Well that’s us now 3/4 of the way through the YOP year.  With my creative mojo on a break this means I’ll have a lot of things carried forward, but I have done a lot.  At the bottom is a snapshot of my list and what I have achieved so far.

Knitting

 

Spinning

Here’s what happened when I tried to remove some warp threads!  3 hours it took to untangle!  I ended up having to remove them all.  This was on Friday, when I also made a batch of totally delicious sultana cookies….I ate 9!!!!  9!!!! Needless to say I didn’t need any dinner.  (I have provided the link, but will deny any responsibility for anyone else’s weight gain if you try this recipe. 😋)
Other News

Well I have tried to keep busy doing things around the house.  I washed the windows, polished the door brass!, tidied the greenhouse (being a big brave girl with all the spiders in there), planted some vegetable seeds, weeded my 6 raised borders and fruit bed.  I am a bit short on seed compost, so some seeds I’ll need to just plant outside in about 4-6 weeks when risk of frost has hopefully passed.  I also don’t have any courgette (zucchini) seeds left.  I had said to myself I wasn’t going to order more online things, to help protect our post people, but I have ordered a pack of courgette and tenderstem broccoli seeds, but that’s it now for mail ordering. which is a shame.  Most of my seeds are past their best before date, but we’ll see what grows.  Way back when….this blog was about vegetable gardening!

In the UK the majority of shops have all closed now, so that includes garden centres.  We are allowed one visit to a shop per day for essential items, but as the numbers of infected people in the Highlands is growing and us not knowing exactly where those cases were, we really are just managing on what we have as much as possible.  I went to the pet shop, where you call them from the car, pay over the phone and then they bring the bag of food out and then you can get out of the car to collect it.  I did also go to the chemist to pick up some prescriptions, which was only allowing 2 customers in at a time and had lines on the floor to ensure proper spacing.  Our supermarket has a cleaning station for handles, has markers on the floor and a limited amount allowed in at one time. It really is a different world we are living in at the moment.  The things I’ve taken for granted my whole life, really makes you appreciate the little things!

Third quarter snapshot of YOP list.

Dyeing

• Dye items from last year’s YOP list I didn’t get to
• Dye commercial sock yarn in:
  • Self Striping
  • Christmas Colourway ✅ week 15
  • Speckled
• Dye fibres in my ‘to dye’ box:
  • Rambouillet ✅ week 15
  • Perendale ✅ week 15
  • Cheviot ✅ week 15
  • Dye homespun sock weight yarn for Papillon shawl

Felting

• Make sister’s 4 lampshades ✅ finished week 4
• Make a scarf for my dad’s 80th. ✅ week 10
• Autumn wreath ✅ week 11
• Felt the knitted bag made with Lanark wool ✅ week 28
• Needle felted Ylva ✳️
• Pictures and products to sell (Update – shop I was selling from closed Week 25)
  • Scarves ✅ multiple weeks
  • Lampshade(s) ✅ weeks 6, 15, 34
  • 🆕 Fairies  ✅ week 12
  • Soaps
  • Landscapes ✳️ None specific highland landscapes done, still to try an area like- Ben Wyvis, Glen Affric, Loch Morlich, Rosemarkie
  • Christmas stocking
  • Wreaths – Christmas etc.
• 2nd nuno felted Jacket!
• 3rd Hat
• Picture of Boo and Dice
• Picture of Ylva
• Finish making lampshades for all remaining pendant lights and lamps
  • downstairs loo ✅ week 24
  • spare room ✅ (an unsold sheep one from the shop)
  • study
  • large lamp

Knitting 

Jumpers/cardigans

• Such a Winter’s Day by Heidi Kirrmaier (yarn New Lanark Wool) ✅ (Started previous YOP year finished week 21)
• 🆕 Turtle Dove by Espace Tricot (yarn West Yorkshire Spinners Re:treat). ✅ Started week 30 finished week 32
• Fine Sand by Heidi Kirrmaier (yarn BaaRamEwe Goathland)
• Inside Story by Heidi Kirrmaier (yarn WYS The Croft)
• Tailfeather by Heidi Kirrmaier (yarn Third Vault Yarns Bamboo/Linen)
• Jumper using North Ronaldsay (pattern TBC, possibly Traveller’s End)
• Nordsee Jacket by Ailbíona Mclochlainn (yarn West Yorkshire Spinners Re:treat). Pattern not published yet so used yarn for Turtle Dove.

