ELEVENTH Self-Imposed Year of Projects - Next, please. (Update #43)

Happy Sunday! I'm running a bit behind for various reasons, mostly from being busy busy busy! But, I'm here now so let's get going!

 

FOs (Finished Objects)
1. Baby Blanket: started 22 April 2022; finished 4 June 2022
2. Herbivore: started 15 November 2018; finished June 2022
3. Baby Blanket: started 4 June 2022; finished 25 August 2022
4. Venskab (test knit): started 12 September 2022; finished 16 September 2022
5. Vanilla Socks: started 12 December 2021; finished 17 September 2022
6. Baby Blanket: started 4 September 2022; finished 25 September 2022
7. Pattern for Baby Blanket: started 25 September 2022; finished 26 September 2022

Move along now, sir. Just....keep going.

 

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. Dishcloth: started 25 February 2022
12. Mixed BFL (Annie): started 18 March 2022
13. Lakeline Tank: started 18 March 2022
14. Socks: started 28 September 2022
15. Colorfun Hat: started 7 October 2022
16. Bonbon 2: started 15 October 2022

I finished the first foot and leg of Bonbon (and it's stuffed). I did buy another bag of stuffing because I'm not going to have nearly enough (which I already knew). And knowing that I have at least five toys to make means I can use the stuffing. I wound up buying a bigger bag, hoping it will entice me to actually knit the toys! 

I also worked a couple rounds on the new hat while I was down in my craft room earlier this week. Nothing major or extravagant. 

The Vanilla Socks are growing. I'm more than halfway through the foot, having knit at least 12 rounds today. If I keep going at this rate, I may actually have them finished in a timely manner. Or we can all just laugh about it when things don't go the way I intend them to go. 

I don't know that I did any other knitting (though I looked through some things while in the craft room).....that's fine. I was busy doing other things.

I also heard back from the designer of my UW Ski Hat and she's going to search her old records to see if she can find the pattern page that the recliner destroyed. She's been out of the game for a decade now so she may not wind up finding it, which is fine. I can fake the crown and do something different on the edge of the hat (it's supposed to be a braid but I could do an i-cord edge instead, for example). 

 

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. Baby Bear for Mr. T (fingering weight - anything will work)
8. Pig for Earle & Duane (worsted weight - need pink, of course)

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 have a small bin with all my "stuff to dye" in it)

 

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

 

 

We were busy around here this week. Last weekend I mentioned that Husband went up north to pick up some telephone poles from a friends' family farm and they brought them back so we could build a bridge across the creek. Well......the bridge is built. We have five or six telephone poles across, along with some 4x4s on the ends and some under the poles for leveling purposes. Then we used some relcaimed deck boards to run across for stability. It's not the prettiest thing but it's 60" across and holds the weight of the tractor.

 
I did have to replace three of the cross boards because they cracked. That's the price you pay for using recycled materials I suppose. But it does what we need it to do. We're still doing some work around it because the dirt gets compacted as the tractor goes over it so we need to keep adding dirt, which isn't a big deal. 

Once we had the bridge in working order, Husband mowed and tilled the path that has been there for several weeks. It goes down to our neighbor's property and connects to their path. We also took out a tree that had fallen over. That means I got to play with the chainsaw again. 

After clearing that out, Husband mowed more path closer to the creek and tilled it, as well. The plan was that we were going to move my beehives over there. With the weather being above freezing and the ground still soft enough, we worked on that. So he got everything tilled up late this week and I worked on leveling the space, putting down the pavers for the hives to sit (and leveling them), digging out where the wooden frame sits (4'x6'), leveling the wooden frame and bolting the pieces together, adding dirt/mud around the frame to keep it in place, and adding pea gravel to the space. It took me a few hours on Friday to do all that and my body dearly paid for it yesterday and today. I'm still pretty sore, mostly from the digging of the mud. And it was muddy. But, it's done.

 
In short, our big projects were the bridge and the beehive space, as well as mowing/tilling the path on that side of the creek. Good times. 

Yesterday, Husband's best friend and another friend of his and I went to a cider tasting event in my hometown. I ran into very few people I knew or that knew me, which was oddly calming. I didn't feel like I was forced to behave a certain way because of antiquated opinions of me, stemming from my grandparents' position in town (they were business owners and everyone in town knew them). I did run into a cousin, though, which is always a delight. Her paternal grandfather and my paternal grandmother were siblings, so we share a set of great-grandparents. And she's such a wee thing yet. I want to say she's like 13 years younger than I am. But we had all the cider and it was a delightful time.

 

There hasn't been much else going on. I keep hoping this week is going to be quiet but I know it's not. We have things going on for Little Man this week, specifically his IEP review meeting and he has a doctor appointment (he's not sick, just a routine check-up every five years). Oh, and the boys have off school Thursday and Friday for some unknown reason. ::sigh:: At least I'm not building a bridge this week!

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