Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Sept Mid-Month planning

1) WIP the First - DONE 



2) Class 1 - hat - DONE - Olifvander’s - charity hat 



3) NEWT to 50% - DONE




4) Pair of Yoga socks - DONE - Flourish & Botts leg protection 



5) Blanket square #1 - simple square, DONE - Quality Quidditch Supplies - selling it as a cloth for cleaning up -- plan on donating this to a baby blanket for a pride-mate



6) Blanket Square #2 - not so fast, an aran square - Apothecary - blue antique bottles as inspiriation NOT STARTED

7) Planned Partial - a mitered top for me - changing to Magical Menagerie class... original pattern was started and frogged three times before I decided it was not the pattern for me for this time... instead cast on and started a top that has vertical strips used in construction. Hoping it will still let me show off the good yarn and have some fun with construction.

8) Will probably have a hat (or three) on the needles for my traveling knitting - those will get tossed into Madame Maxime’s class at the end of the month Change of plans - one DONE and turned in




9) Quidditch Know Your Nimbus - hat made with favorite yarn and favorite top-of-the-line tools (addi clicks) DONE



10) Quidditch Know Your position - Yarn buster baby blanket (planning one for this month and the other for October) DONE



Unplanned, but DONE

A bracelet for Potage's Cauldron Shop


I'd also like to get Pikachu (yellow blob above) done this month, plus six more blocks, plus get the top as close to done as I can, plus my Aran square AND not the least, at least one more (or two or three) charity hats for Knockturn Alley. 

First half of the month was awesome and I was dedicated and look at all I got done. BUT, now it's been a couple of days where I haven't been able to knit hardly at all... and I can't find the yarn I need that I am running low on for Pikachu. Sigh. Been a rough week.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Sept planning

1) WIP the First - DONE - just had to weave in the ends on a charity hat (have two more sitting & waiting for future WIPtheFirsts 

2) Class 1 - hat - DONE - Olifvander’s - charity hat 

3) NEWT to 50% - I have two more squares to make plus getting my second stuffie to 50% - where I’m at about 10%  -- hope to make this goal within two weeks; then perhaps get another 6 squares and be within two hours-ish of finishing the second stuffie (for Oct Flexible Scheduling)

4) Pair of Yoga socks - should be relatively fast - Flourish & Botts leg protection 

5) Blanket square #1 - simple square, should also be quick - Quality Quidditch Supplies - selling it as a cloth for cleaning up -- plan on donating this to a baby blanket for a pride-mate

6) Blanket Square #2 - not so fast, an aran square - Apothecary - blue antique bottles as inspiriation 

7) Planned Partial - a mitered top for me - Knockturn Alley with the self-striping mitering meant to distort view - but might need to put it into a different class/shop 

8) Will probably have a hat (or three) on the needles for my traveling knitting - those will get tossed into Madame Maxime’s class at the end of the month 

9) Quidditch Know Your Nimbus - hat made with favorite yarn and favorite top-of-the-line tools (addi clicks) 

10) Quidditch Know Your position - Yarn buster baby blanket (planning one for this month and the other for October)

Makes me a little tired just thinking about it. Especially since I'm at a never-ending stockinette stage on the Pikachu.

August - EOM wrap-up

NEWT- out of the 21 squares, I completed 10 (counting 12 as 50%)
           - out of the 3 stuffies, I completed 1 and got the other one started (counting 1 1/2 at 50%)

Hats for NerdWars - I completed four full hats and got them turned in for various prompts; plus got 3 hats to the almost-done, just need ends woven in for future WIP projects tocomplete for detention.

Plus I got the Baby blanket seamed from the donated squares and sent off to the new mom. :-)  I am quite pleased with the end results.