This is the Group’s 12th Year (YOP12), but my 5th Year. You’ll notice a lot of ↪️ symbols…these are items I’ve carried forward from an earlier YOP year. One of my main aims this year is to complete/achieve all those carried forward items!

Key:
↪️ carried over from a previous YOP year
✳️ started
✅ finished
🆕 added to list after week 1
⁉️ fell at a hurdle but back on track
🐸 frogged/abandoned

NB. There are links to the Ravelry pattern, yarn or project page.

Acquisitions/Stash Management

• ↪️No new superwash knitting yarns (My stash has enough to make socks for many years.) ⁉️ Q1 – I bought 2 skeins of sw DK BFL/Silk at Highland Meet the Makers and 1 skein of sw 4ply merino/silk to have a project to knit on in Wisconsin. Q2 – I bought a Zauberball in Copenhagen, but it’s for the Alaska hat I’d like to make.
• ↪️Contain my stash! (Limit stash to only what will fit in existing containers (2 x Kallax unit, rainbow drawers and weaving shelves) and have no overflow containers or bags, only exception to be hand processed Shetland X fleece.). ⁉️ By week 18 this was a big fail, I have easily another drawer I could fill with new yarn I bought from New Lanark and in Copenhagen oops!
• ↪️Buy yarn for a larger Havana only once I have made space for it! This is hopefully going to keep me motivated to use existing stash for everything else.

Crochet

• Havana blanket (once I have enough room in Kallax to store the yarn!)

Dyeing

• ↪️ Dye more locks for fairies’ hair
• Experiment with microwave dyeing

Felting

• ↪️ Needle felted Ylva ✳️ (Started YOP9!)
• ↪️ Needle felted Highland Cow ✳️ (Started YOP9!)
• ↪️ Make a handbag using the felting ball ✳️ (Started YOP11 week 24 fibres weighed and test felt)
• ↪️ Make plant pot covers
• Pictures and products to sell/gift/keep. ✳️
  • Fairies – August x 1 (gift), October x 9
  • Lampshades 20cm – November x 7
  • Lampshades 25cm –
  • Lampshades 35cm –
  • Lampshades 40cm – August x 1
  • Tomte – October x 2, November x 7
  • Baubles – November x 7
  • Wreaths –
  • Waste paper bin – August x 1

Fibre Prep

• ↪️ 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
• Practice combing wool fibre

Knitting

Jumpers/cardigans

• Knit 3 garments:
  • ↪️ Sunday Sweater by Petite Knits ✅ started YOP11 week 43, finished week 3, altered neck week 21.
  • ↪️ Such a Winter’s Day jumper #2 by Heidi Kirrmaier in New Lanark Aran Bramble ✅ started YOP11 week 42, finished week 18, lengthened arms week 21.
  • Turtle Dove II by Espace Tricot in my handdyed Shetland Aran yarn.

Shawls

• Celtic Myths Shawl by Asita Krebs in Baa Ram Ewe Dovestone DK 🐸 started week 1 and frogged week 21. I’m going to weave with the yarn instead.
• A summer weight shawl.
• Frog any sock yarn shawls I don’t wear ✅ frogged Lintilla and a Hitchhiker week 6

Socks

• ↪️ Knit at least one pair of socks with homespun yarn.
• Knit more pairs of these socks with stashed yarn (# indicates order they were started):
  • Rose City Rollers (RCR) by Mara Catherine Bryner.
  • Hermione’s Everyday Socks by Erica Lauder ✅2️⃣ adapted version using HoneyGold Acres merino/silk started week 11 finished week 13.
• Knit Sweet and Tartan socks by Tracie Millar ✅ 1️⃣ started week 8 and finished week 9. I used Ripples Crafts blue, Cookston Crafts Crathie (incl. some alpaca) and heels in my hand-dyed turquoise BFL/nylon.

Accessories

• Knit using existing stashed yarn or handspun only ❗️*oops I bought some new yarns:
  • 🆕️ March Hat by Meghan Babin using Juniper Moon Herriot alpaca yarn* ✅ started week 12, finished week 14.
  • 🆕 The Shift by Andrea Mowry using handspun, Border Leicester and Cochrane leftovers ✅ started week 7, finished week 20.
  • Alaska hat (if I find a non-superwash kit I like at Wisconsin Wool Festival). Update: I couldn’t find non-superwash so I am going to use a zauberball* and existing stash. ✳️ started week 21.
  • Design (for my own use only) a new pair of colourwork mitts using Hastings Mitts by Tracie Millar as a template and New Lanark DK yarn from Alissa.
  • A colour-work project using Black Isle yarns Gotland wool

Other/household

• ↪️ Habitation Throw by Helen Stewart using scrap 4 ply. ✳️ (started YOP 10 week 45)
• Dolores van Hoofen by Franklin Habit in Valley Yarns Aran ✳ started week 11
• Dolores Transatlantic Travel Ensemble by Fiona Ellis in Valley Yarns 4 ply and Tahki Yarns Donegal Tweed ✳️ started week 14
• Gansey Afghan by Lena Skvagerson using Isle of Auskerry/North Ronaldsay yarn
• Dish cloths as required.

Painting & Drawing

• ↪️ Do a new watercolour painting
• Do a new pastel drawing

Sewing

• 🆕 Juniper Bucket project bag ✅ week 16
• ↪️ Make a project using denim from old jeans
• Make trousers with fabric in stash
• Make play suit/jumpsuit with fabric in stash
• Make top (test version) with fabric in stash
• Make actual top with handwoven cotton fabric I make
• Make something else with handwoven wool fabric I make

Spinning

• ↪️ Baby camel and silk colour #4. (✅ started YOP11 week 14, finished YOP12 week 2)
• ↪ BFL/Shetland Parma violets (✅ started YOP11 week 52, finished YOP12 week 2)
• 🆕️ US Rambouillet 1️⃣✅ started week 13, finished week 15. 2️⃣✳️ started week 20.
• ↪️ Finish spinning John Arbon Harvest Hues fibre (✅ Started YOP9! Finished YOP12 week 21!!)
• ↪️ Finish spinning 25g breed project (✳️ Started YOP10)
• 🆕️ Merino/silk/flax ✳ started week 3
• Spin 2021 baby camel and silk advent fibres

Weaving

Rigid heddle loom

• Make a selection of wide hand/dish towels 1️⃣✅ started green hand towels week 2, finished week 3.
• ↪️ Make a woven project using handspun yarns
• ↪️ Make fabric to sew at least one garments.
• Midnight Shawl by Kelly Casanova

Inkle loom

• Make some inkle bands from the book my sister gave me for Christmas
• Make a Minion inkle tablet weaving band
• Try another tablet card weaving pattern.

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