Craft Wrap-Up

[imjustlori]

I know! More than a month has gone by. Let's see where things are, shall we?

Quilting (still nothing! this time I blame the battle against the fleas. we won, and I have been making progress on finding the table again [and have a free and clear weekend], so expect something next week.)

• Mystery Quilt: (ignored) pieced the center of the top. Starting to think about the fiddly piecing that has to happen, though, and might wrap this one up soon. Still thinking about this, and want to get it moving again before the end of the month.


• The Boy's Quilt: (ignored)  I need to clean my floor, move furniture, and get this sandwiched.


• My Quilt: (ignored) With the need to think of my son's quilt's finishing, I think this one will sit a little longer.


• The jelly roll quilt: (ignored until the Mystery Quilt is done) Still waiting for something to be completed.

Knitting

• Birthday tank top: Surprise! Neckline picked up and knit! And it looks like there will be enough yarn to knit the armholes too. Which means more picking up. Oh, joy.


• LIME GREEN TANK: picked up this week, made it through a whole repeat. Almost halfway up the "tube" before teh interesting things happen in the pattern again.


• Orange top: One side of "the bit with holes in" is done. I'm somewhere on the second side, then there's the shoulder bindoff, and that's that. I think.


• The (new) socks: Most of the way down the foot of sock 1. Really need to try it on and see if we're ready for the toe, and get this moving again.


• Dishcloths: Done.  9/9 complete. Ha HA! Take that, Christmas knitting!


• Boy socks: Something new! This is where most of my energy has gone. I was hoping to start this school year off with new socks for the Boy. Pulled out the old pattern, some fun yarn I got just for him, motored along, and had him try it on after I'd knit through the heel, so I could get the length right. He couldn't get it on over his heel. So I ripped it back out, added eight stitches, got that far again, and had him try it on. Again. This time, it fit--perfectly. I'm decreasing the toe (a second time--the first was short, even WITH measuring), and will rinse and repeat to make a pair. Now that I have the updated numbers, the second sock will not take anywhere NEAR as long. At least, it better not. Or he might grow again.


• Sekrit Knitting: Not super-secret, but nothing I can talk about. Not much to say about it either. But it did eat about a week of my knit-time.

Cross Stitch (move along, move along...)

• Yellowstone Lodge: (ignored)

Spinning

• Selfish sock yarn: Single has been spun. Hoping to ply it tomorrow and wash/whack it over Fri/Sat, to have it ready for the county fair entry dropoff on Monday.


• 3#Fiber: (ignored) I'm going to start the test-spinning to reach a DK or Worsted eventually...I want a true 3-ply, I think. Must plan on how to arrange the singles while I spin it all up.


• Blue-green gradient: last weekend at the Market, I lost the end in the bobbin somewhere, and couldn't find it. So the bobbin went into time out until last night, when I finally teased out the end and got spinning again. I'm just about done with the blue, and moving solidly into the greens.


• Something New: Because I lost the end with hours left before the Market ended, I picked one of the bedraggled hand-dyed fibers I hang up every time, and started spinning that. It was only two ounces, so it went quickly. I say went because it's now plied and sitting on my niddy noddy overnight before I wash and whack it tomorrow. It's the last of my Seussian colorway, and I know someone will give this quirky yarn a good home.


• The Jacob fleece has been on my mind again. But I think I should hold off on spinning that until I've gotten some more of the in-process spinning complete. There's two other partial-projects on the bobbins downstairs that have been languishing for a while, and I'd like that space on my table back as well. Maybe next up will be the rest of the "Fluff and Stuff" bag with which I shall ply the silver laceweight yarn. We shall see.