Random Monday - Idea stolen shamelessly from The Yarn Harlot, who did the same from someone else

Now, it seems I am terrible at updating my blog. I’ve tried a couple of times, but I’ve never been able to get a good start.

So, this time ‘round, I’m just going. Whatever I type is what gets published. (With a few spellchecking run-overs.)

First: I broke my replacement yarn bowl (Long story short: I bought and painted a ceramic bowl, shattered it, bough a new one and painted that…and broke it.). It is still slightly useable, with a bit of Polish-fix-jobbing. (Gotta love binder clips.)

Second: I got a replacement yarn pitcher (didn’t paint this, got it for a buck at a garage sale) for my replacement yarn bowl.

Third: I have finished no projects since, like, Father’s Day.

Fourth: I have started other projects, though.

Fifth: I am behind on projects.

Sixth: Mainly because I ran out of yarn. Yay.

Seventh: The yarn is out of stock at my local Joann’s, and the website doesn’t work on my computer, and my mom can’t find the yarn colour on her computer. So, we go in store on Wednesday and order it from there.

Eighth: Speaking of which, I need to check how many balls of pink yarn I’ve used so far in my weather blanket, so as to buy the same amount to finish off the year. Where do I keep about 10 balls of pink yarn? I have no more room in my room… (Weather blanket explanation to come later.)

Ninth: I’m halfway through my weather blanket. Which means… we’re half way done with 2014. Scary-wary!

Tenth: We went to a museum.

Eleventh, just like Matt Smith: We are now brought to the actual project part of my post. You see, in the above picture, me holding a half-finished sock, knit in KnitPicks Stroll Tonal (Lullaby), in the stitch pattern Gingerbread Rib. My own improvised pattern. So, I shall catch you up with what is in the works.

Project #1: Mom’s Mother’s Day socks. Yes. You read that right. Mother’s Day socks. Do not mock, you know you have projects like that. So, these are farther along in real life than in the picture, I’m past the heel and I’ve got about 4.5”(11.5cm) of the foot done. I have a deadline of finishing these by tomorrow, and that’s right on schedule. (I was supposed to knit 3.25”(8cm) of the foot today, and the rest tomorrow. Boomsauce.)

Okay, so I may have mislead you in a past statement… this is only the first sock. I have another to knit, and probably not enough yarn. Story of my life.

Project #2: My brother’s Christmas gift fingerless gloves. This time you have no cause to mock… 2014 Christmas gift. I’m SO ahead. Thing is, I’ve got to knit the fingers and thumb yet, and I don’t look forward to doing that, since I modified the pattern and I’ve got to figure all the math out. Ew.

 (*insert picture of beige half-finished fingerless gloves here... can't seem to locate this one on my computer. They have a 2-stitch cable design on the back...*)

Project #3: A swatch for my sister’s Christmas socks. Again, 2014 Christmas gift. I have the bottom garter border done, and I need to get it to be at least 4”(10cm) tall, plus an inch border, so 5”(2.75cm). They’re going to be cabled knee-high socks. I think I will also run out of yarn on this project. Can I just not run out of yarn on a project? Please?

(Again. Another picture of cream garter stitch on a green needle. Sorry, folks!)

Project #4: Weather blanket. This is part of an –along that I’m doing with a group of Ravelry people (Still open, if you’d like to join. Explanations of it all are at the Weather Knitting or Crochet group on Ravelry). I, personally, will be crocheting one row of single crochet every day for a year, to end up with a blanket. Each day I will pay attention (heh…heh…I’m funny, aren’t I? Pay attention, what was I thinking?) to the weather, and note whether it is sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowing, or hailing, and crochet a row in a colour that corresponds. For example, I have pink for sunny, black for cloudy and raining, and white for snowing and hailing, so if Monday was cloudy, Tuesday was rainy, and Wednesday it hailed, I’d do a row each of pink, black, and white, in that order. I’ve been doing this since January, so I’m halfway finished.  Now, I’ve been out of pink yarn since July 2^nd, so I’m just the slightest bit behind. 

Pencil for scale

 

I plan to finish all four listed projects (or catch up, as the case may be), by July 31^st, so as to be done by the missions trip my youth group is going on. I have things sorted out so that if I stay on schedule, which is hard for me, I can finish all my projects on July 30^th. Then again, it may take a longer time than expected to get my yarn, so I may have to be a teensy bit late on my weather blanket.