I’d usually do my 3rd quarterly update week 39, but as this is a 53 week YOP year I’ve moved it to this week. You’ll find the snapshot at the bottom of this post, but it’s mostly for my records.

Felting

I needle felted 4 more baubles and dropped those at the Alchemist Gallery on Wednesday. (The photos are a little washed out it seems.)

I’ve also made a wreath too. I’ll need to check if they are interested in selling that. It’s a while since I made one but I have sold some other similar ones a few years ago.

Knitting

Other/household

I finished my Gansey Afghan by Lena Skaverson. There’s a separate FO post with the details.  I am really happy with it.

Weaving

Rigid heddle loom

I’ve started a sample of the Diamond Stripe towel pattern but using some West Yorkshire Spinners Exquisite Lace yarn (80% Falkland merino/20% silk).  I’m using two 12.5 dpi heddles on my 10″ loom and so far it seems to be going well.  It’s only a small amount as I wanted to check it was going to be okay, it may be enough to make a headband.

I’ve made a few tea towels using this pattern using 8/2 cotton but thought a shawl in this pattern would be nice, but wasn’t sure enough to warp my 32″ loom.  I only have 1 skein of each colour so it won’t be huge when I make the shawl/scarf.

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Other News

I seem to have eaten a lot this week…I’ll be glad when Easter is over and hot cross buns and chocolate eggs are no longer being sold..I have no willpower with them. 

When I haven’t been eating I’ve made a small start on preparing the garden for vegetable planting.  I discovered quite a few potatoes that I hadn’t dug up.  I’ll be planting some seeds this coming week.

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Now for the snapshot of my progress by the end of Q3 of my YOP year. A lot of items were moved to on hold because when I wrote the list I wasn’t working and then worked for 7 months which took a lot of my crafting time. The on hold items are indicated with a Pause button icon ⏸️

Acquisitions/Collection Curation

• ↪️ NO new superwash knitting yarns! 
  Q2 I bought a gnome kit in superwash 4 ply, not realising the same dyer had kits in non-superwash, which is frustrating. But it is only 80g/322m.
• ↪️ Contain my stash and have no overflow containers or bags!!

Crochet

• ✅ Bowl and plant pot cover kit. Started week 5, finished week 6.

Dyeing

• ↪️ Dye more locks for fairies’ hair
• ‼️ Dye a gradient in fibre to then spin to make the Alaska hat! I have an Alaska hat with other yarn now.
• ⏸️ Dye fibre for lampshades as and when required (rather than buying) On hold – I have so much fibre from a friend and in my stash I won’t need more until YOP14.
• ⏸️ Dye undyed fibre in stash to use for future spinning project. On hold

Felting

• ↪️✳️ Needle felted Ylva (Started YOP9!)
• ↪️✳️ Make a handbag using the felting ball (Started YOP11 week 24 fibres weighed and test felt)
• Pictures and products to sell/gift:
  • ✳️ Fairies – Oct x 1, Dec x 9
  • ✳️ Tomte – Oct x 2, Dec x 4
  • ✳️ Lampshades 20cm – Jan x 2, Mar x 6
  • Lampshades 25cm –
  • Lampshades 35cm –
  • Lampshades 40cm –
  • ✳️ Baubles – Mar x 6
  • Wreaths – Mar x 1
• Waste paper bin for living room
• Sewing bin for sunroom
• ↪️✳️⏸️ Needle felted Highland Cow (Started YOP9!) On hold
• ↪️⏸️ Make plant pot covers On hold

Fibre Prep

✅ If I haven’t washed these by end of 2023 then compost them or use as mulch over winter. 1st March 2024 the left overs were moved into one of my compost bins.

• ↪️ ‼️Finish washing BFL/Shetland X (from Katharine) started washing and using it YOP 9.
• ↪️ ‼️Finish washing Shetland X (from Serena) started washing YOP11 week 1

Knitting

Jumpers/cardigans

• Knit 3 garments, ideas below:
  • ✅ Selfish Pullover by Sweater Freak in New Lanark chunky yarn in “Denim/Sky”. Started week 1, finished week 5. Neck adjusted week 20.
  • ↪️✅ Fern & Feather by Jennifer Steingass in hand-dyed Shetland Aran New Lanark Aran in “Blueberry/Verona”. Started week 13, finished week 20.
  • 🐸 Turtle Dove II by Espace Tricot using some Shetland Aran weight I dyed started week 26. Frogged week 31, I didn’t like the drape…or lack of drape.
  • ✳ Another garment using yarn in stash. Possibly another Jennifer Steingass pattern Avena using existing greens in stash or Goldenfern with Jamieson’s of Shetland. Started Avena week 35 using New Lanark Aran in Verona and Natural colour.
  • Quick Sand by Heidi Kirrmaier in Drops linen/cotton.

Shawls

• ↪️ A summer weight shawl (maybe Estuary by Tin Can Knits)
• ⏸️ Shawl using Rowan DK merino/alpaca yarn. (Possibly a 2nd Void) On hold, but may use yarn for a cardigan instead.

