A Year of Projects - July 27th 2014

This past week I was able to cast on my Stage Six socks.  They are toe up and double knit and are taking me forever to finish!!  Who am I kidding - I am am making very slow progress with these!!  I find DK to be very slow and tough on my hands.  I also find it difficult to get my tension nice and even...  This is all I managed to get done this week (not likely I will finish before the deadline of July 31st...):

I also think I may be suffering from sock knitting burnout.  I have knit a lot in the past several months and all of it has been in speed/time limit conditions.  I am thinking I am ready for a break!  SO I started my sock scrap yarn afghan!!  I am thinking I may be addicted to making these little mitered squares!!  I am also not doing this in any planned design.  I will randomly choose each color as I am ready to add a new square.  The only condition I will place is that I do not want to have two colors that are too close in color to be side-by-side.  Otherwise the more random the better!!

So far it measures about 11.5 inches on each long side.  I have also tucked in all the tails except for those showing.  I will need to do the tails on a regular, frequent basis so it is not too overwhelming later!  Here is where I go to in the past few days:

Over the next week I am hoping to continue to work on the scrapghan, get a bit more done on my Stage Six socks, and maybe start assembling the crochet squares.

Progress Summary:
Sock Madness 8:
1. Chill Thrill (round 6 socks)
2. Alexandrina (round 7 socks)
Tour de Sock
1. Dazzle Them From Behind (Stage 4)  DONE!!  Finished July 18th 2014 Link to finished project page
2. Arch-Nemesis (Stage 5) Started July 18th 2014
3. Double Flake Squirrel Socks (Stage 6) Started July 21th 2014
Other WIPs to finish:
1. Advent Calendar scarf
2. Crochet scrap afghan 
3. Sock Scrap afghan Started July 24th 2014
Designs:
Coming soon :)

My Ravelry projects page for YOP4 is here with a full list of wips and completed projects.

To check out other blogs taking part in YOP4 or to join head on over to the Ravelry group over here.

A Year of Projects - July 6th 2014

Here are a few pictures of where I am at this week.

Tour de Sock
1. Dazzle Them From Behind (Stage 4) - I have the legs on both complete now and am ready to go on to the heels.  I am making good progress here!  In order to qualify for competition points I need to have it done by July 19th - I think I am on track to make it on time.

Other WIPs to finish:
1. Advent Calendar scarf (6 out of 24 lace repeats complete) I have made zero progress on this in the past year and need to decide if I will finish it or frog it...

2. Crochet scrap afghan (77 little squares complete plus 9 partially done squares)  This also had no progress since last year...  I really need to either start making some more squares, or start sewing the squares together and call it done.  I think this might make for a couple small baby afghans.

3. I want to start a scrap afghan with all my left-over sock yarn - This is the one I want to make!  Here are a bunch of the little balls of leftovers I have ready to go.  I just need to start going with this one!!

This basically sets up my beginning status on my projects!  I hope to keep on track updating this on a regular basis.

A Year of Projects - July 21st 2014

Update number one!!  I managed to make some progress on my Tour de Sock socks while I was away on vacation.  I did not finish my Stage 4 socks quickly enough to qualify for points, but I did get them finished!  I also managed to cast on my Stage 5 socks the day before the deadline but I got nowhere close to finishing them!  I am making good progress though.  The final stage (Stage 6) pattern was released on Saturday and I am ready to cast on today.  I hope to have them completed before the deadline of July 30th.  Time will tell!

My Tour de Sock Stage 4 socks are all done!!  This was a fun pattern and I enjoyed the knit!  It has beads into the pattern along the back of the leg, but my color choice was maybe not the best.  The beads are a fairly close match to the yarn color and do not show up too well...  Oh well :)

Tour de Sock Stage 4 complete!!

I also started my Tour de Sock Stage 5 socks!  I managed to get a decent amount done, but will put them aside so I can get moving on Stage 6.  I'll come back to these in a couple weeks.

My progress to date on Tour de Sock Stage 5.

And Tour de Sock Stage 6 began on Saturday.  It is toe-up double knit and I was suffering from jet lag so I plan to cast on later today!

This is my start for Tour de Sock Stage 6

I hope to have a fair bit of work done on my Stage 6 socks by next week!!

Progress Summary:
Sock Madness 8:
1. Chill Thrill (round 6 socks)
2. Alexandrina (round 7 socks)
Tour de Sock
1. Dazzle Them From Behind (Stage 4)  DONE!!  Finished July 18th 2014 Link to finished project page
2. Arch-Nemesis (Stage 5)
3. Double Flake Squirrel Socks (Stage 6)
Other WIPs to finish:
1. Advent Calendar scarf
2. Crochet scrap afghan 
3. I want to start a scrap afghan with all my left-over sock yarn - This is the one I want to make!
Designs:
Coming soon :)

A Year of Projects - Take 4

I have decided to join the Fourth Year of Projects blogging adventure.  I joined up in the First Year and managed to get a few projects done.  I again joined the Third Year and suspect I accomplished even less.  I am convinced that I overestimated my ability to finish up all the projects I chose!  This year I plan to finish up a few challenges that I started recently - I joined up Sock Madness 8 and Tour de Sock.  I finished five rounds of Sock Madness and three round of the Tour so far.  The fourth round of the Tour is ongoing right now as I post this. I plan to now finish up all that I did not complete and that which is yet to come on the Tour.  I also have a couple other WIPs that I will work towards completion!

So, without further ado, here is my list:

Sock Madness 8:
1. Chill Thrill (round 6 socks)
2. Alexandrina (round 7 socks)

Tour de Sock
1. Dazzle Them From Behind (Stage 4)
2. Yet to be released (Stage 5)
3. Yet to be released (Stage 6)

Other WIPs to finish:
1. Advent Calendar scarf (7 out of 24 lace repeats complete) I have made zero progress on this in the past year and need to decide if I will finish it or frog it...
2. Crochet scrap afghan (14 little squares complete)  This also had no progress since last year...  Or maybe I made a few more squares - I'll have to dig it out and see!
3. I want to start a scrap afghan with all my left-over sock yarn - This is the one I want to make!

And one final thing is that I want to continue working on designs.  I have designed several patterns over the past year or so and have many more ideas that need to be put on paper!!