End of October Update

WIPs (new ones are bolded)

Ten Stitch Blanket, Caron Cakes (started 2019)

Bright Stripes Throw, Caron Anniversary Cakes (started September 5, 2024)

Cable Car Coat, Bernat Chunky Solids (Bulky) (started February 6, 2025)

Mini Mania Scarf II, leftover fingering-weight yarns (started February 18, 2025)

Winter Ribbed Scarf II, Mary Maxim Glimmer (not my yarn, started March 30, 2025)

Musselburgh, Hedgehog Fibres (started August 17, 2025)

Mindless on the Train, Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport Multi (started August 26, 2025)

Fingerless Gloves "Musica", Laine Fav Socks (started August 28, 2025)

Compass, Lion Brand Mandala Sparkle (started September 7, 2025)

Trusty Toe Up Socks, Mary Maxim Perfectly Paired Duo (started October 31, 2025)

Hibernating

Dancing Bees MKAL, Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace (started 2015 - oops)

End of month yarn stats:  46 entries, 75 skeins, 22255.50 metres, 7925 grams.

I did nothing!  Absolutely nothing!  At least, from my goals (except the cold sheeping - I did that, unwillingly).

I haven't touched the projects from the Montreal trip, I haven't updated the MKAL project page with final pictures, and I certainly didn't share any pictures from the trip.  I totally started two new projects (one specifically for a concert and one for Walter).  I've been working at the Mini Mania scarf and that's gotten some of the fingering-weight yarn ends out of the stash.

We had a flood at work (water main break) and that's been quite the headache, since regular operations still have to proceed even during clean-up.  We also had a trade show to attend (that was this last Monday to Thursday), so prep for that had to continue as well.  It's been chaotic and fun - even the flood clean-up.  It's really shown how well our work team comes together and gets stuff done.

October goals:

1.  Update the MKAL project page with final pictures.  At the very least, take the final pictures.

2.  Cold sheep!!!  We got this!

3.  Finish something, anything, even if it's not a knitting or crochet project.

4.  Make The Morpher.

I did think about the MKAL pictures and thought to myself, "You should get those pictures, eh?" but I was driving at the time and the thought was filed safely away in that back room in my mind long before I was home.  Ah, well, maybe this month.  (Yeah, right.)

Okay, October wasn't bad.  Still successfully cold-sheeping, and I even finished a project from the summer!  The hat that my mom asked for.  The hat that I told her I'd finished and was ready for her.  That she said, "Oh, for me?  Why?"  And now I know why my memory's crap.

The flood clean-up at work drags on, but we continue to chip away at it and we've got our customer service area back up and (mostly) running.  We adapt.  We are flexible.  We will get through this.

November goals:

1.  Create a reminder to take pictures of the MKAL project.

2.  Maybe take those pictures?

3.  No yarn buying!

4.  Finish the crochet project (or get to a point where the yarn is used up and now Walter has to decide if it's big enough).

End of September Update

 WIPs (new ones are bolded)

Ten Stitch Blanket, Caron Cakes (started 2019)

Bright Stripes Throw, Caron Anniversary Cakes (started September 5, 2024)

Cable Car Coat, Bernat Chunky Solids (Bulky) (started February 6, 2025)

Mini Mania Scarf II, leftover fingering-weight yarns (started February 18, 2025)

Winter Ribbed Scarf II, Mary Maxim Glimmer (not my yarn, started March 30, 2025)

Musselburgh, Hedgehog Fibres (started August 17, 2025)

Mindless on the Train, Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport Multi (started August 26, 2025)

Fingerless Gloves "Musica", Laine Fav Socks (started August 28, 2025)

Compass, Lion Brand Mandala Sparkle (started September 7, 2025)

Concert Hat, Mainstays 100% Acrylic Aran (started September 19, 2025)

Hibernating

Dancing Bees MKAL, Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace (started 2015 - oops)

End of month yarn stats:  50 entries, 77 skeins, 23046.60 metres, 8141 grams.

