Year of Projects: Week 12

I had a fairly busy crafting week. Procrastination at its finest. I realized over the weekend I needed to get cracking if I wanted to finish up some gifts for my coworkers. A bit ago I made a Cable Me a Pumpkin Hat for Cara's unborn son.

I wanted to make a hat for Bobby's daughter who's about a month old now. I have a bin of baby acrylic from my early knitting days. Most of it isn't even entered into my Ravelry stash. When I was digging through it I found some Bernat Baby Blanket yarn I forgot I even had. I made a Poppy hat for Bobby's daughter.

Then I started on two blankets. I didn't use patterns, just winged it. I made a corner to corner in boys colors.

I had a bit more girly colors so I did a larger one with the girly yarn. (I was also trying to use up as much yarn as I could.)

I did a very simple eyelet border around the edges. I didn't finish the girly blanket til after I went back to work but I had gotten most of it done Tuesday, so I was able to finish it up Thursday morning. Both Cara and Bobby seemed pleased with the gifts. I'm going to miss a lot of the people from my Rochester contract. But I won't miss that drive, especially with winter coming.

On Wednesday I had a very minor outpatient procedure. I've had a pilar cyst on top of my head in my hair for a number of years now. It wasn't huge but it got stabbed when I was getting hilights once and since its been open and ooozy. Well as of Wednesday its gone. I apparently bled a lot more than they expected, but it went otherwise well for me. I have to return to get my sutures out.

Today I started another pair of Drops of Spring mitts. I finished one and started a second, but I've run out of Vaa completely. I do have a full skein that I'm going to have to break into to finish these. I added 5 more rounds to the top as I like a longer mitt. I like how these colors play together. I still have one more color combo I want to do.

I think that's about it for crafting this week. I've been reading again over the past few weeks. It's been so long since I made time to read a book. I missed it more than I realized. I read a spicy science fiction book that was phenomenal. The Viridian Priestess by Katrina Calandra. It was soooo good. Amazing world building, dark and mysterious male main character, humor, friendships. I had withdrawl for a few days afterward so I'm currently re-reading Sunshine by Robin McKinley. Its a no spice vampire book. Robin is such an amazing author. I think she could make a phone book interesting. Alrighty I think that's it for me this week.

Until later. Happy crafting!

-Q

YOP: Week 29

The fair was a success. My items did well and Liara got some ribbons as well. We went to the parade on Tuesday, then down to the grounds once it was over. We stopped by one local vender to grab some jewelry, grabbed some donuts from the Donut Diner then went to see how we placed. Liara entered earrings that she hand-made with clay. They did not place. She entered a beaded bracelet that got first. She also entered three of her drawings. A Pegasus, a bunny and a magical worm. The bunny and the worm received third and the Pegasus received second. The bunny is my personal favorite of all the drawings she's done. There is always a really good turn out in the drawing and photography categories, so she was up against some stiff competition. I'm really happy she received some ribbons. My items are as follows: Rotini Beanie; First Enchantress MKAL; First. Sunburst Potholder; Second. Cow and Hen Dishcloth set; ...

YOP: Week 52

As the year comes to a close, I've been looking at my queue and starting to plan out a few projects for 2025. After having to cold sheep for the majority of this past year, I'm going into next year with some guidelines. When I purchase yarn, I really want to stick to purchasing for specific patterns. I took advantage of Miss Babs annual gratitude sale and purchased specifically for two patterns. I also want to continue to knit from stash whenever possible. I have paired up yarn with patterns for several and they've been moved up in my queue. I'll have more time, so I plan to participate in several swaps in 2025. I'll be getting yarn from these so I'm going to try to stick to swaps only for "unplanned" stash acquisition. I have several carry-over projects I didn't get to this year, which seems to be a theme every year. So tentatively this is my meager list for 2025: - Butterfly--Papillon with Urth Ya...

Year of Projects: Week 53; El Fin.

I thought I'd do a quick review of my Year of Projects. I started participating around week 5 so I'm summing up my year from that point to present. I have 24 project entries on Ravelry. (If I do several dishcloths back-to-back, I usually only make one project entry, so there are more than 24 individual finished items. Direct Link to Goal Post: YOP first post I finished: -3 pairs of fingerless mitts -2 pairs of mittens -2 pairs of socks -5 hats -2 cowls -2 baby blankets -16 dishcloths -1 potholder -1 shawl I have one sock that's going to be frogged and half of another dishcloth that's sitting around because I ran out of that colorway of yarn. I do have a few other WIPs still hanging about from prior to August of last year. (We're going to keep pretending they don't exist.) I made a simple little picture "movie" of my projects, enjoy: As far as my quickly thrown together list: I completed 3/5 of my projected projects......

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