[YOP] Year of Projects - Year 4 - Week 2

Welcome to week #2 of a year of projects! I am pretty excited with my progress this week!

First off, I finished a project that had been languishing in my WIP pile since September 2013. And I don't even know why I was putting it off! It was a breeze to finish. I completed the second armwarmer of the pair in about 4 hours while re-watching Doctor Who! Awesome right?

I also finished the first sock of the pair I am working on for my Nerd Wars Dissertation project. This means I have made the 50% check-in period with time to spare! And doesn't it look stunning?

My son loved it so much he asked me to make a pair of socks for him. Since one of my goals s to use up some stash yarn, and I want to do this Canadian Designer KAL, we agreed to make the Vinovia Socks in the Schachenmayr Regia Ffluormania Color since I had 6 skeins in my stash. My son chose the Neon Ocean colourway. This should be fun!

In summary:

• I finished one project (Simple Armwarmers from my list)
• I did not start any new projects (but plan on starting the boy's socks soon)
• I did not use stash yarn (but again, plan on doing so with the boy's socks)
• I did sort of buy new yarn as I placed a custom order for T12's dissertation
• I took some of my unloved yarn to my mother's house this weekend and placed still more in a charity donation pile
• I added some stash to Ravelry, mostly the Fluromania (6 balls) as mentioned above
• I did not get any work done on my stash room, but the hubby and I worked on the other half of the basement now that the sister is gone (it is not a pantry/library/work space)

Specific Project Goals

• My Nerd Wars T11 Dissertation project - show off stranded socks
  (50% completed July 13, 2014)
• New Life Building Blocks Baby Blanket
  (50% completed block 6 of 25 July 13, 2014)
• The second Simple Armwarmer
  (Completed July 5th 2014)
• The West Linton Cowl
  (25% completed July 13, 2014)
• Smock Coat
  (This is my travel knitting project right now, did a few rows this weekend)

[YOP] Year of Projects - Year 4 - Week 1

Wow! Where the heck have I been? No posts since November 2013? Shame on me! Well here's hoping this changes all of that!

I decided this year to take part in "A Year of Projects" which is run by a group over on Ravelry. I am hoping it will (a) help me be more productive (b) helps me finish more projects and (c) help me blog more often... Fingers crossed!

As this is week #1 of 52 our first assignment is to simply post a list of what we hope to achieve this year. Easy right? The hard part will be checking in every week to see how I have progressed with this list...

General Overall Goals

• finish more projects
• start fewer projects
• use more stash yarn
• buy less new yarn
• sell or donate stash yarn I no longer have any interest in
• add stash I plan on keeping to Ravelry for easier tracking
• organize stash room
• sell some of my finished items

Technique Goals

• double knitting
• toe up socks
• toe up socks two at a time
• more complicated lacework
• clothing items

Specific Project Goals

• My Nerd Wars T11 Dissertation project - show off stranded socks
• My River Song inspired book/tablet cover
• My Tabitha Cocoon Cardigan 
• My Sherlocked Sockies
• New Life Building Blocks Baby Blanket
• My Dragon's Rest Shawl - Smauglock
• My Game of Thrones Shawl KAL - Mother of Dragons
• My Boo Knits KAL - Ocean Breeze - Es-cah-pay
• My Rose Annie
• My All The Shades of Truth - 50 Shades of Awesome
• My Skywalker
• Season 12 Doctor Who Scarf for the hubby
• My son's sweater
• The second Simple Armwarmer
• The matching Simple Hat
• The West Linton Cowl
• The sleeves of my Simple Cardi
• The sleeves of my Mothed

I have many other WIPs and I cannot list them all. I will add more as I dig them out and actually touch them again to make sure they are real... As you can see I have a real starting problem...actually it's not starting that's the problem...it's finishing!

But I did finish something this year!!!

See! It can be done! ;)