Too fast, August, too fast.  We arrived home last night after a day of travelling by train.  I miss Montreal, but most of my regret is due to the rain that prevented me from walking around and taking pictures of the architecture.  I'll gather some of the pictures I did take and do another post for the trip.

I didn't buy yarn!  That might have been due partially to the rain, but also due to timing.  I didn't want to drag the others over to a store to look around and be bored.  Maybe next time.

The MKAL is over and I still have to take glamour shots of the finished product, but it was lovely!  I enjoyed every clue.

September goals:

1.  Finish the gloves that were started on the trip.

2.  Continue to cold-sheep.

3.  Update the MKAL project with final pictures.

I did nothing!  Absolutely nothing!  At least, from my goals (except the cold sheeping - I did that, unwillingly).

I haven't touched the projects from the Montreal trip, I haven't updated the MKAL project page with final pictures, and I certainly didn't share any pictures from the trip.  I totally started two new projects (one specifically for a concert and one for Walter).  I've been working at the Mini Mania scarf and that's gotten some of the fingering-weight yarn ends out of the stash.

We had a flood at work (water main break) and that's been quite the headache, since regular operations still have to proceed even during clean-up.  We also had a trade show to attend (that was this last Monday to Thursday), so prep for that had to continue as well.  It's been chaotic and fun - even the flood clean-up.  It's really shown how well our work team comes together and gets stuff done.

October goals:

1.  Update the MKAL project page with final pictures.  At the very least, take the final pictures.

2.  Cold sheep!!!  We got this!

3.  Finish something, anything, even if it's not a knitting or crochet project.

4.  Make The Morpher.

End of August Update

WIPs (new ones are bolded)

Ten Stitch Blanket, Caron Cakes (started 2019)

Bright Stripes Throw, Caron Anniversary Cakes (started September 5, 2024)

Cable Car Coat, Bernat Chunky Solids (Bulky) (started February 6, 2025)

Mini Mania Scarf II, leftover fingering-weight yarns (started February 18, 2025)

Winter Ribbed Scarf II, Mary Maxim Glimmer (not my yarn, started March 30, 2025)

Forest Walk MKAL, various sock yarns (started June 27, 2025)

His Hugo, Mainstays 100% Acrylic (started July 1, 2025)

Musselburgh, Hedgehog Fibres (started August 17, 2025)

Mindless on the Train, Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport Multi (started August 26, 2025)

Fingerless Gloves "Musica", Laine Fav Socks (started August 28, 2025)

Hibernating

Dancing Bees MKAL, Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace (started 2015 - oops)

End of month yarn stats:  53 entries, 78 skeins, 23281.80 metres, 8297 grams.

Ah, July.  What were you, three days long?

Seriously, though, that was a quick month.  I guess I kept busy.

I hit all of my goals this month (if we can ignore the lack of finished pictures for Wrapid, that is).  I've been keeping up with the clues (we're on clue six as of today!) and I haven't even thought about the languishing WIPs!  And I didn't buy yarn.

I've been working on Walter's poncho all month (when not doing MKAL clues) and it's almost done - less than twenty looooooong rounds to go.  I think I'll have to start the next mobile knitting project this weekend, as the poncho is definitely beyond that!

August goals:

1.  Finish the poncho and the MKAL.

2.  Start a packing list for the Montreal trip at the end of the month.

3.  Don't buy yarn unless it's in Montreal.

4.  Survive August.

Too fast, August, too fast.  We arrived home last night after a day of travelling by train.  I miss Montreal, but most of my regret is due to the rain that prevented me from walking around and taking pictures of the architecture.  I'll gather some of the pictures I did take and do another post for the trip.

I didn't buy yarn!  That might have been due partially to the rain, but also due to timing.  I didn't want to drag the others over to a store to look around and be bored.  Maybe next time.