Socks

• Knit more pairs of these socks with stashed yarn:
  • Rose City Rollers (RCR) by Mara Catherine Bryner.
    • 1️⃣✅ using self striping I dyed YOP11 week 22. Started and finished week 7.
  • Deb’s Super Simple DK Socks 2️⃣✅ using Ripples Crafts Doubly Reliable sock yarn in “Was that a Kingfisher?”. Started week 24 and finished week 25.
  • Hermione’s Everyday Socks by Erica Lauder
    • 3️⃣✳️ using WYS Signature 4 ply in “Hidden Gem”. Started week 32.
  • ‼️ Try a toe up pattern (possibly Toe Up Socks With a Difference by Wendy D Johnson) Happy just doing cuff down socks. ‼️
  • Try a new DK pattern

Accessories

• Knit using existing stashed yarn or handspun only:
  • ✅ Alaska hat in handspun yarn from gradient I will dye. Colour-work hat using Isager Yarn Jensen leftovers “26/101”. I decided to do the Alaska hat with this yarn so combined 2 list items into 1. Started week 9, finished week 10.
  • Make 2nd Mostly Warmness cowl and cuff set using Ripples Crafts Suilven (merino/yak/silk) yarn in “Oh My!”.
    • ✅ Cowl started week 10, finished week 12.
    • 🐸 Mittens started week 13, frogged week 19 (too tight).
  • ✅ Fisherman’s rib cowl by Merce Mitchell, in Rowan Brushed Fleece yarn in “Nook”. Started week 15, finished week 16.
  • 🆕️✅ Bisbis Beret by Sari Nordlund, in CaMaRose Midnatssol lace in “Bordeaux” and John Arbon Yarnadellic sport in “Canto De Ossanha”. Started and finished week 21.
  • 🆕✅ Carmel Beanie by Aspen Leaf Knits, in Bluebell Yarns Texel chunky in “Berry Splash/Black Grape”. Started week 30 and finished week 31.
  • 🆕✅ Just Wiggle It cowl by Sarah Ashcroft in handspun merino/alpaca blend. Started and finished week 34.
  • 🆕✅ Bisbis Beret by Sari Nordlund in handspun merino/alpaca. Started and finished week 34,
  • ✳️ Pinwheel Mittens by Ella Austin using kit from Loop London containing Isager Highland lace yarn in “Sand/Denim”. Started week 22.
  • ↪️ A colour-work project using Black Isle yarns Gotland wool
  • The Shift by Andrea Mowry, make a second version in different colours of handspun….maybe using baby camel and silk advent!
  • Make husband something with green New Lanark yarn.
  • ⏸️ Shrug & More by Martina Behm in existing stash or handspun. On hold

Other/household

• ↪️✅ Habitation Throw by Helen Stewart using scrap 4 ply. Started YOP 10 week 45, finished week 12
• 🆕️✅ Snow Matter What (Mystery Gnome KAL) by Sarah Schira, using Lamington Lass Highland Peruvian and British BFL 4 ply yarns. Started week 23, finished week 26.
• 🆕️✅ All Work, Gnome Play by Sarah Schira. Started week 36, finished week 37.
• 🆕✅ Gansey Afghan by Lena Skvagerson using Isle of Auskerry Aran yarn (North Ronaldsay wool) in “Seal/Slate”. Started week 28, finished week 40.
• ↪️✳️ Dish cloths. 1️⃣ week 10.
• ⏸️ Knit breed samples into squares. On hold

Painting & Drawing

• Look for a painting group to join and if I don’t or don’t enjoy it declutter painting equipment.
• ↪️ Do a new watercolour painting (carried forward from YOP 11 and then 12)
• ↪️ Do a new pastel drawing (carried forward from YOP 12)

Sewing

• ↪️ Make trousers with fabric in stash
• Sew something with handwoven material
• ↪️ ⏸️ Make play suit/jumpsuit with fabric in stash On hold

Spinning

• ✅ Take part in Tour de Fleece. I didn’t do as much as planned, but I did spin during the calls and when we met up for a team lunch.
• ✅ Spin alpaca/merino fibre colour sets. Started week 21 on Ashford Traveller, finished week 26.
• ✅ Spin Shetland fibre I dyed purple. Started week 22 on Nano 2, finished on Traditional week 28.
• 🆕✅ Nature’s Cuddle (merino, llama, yak, silk) I dyed. Started on Traveller week 34, finished on Traditional week 35.
• 🆕✅ John Arbon Devonia in Nightshade (50% Exmoor Blueface, 30% BFL, 20% Wensleydale). Started on Traveller week 34, finished on Traditional week 35.
• 🆕‼️World of Wool Candytuft blend (37.5% merino, 25% flax, 25% tussah silk, 12.5% muga silk). Started on Traveller week 35. It is painful to spin and so I have abandoned this idea and will felt the fibre instead.
• ‼️ Spin yarn for Alaska hat I have an Alaska hat with other yarn.
• ↪️✳️ Finish spinning 25g breed project (Started YOP10)
• ↪️✳️ Spin 2021 baby camel and silk advent fibres (Started YOP 12 week 28) Ashford Traveller and Nano.

Weaving

Rigid heddle loom

• ✅ Make a woven project using handspun yarns. Scarf woven with handspun Rambouillet held together with handspun yak/silk. Started and finished week 18.
• ↪️✳️ Make a patterned shawl with WYS Exquisite merino/silk yarn. Started diamond stripe week 40.
• Make a selection of hand/dish towels
• Weave with new cotton from Sara
• ⏸️ Midnight Shawl by Kelly Casanova On hold

Inkle loom

• Make some inkle bands from the book my sister gave me
  • ↪️✅ Monk’s belt sample (started YOP 12 week 22 finished week 14)
• ↪️ Make a Minion inkle tablet weaving band
• ↪️⏸️ Try another tablet card weaving pattern. On hold

Tapestry

• ❓Try a new tapestry weaving using wool pack from Kincraig I’m not sure if this is abandoned or just on hold.

This is a Year of Projects post. Officially the Group is in its 13th year, but this is my 6th year participating. If you would like to find more about the Year of Projects Group on Ravelry, as you’d be very welcome to join us. (There are 53 Sundays this YOP year, it happens sometimes!).

Year 13 list.

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