WIPs (new ones are bolded)
Ten Stitch Blanket, Caron Cakes (started 2019)
Mini Mania Scarf II, leftover fingering-weight yarns (started February 18, 2025)
Cecilia Cowl, Lang Yarns Alpaca Soxx 4 ply Easywash (started April 25, 2026)
Miami Vice, Caron Cloud Cakes Perfect Phasing (started May 10, 2026)
Lace Sampler Baby Blanket, Sirdar Snuggly DK (started June 2, 2026)
Gingerbread Blanket, Caron Anniversary Cakes (started June 14, 2026)
Warrior Goddess MKAL, Briggs & Little Sport 1 Ply (started July 3, 2026)
Hibernating
Dancing Bees MKAL, Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace (started 2015)
Cable Car Coat, Bernat Chunky Solids (Bulky) (started February 6, 2025)
Fingerless Gloves "Musica", Laine Fav Socks (started August 28, 2025)
End of month yarn stats: 59 entries, 97 skeins, 28308.80 metres, 11029 grams.
June. How fun, how fleeting! It's already over. I started two new projects (one required frogging an older WIP). The Gingerbread blanket was stalled for a week while I untangled my mess. It was fine, but I got cocky and stopped carefully watching how the yarn was pulling off the already-in-use ball.
I started the baby blanket. It's literally 10 rows in. I'm not sure what happened there. Will I continue it? Will I frog it? Who knows!
I did hint at accepting yarn, and I had already accepted it when I wrote last month's update, but it's hard to add to stash as it wasn't labelled. So that means that the yarn stats are not true. I'm still working on identifying most of it. (It's not a lot, I promise! Not like the amount of yarn I purchased on Canada Day . . . .)
We went camping and it was glorious. I had so many mosquito bites. But I saw fireflies for the first time in 25 years and that was . . . words escape me.
In July, I'll be knitting the yearly MKAL - Warrior Goddess!
July goals:
1. Enter all yarn into stash (for a reality check).
2. Finish two projects (namely, the Gingerbread blanket and the Not So Colourful blanket).
3. Don't buy any more yarn. Please. We're running out of space.
4. Work on the MKAL! That's right, it's that time of year again!
Well, here we are, at the (sort of) beginning of August! Moving immediately away from the lateness of this entry and into July's goals, I succeeded at all four this time! Mostly. I'll explain.
Goal one was to enter all of the yarn I'd collected lately, and I have - all except the unidentified ones. I'm still working on them.
Goal two was to finish two projects, and I did! Just not exactly both that were named. (Actually, I finished three because I used up the last of the ball for the fidget toys.)
Goal three? I got that one in the bag, as I'd already done the yarn purchasing on the first.
Goal four was to work on the MKAL and I've been hitting that one on the nose as well!
So for August, what's left? Three and a half weeks, a few appointments, no camping (that's at the beginning of September), and all of the fun end-of-summer signs, such as the CNE in Toronto, the Peach Festival in Winona, and super-tall corn that was knee-high a month ago. I wonder, have I been present enough to enjoy it?
August goals:
1. Finish the MKAL and the test knit (it's not on the list yet, but it was started solidly in August!!).
2. NO YARN.
3. Be present. Sit outside in the sun with my eyes closed and feel summer.
4. Finish the Gingerbread blanket.