The MKAL is over and I still have to take glamour shots of the finished product, but it was lovely!  I enjoyed every clue.

September goals:

1.  Finish the gloves that were started on the trip.

2.  Continue to cold-sheep.

3.  Update the MKAL project with final pictures.

End of July Update

 WIPs (new ones are bolded)

Ten Stitch Blanket, Caron Cakes (started 2019)

Walter's Blanket, Lion Brand Mandala Sparkle (started July 16, 2024) (may frog and make granny square cardigan instead for him)

Bright Stripes Throw, Caron Anniversary Cakes (started September 5, 2024)

Cable Car Coat, Bernat Chunky Solids (Bulky) (started February 6, 2025)

Mini Mania Scarf II, leftover fingering-weight yarns (started February 18, 2025)

Winter Ribbed Scarf II, Mary Maxim Glimmer (not my yarn, started March 30, 2025)

Wrapid, Universal Yarn Wool Pop (started June 1, 2025)

Forest Walk MKAL, various sock yarns (started June 27, 2025)

His Hugo, Mainstays 100% Acrylic (started July 1, 2025)

Hibernating

Dancing Bees MKAL, Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace (started 2015 - oops)

End of month yarn stats:  53 entries, 84 skeins, 24823.80 metres, 8795 grams.

I survived June!  It helped that June felt like it was four days long.

I bought yarn several times this month.  I'm doing a mystery knit-along and I bought three (shoulda been two) skeins of sock yarn that I found out afterward wouldn't work with the design.  It should have been two skeins, since I had one in my stash already, but I'd pulled out that colourway as well to compare with the other two and forgot to put it back on the shelf.  And now I'm not even using them!

I also bought yarn for a poncho that my son really wants (he likes coming up with stuff for me to knit for him).  Then, I found three skeins of Noro Silk Garden at Value Village for $4 each, and then I bought another ball of the Glimmer I'm using from Walter's stash for a scarf.

I focused on the Wrapid cardigan for most of June, and it's almost finished.

July goals:

1.  Finish Wrapid.

2.  Try not to buy yarn?  Maybe?

3.  Keep up with the clues each week for the MKAL.

4.  Avoid any work on any of the languishing WIPs currently laying around the apartment.  (This one should be easy.)

Ah, July.  What were you, three days long?

Seriously, though, that was a quick month.  I guess I kept busy.

I hit all of my goals this month (if we can ignore the lack of finished pictures for Wrapid, that is).  I've been keeping up with the clues (we're on clue six as of today!) and I haven't even thought about the languishing WIPs!  And I didn't buy yarn.

I've been working on Walter's poncho all month (when not doing MKAL clues) and it's almost done - less than twenty looooooong rounds to go.  I think I'll have to start the next mobile knitting project this weekend, as the poncho is definitely beyond that!

August goals:

1.  Finish the poncho and the MKAL.

2.  Start a packing list for the Montreal trip at the end of the month.

3.  Don't buy yarn unless it's in Montreal.

4.  Survive August.

End of June Update

WIPs (new ones are bolded)

Ten Stitch Blanket, Caron Cakes (started 2019)

Walter's Blanket, Lion Brand Mandala Sparkle (started July 16, 2024) (may frog and make granny square cardigan instead for him)

Bright Stripes Throw, Caron Anniversary Cakes (started September 5, 2024)

Cable Car Coat, Bernat Chunky Solids (Bulky) (started February 6, 2025)

Mini Mania Scarf II, leftover fingering-weight yarns (started February 18, 2025)

Winter Ribbed Scarf II, Mary Maxim Glimmer (not my yarn, started March 30, 2025)

Wrapid, Universal Yarn Wool Pop (started June 1, 2025)

Forest Walk MKAL, various sock yarns (started June 27, 2025)

Garter Scarf (Again), Noro Kureyon

Hibernating

Dancing Bees MKAL, Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace (started 2015 - oops)

End of month yarn stats:  53 entries, 86 skeins, 25449.60 metres, 8945 grams.