Shawls

• Easy Goes It by Finicky Creations (yarn hand-spun camel & silk) ✅ Started previous YOP year/finished week 1.
• Nurmilintu by Heidi Alander (yarn Coastal Colours silk & yak 4ply) ✅ Started week 7/finished week 10 – detailed post
• Cabriolet brioche scarf by Carolyn Bloom (yarn Cookston Crafts in Crathie (alpaca/merino/nylon) & Emerald (merino/silk/yak)) ✳️ Started week 34
• All About That Brioche by Lucy Hannes (yarn Cookston Crafts yarn in Granite (merino/nylon) and Inverewe (merino/silk/yak) colours
• Butterfly / Papillon shawl (yarn homespun…which also means achieving fingering weight homespun yarn!

Socks

• Hermione’s Everyday Socks (HES) by Erica Lueder (yarn Regia Design Myth) ✅ week 5 (then made longer week 8!)
• 🆕 Shortie pairs of socks using left over sock yarns.  ✅ Started week 6/finished week 8.
• 3 pairs of HES using my own hand dyed yarn  1️⃣✅Christmas socks Started week 16/finished week 26
• 🆕 2 more pairs of socks. 1️⃣✳️ HES in Regia City Lights, 2️⃣ toe up pair,
• Pair of socks with homespun yarn

Accessories

• Go diagonal scarf (yarn Christmas 2018 advent) ✅ Started & finished week 7
• 🆕 Interlude hat (homespun/homedyed Shetland yarn) ✅ week 13  🐸 frogged week 34
• 🆕 Perky little hat (yarn Mothy & the Squid) ✅ week 17 although I forgot to post about it until week 33
• 🆕 Rasta Ready fingerless mittens ✅ week 17 although I forgot to post about it until week 33
• 🆕 Antler Toque (WYS Croft Aran) ✅ week 25
• 🆕 Super Simple Bulky Brioche (cowl not cross over as yarn shortage) ✅ Made in 1 day week 32
• 🆕 2×2 hat for Allistar using WYS Croft Aran ✅ week 29 but forgot to post about it until week 33
• 🆕 2×2 hat for me using gifted purple yarn from Alissa at Headknits blog ✅ week 35
• Brioche Knots by Katrin Schubert (yarn New Lanark DK blueberry and clematis colour)
• Easy Mittens with Thrums  (yarn homespun)
• Feather and Fan scarf (yarn home dyed merino/tussah silk lace weight)
• Colourwork mittens (yarn Jamieson’s Shetland leftovers)
• 🆕 Evil genius gloves (yarn Mothy & the Squid)

Other/household

• 🆕 Make variety of dishcloths and wash cloths (yarn cotton) ✅ week 12
• Make 24 Smitten Mittens with homespun to make either decorations or advent ✅ (Started previous YOP year/finished week 23)
• Knit a bag (yarn Lanark Aran wool) ✅ week 28
• Weightless shopping bag ✅ week 29
• Autumn leaves for an autumn wreath

Techniques to learn/master

• Portuguese knitting (class booked Sept 7th) ✅
• Learn/Master Brioche  ✅ Single colour brioche cowl made week 32, ✅ two colour Cabriolet started week 34
• Learn Double Knitting
• Learn Intarsia
• Master Fair Isle/Colourwork
• Improve continental knitting
• Learn Matrix knitting (hopefully easier than understanding the movie trilogy!)

Sewing

• Make a huge project bag for jumpers. ✅ week 13
• Sew proper hanger to silk banner
• Make a costume for Belladrum and Jocktoberfest festivals

Spinning

• Take part in Tour de Fleece, team ‘Corner of Knit & Tea’ ✅ (missed some days)
• Take part in BritSpin, team ‘More enthusiasm than skill’ ✅ week 15
• Spin some sock yarn (BFL & Sea Cell) ✳️ (Started previous YOP year)
• Spin some chunky yarn for thrummed mittens
• 🆕 Spin John Arbon Harvest Hues fibre to make a sweater (Welford Purls MAL)
• Spin sufficient homespun fingering weight yarn in various colours to make a papillon shawl!
• Spin some Christmas themed yarns for smitten mittens. I went with the blue, purple and green colours
• Spin some chunky yarn for Nordsee jacket

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