesday. I was with a couple knitters, a crocheter, and two embroidery enthusiasts (embroiderers just sounds wrong, though I know it's correct). I had a delightful mocha milkshake to go with my knitting (which was on the baby blanket). 

Oh, and I know this is totally telling you all that I'm a full-fledged adult, but we checked out a new Costco. The nearest Costco to us is about 26 miles away and takes a half hour to get over there. The new one is 24 miles away and takes less than a half hour to get over there. So, you know, we have choices in our Costco again. I know. we're kind of weird. It's fine. 

Thursday, I took some time and worked on my craft room. Now that the elliptical is fully put together, I was able to take some time and move furniture around, put the headboard and footboard back onto the twin size bed (I was contemplating getting rid of them but Husband pointed out that the bed was a little shaky so they're mostly there for stability - I think they're ugly as sin but whatever). I also hung up pictures, many of which have been stored for a good portion of the last decade.

On this wall, I have three paintings that are by the same artist. I believe they were Christmas gifts to my maternal grandparents and my mom from my grandmother's brother and sister-in-law (my great aunt & great uncle). They also have two more at their house. I also have my mother's engagement picture that hung in my grandparents' house since 1968, and a sampler cross stitch that my paternal great-grandmother made for me when I was a baby (she passed away when I was 10 and she was 90 or 91). Behind the door is a photo of my maternal grandparents when they were King & Queen of my hometown's Norwegian Heritage Celebration (Syttende Mai) and one of the proclamations (there's another one I haven't found yet). There's a bit of space left on this wall, which is fine as I'm not finished yet. Behind where I was sitting to take the photo (from the bed), I have two paintings that my paternal grandfather did. One is of his paternal grandparents' house from his childhood memory, which isn't that far from where I currently live. The other was one of his barn paintings.

The other side of the room has rosemalling (Norwegian rose painting). The three big rectangular pieces behind the elliptical hung in my maternal grandparents' living room for as long as I could remember. They were painted by one of the people that taught my grandmother how to do it. I also have a couple of her pieces hanging, as well as one of my favorite Harry Potter posters, which is difficult to find and I've not had it hung up in over a decade. We just didn't have the space for it in California but I wasn't about to get rid of it. Now I've got it hanging and it makes me smile.

There are still more things to hang and move and address in this room. I plan to work in there this week. I have some boxes that need addressing, some other items that need to be moved, and so on.

I also took a halfway decent photo of the boys this week. Husband was working with his tractor on the other side of the creek that runs through our property and while he was doing that, I got the boys to behave for five seconds for a photo.

Like I said, there hasn't been much going on around here. The boys start school on September 1st, which is the day Husband gets back from his trip to San Francisco for VMWorld. He's leaving on Saturday, which is the same day I'm taking a yarn dyeing class with Mo from Four Crows Fiber. We have some busy stuff next week...not this week, but next week. It'll be fine. 

Anyway, I hope you had a lovely week and weekend!