May felt more productive, and I suspect that some of it is due to the medication I've started.  I finished the test knit before the due date and it's beautiful!

I did buy yarn, but it was a special one.  I was at Mary Maxim on Victoria Day (I know, what do I expect going to a yarn store?) and I saw a discontinued colourway in Lion Brand Mandala - Hudson's Bay!  I figured this was an acceptable exception to my cold sheeping.

The blanket is done! It's currently drying out from its bath and I'll do a final steam block on it, then off to its recipient!

June goals:

1.  Work on the Cable Car Coat a few nights this month.

2.  No more yarn!

3.  Start something new (I've got something in mind).

4.  Survive June.

I survived June!  It helped that June felt like it was four days long.

I bought yarn several times this month.  I'm doing a mystery knit-along and I bought three (shoulda been two) skeins of sock yarn that I found out afterward wouldn't work with the design.  It should have been two skeins, since I had one in my stash already, but I'd pulled out that colourway as well to compare with the other two and forgot to put it back on the shelf.  And now I'm not even using them!

I also bought yarn for a poncho that my son really wants (he likes coming up with stuff for me to knit for him).  Then, I found three skeins of Noro Silk Garden at Value Village for $4 each, and then I bought another ball of the Glimmer I'm using from Walter's stash for a scarf.

I focused on the Wrapid cardigan for most of June, and it's almost finished.

July goals:

1.  Finish Wrapid.

2.  Try not to buy yarn?  Maybe?

3.  Keep up with the clues each week for the MKAL.

4.  Avoid any work on any of the languishing WIPs currently laying around the apartment.  (This one should be easy.)

An Eventful Saturday

On Saturday, we visited the Steam Museum for an iron pour event.  Here are some pictures!

They even have a mini train people can ride on.  Afterwards, I got some close-ups of friends.

End of May Update

 WIPs (new ones are bolded)

Ten Stitch Blanket, Caron Cakes (started 2019)

Walter's Blanket, Lion Brand Mandala Sparkle (started July 16, 2024)

Bright Stripes Throw, Caron Anniversary Cakes (started September 5, 2024)

Cable Car Coat, Bernat Chunky Solids (Bulky) (started February 6, 2025)

Mini Mania Scarf II, leftover fingering-weight yarns (started February 18, 2025)

Mitred Square Blanket, Paton's Canadiana (started March 2, 2025, finished May 31, 2025)

5K Blanket, Mary Maxim Glimmer (not my yarn, started March 30, 2025)

Rhubarb Custard Pi Test, Crystal Palace Yarns Lace (started April 12, 2025, finished May 19, 2025)

Hibernating

Dancing Bees MKAL, Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace (started 2015 - oops)

End of month yarn stats:  52 entries, 82 skeins, 24423.60 metres, 8201 grams.

Well, May snuck up on me.  I've been in a weird slump for the last week, because my wrist has been acting up and Minecraft has been very alluring.  I started a test knit and I'm over half-way done.  I didn't buy any yarn!  Or fibre!  But I haven't seamed together the blanket squares (only five are together).

May goals:

1.  Finish test knit.

2.  Seam the blanket squares together in strips of 8.

3.  Keep not buying yarn.

4.  Maybe do some spinning.

May felt more productive, and I suspect that some of it is due to the medication I've started.  I finished the test knit before the due date and it's beautiful!

I did buy yarn, but it was a special one.  I was at Mary Maxim on Victoria Day (I know, what do I expect going to a yarn store?) and I saw a discontinued colourway in Lion Brand Mandala - Hudson's Bay!  I figured this was an acceptable exception to my cold sheeping.

The blanket is done! It's currently drying out from its bath and I'll do a final steam block on it, then off to its recipient!

June goals:

1.  Work on the Cable Car Coat a few nights this month.

2.  No more yarn!

3.  Start something new (I've got something in mind).

4.  Survive June.