Knitting

Back in January 2013, I wrote a post talking about my "Unfinished Knits of Years Past" (which you can read here). At that time I had 11 UFO's on the list. Today there are 14, as witnessed here in a screenshot of my Ravelry (angelny29) project list:

So are any of the original 11 still on this list? Yes, 11 to be exact. I know.

During the past year and a half, there have been some finished projects. I completed four Honey Cowls and one pair of vanilla socks. All were Christmas gifts.

Honey Cowl #1 - For my niece Ashley.

Honey Cowl #2 - For my sister MB.

Honey Cowl #3 - For my niece Kaitlin.

Honey Cowl #4 - For my sister Kathy.

Vanilla Socks - For my nephew Jeremy.



Back in the day (yes, I talk like it was 20 years ago instead of just six or seven) I was a knitting machine. In 2007, I had 21 FO's. In 2008, there were 47 FO's (my all time high). I was still going strong in 2009 with 23 FO's. Then it went drastically downhill from there for one reason or another.

While I am not necessarily looking to rock that many FO's in a year anymore, I am wanting to complete more projects than I have during the past couple of years.

So here I am setting some goals. I work well with goals. Goals help keep me going and motivated. I love being able to tick the completed section of each goal one by one. I'm a goal junkie.

Goal #1 and #2: Finish "Deborah's Honey Cowl" and "Iced Eucalyptus Beret" pronto. Both of these items are mere inches from being finished and sadly could of been done during the Polar Vortex so I could of enjoyed them.

Goal #3: "Bacon Socks" - I seriously need to finish sock number two so I can have the leftover yarn for my "Sock Yarn Blankie".

Goal #4: The "Boneyard Shawl" will be the next item to complete. I know it is also almost at the completion point. I believe I stopped because I was trying to figure out how many more repeats I could do and still have enough yarn left for bind off.

Goal #5: "Some Cloudy Day" legwarmers - One legwarmer complete, the other halfway done. Enough said.

Ongoing Goal: Complete at least 5-6 squares on my "Sock Yarn Blankie" each week. I have been working on this blanket since 2010 and know that this is a long term project. I would really like to finish it before I am in my rocking chair so hopefully this will help put a dent in it.

For right now, these are my top knitting goals. Once I check some of these off the list, I will update and revise accordingly.

To hold myself accountable, because really I want to finish so I can start new, I have decided I will dedicate at least one post a week to knitting. I honestly miss talking about and sharing my knitting. So I am going to change things up and get a little something of what started this blog in 2007 back. Stay tuned!

Three Things Thursday

This is exactly how I feel today:

The longest week ever!

To help get me over this hump of feeling like this week won't end, I thought I would share three random things from my week. Fun, hunh?

Random Thing #1:

I started knitting Honey Cowl #5 and as of earlier this week, I made it through 1 skein of yarn and am currently working with number 2. I will not let these Christmas gifts get the best of me! Slogging along and hope to have it finished real soon.

Random Thing #2:

I am a big fan of wearing compression socks. My favorite ones are from Pro Compression. I wear them running and I wear them for recovery. Usually after a long run I will wear a pair for a couple of hours to assist with recovery. I forgot to put them on Sunday and by Tuesday mornings run of 5 miles, my little leggies were aching. Soooooo, I wore them to work and by 4:45 P.M. you can see they got a little tight around the upper calf area. This was when I remembered I can only wear them for a couple hours, unlike some people I know, Mr. B. Duh!

Random Thing #3:

I love it when my local Mermaid place by my office upgrades my Venti Unsweetened Green Ice Tea to a Trenta in the mornings. Makes me feel special!

That's all I got for ya this Thursday!

So tell me 1, or 3, random things about your week?