Second last day of NaBloPoMo!! I'm going to make it!
Yesterday I managed to continue to keep up with my Advent Scarf and have finished up Day 5 now (and am ready to work on Day 6 over a cup of tea!) Here is the newest progress picture:
And I spent a bit of time working on my Vanilla Christmas socks last night. They are getting closer to completion, but still have a little way to go, especially since I have large feet...
I hit my NaKnitMo goal yesterday!! I have knit 51,286 stitches so far this month! And I have two days left to go so I will have a few more stitches to add to the total!
It seems that my posts are getting shorter and shorter as the month progresses! I suppose there is less to chat about when I am here every day!
Hello everyone! Another day of working and trying to squeeze a bit of crafting in!
So far today I have managed to finish the daily clue for the Advent Scarf and I will be spending some time later today working on my Julenatt Mittens. I am hoping to finish the first two clues on at least one mitten before Clue #3 comes out tomorrow morning... I am not sure if I will make it or not. We are hoping to go watch the movie Ralph Breaks the Internet this evening so that will use up some of my knitting time.
Here is what my scarf looks like now at the end of day 4:
I also thought I should give you an update on my NoKnitMo challenge - my goal is to knit 50000 stitches in the month of November. So far I have knit 46148 stitches. It looks promising that I will hit my goal!!
Hello and welcome to my latest Year of Projects update! Week 20!! Today also marks posting for each of the first 11 days in November so I am doing well in reaching my NaBloPoMo goal of posting each and every day in November! This week has been relatively productive for me although I have only focused on two projects.
My Texture Time Shawl has seen quite a bit of love this past week. I am now working on Clue #3 of the first half of the shawl and am about one third to one half done with the clue. I am looking forward to completing the shawl and being able to wear it, but that is still quite a way off. My progress this past week is from the blue marker:
And I made some progress on my Vanilla Christmas Socks too. I added a couple inches and hope to soon be ready to begin the heel flaps. My progress is from the blue marker:
My progress on NaKnitMo is going well too. In order to hit my target of 50,000 stitches in the month of November I need to average 1,666.67 stitches per day. At the end of Day 10 I should have knit a total of 16,666.7 stitches and I have actually knit 17,894 stitches so I am a bit ahead of schedule! YAY!
I posted my latest podcast early this morning. It is a bit rambling but I had fun talking to everyone about all sorts of upcoming plans I have!
Good morning and welcome to Day 9 of NaBloPoMo!! Almost a third of the way through the month!!
I had a productive day yesterday with both work and knitting! I had four one hour online educational sessions to watch/listen to and was able to happily knit away on my Texture Time Shawl throughout! I made some decent progress on the shawl, although I still have a long way to go until it is complete! I am done up to the end of row 58 of 154 on the first half of Clue #3. Anyway. here is a picture of my progress yesterday (from the blue marker forward):
Today we are heading out to do some shopping and I will tell you all about it tomorrow. We are hitting Hobby Lobby, Joann's, and Michaels. We also plan to stop at two different Goodwill stores - one of which I have never been to so I am excited! Wish me luck in finding all sorts of nicely priced treasures!!
I am keeping up the pace for meeting my NaKnitMo target! So far in November I have knit a total of 17,016 stitches and I need 13,333.36 to be on track to completing 50,000 stitches in November. So far so good!!
Back for another day! One week is done in NaBloPoMo already!! I managed to get a bit of work done on both my Christmas socks and my Texture Time Shawl yesterday.
Texture Time sees another few rows done on Clue #3 (from the blue marker onwards):
And my Christmas socks saw some progress as well (from the pink marker onwards):
Texture Time has a total of five clues. The first clue is the center back portion and clues 2 through 4 are done on each side of the center piece fanning out to either side. Clue five is an optional edging which I suspect I will include. I have completed clue one, have done clue two on one side, and am working on clue three on the same side. I will complete clue four on the first side next and then I will go back and do clue two through four on the other side. Then I will do the edging (clue five). Hope this makes sense :)
Today I have several online educational sessions so I will be able to happily knit through those - four hours of knitting time! YAY!! Let's see how far I get through the remainder of clue three on the first side!
Hello everyone and welcome to Week 19 of the Eighth Year of Projects and Day 4 of NaBloPoMo!
I have had a fairly productive week. I spent some time working on my Texture Time Shawl and I am nearly half done with Clue #2. I am clearly far behind everyone else... Oh well, I am still enjoying the knit and will love the shawl once it is finally finished! Since last week I have added four squiggles and three Latvian braids. One more squiggle and two braids left to complete the first half of the clue. Here is what it looks like now:
And I have a new cast on!! I started a pair of Christmas socks! I had dyed some Christmas yarn a little while back and now that my Sockhead Slouch Hat is finished I decided to add a new WIP to my pile! I am knitting them two at a time and am using a basic vanilla sock recipe. I am at about 5 1/4 inches now and plan to go to about 7 inches on the legs before I start my heel flaps. I don't really like a long sock - my calves are too large for long socks (or I should say I don't want to work out how much I need to do for increases to fit!) Anyway, here is my progress this week on my Christmas socks (there are two pictures - one from each side so you can see the spiraling and pooling - which I actually like (I know many people do not like this...)) :
I have a new episode up of my podcast:
And I am happily continuing with my NaBloPoMo challenge where I plan to blog each and every day through the month of November. So far I am on track! I am also participating in NaKnitMo this month too. Here I am committing to knitting 50,000 stitches this month! That works out to an average of 1666.67 stitches per day - so far I am a bit ahead of schedule. I have tried this challenge before but did not succeed - maybe this year?
Good morning and welcome to NaBloPoMo Day 3! I had a productive knitting (and work) day all rolled into one! I had a conference to go to yesterday and I took along my Christmas Socks to work on along the drive. I went with my sidekick from work and she did the driving. It was too dark on the way there to knit, but once we were settled into the conference I checked with someone running the conference if it was OK for me to knit - and she was fine with that. So I knit for the six hours we were there! I managed to add about two inches onto my Christmas socks (two at a time) so I was happy with that! Here is where I am now (the blue marker is where I was before I started for the day):
I had someone ask in the comments yesterday about how I work out how many stitches I do per day to add to my NaKniMo count. I actually keep track of how many rows I do and know how many stitches I have per row and then do the math to work it out at the end of the day. So for example yesterday - I kept track of how many rounds I did on my Christmas socks - 23 1/2. I know each sock has 64 stitches so I multiplied 23 rounds times 64 stitches per round times 2 socks + 64 for the half round to get to a total of 3008 stitches knit on my socks. I also added a few rows on my Texture Time Shawl and worked it out the same way - I have worked out how many stitches there are in each of the 12 short rows and how many stitches there are in the Latvian braid rows - so when I knit I keep track of which rows I did in a day and then work out how many stitches that was. So for my Texture Time Shawl yesterday I did from row 7 through 12 on the squiggle section which gave me 306 stitches. So my total for yesterday was 3314 stitches! So far I am ahead of schedule!
Back for Day 2 of NaBloPoMo! Yesterday was a good day! I watched some TV and worked on my Texture Time Mystery Shawl. I got a bit of a start on my organizing that I threatened to work on yesterday, but I did not do as much as I planned. I thought I would leave some until the evening, but I forgot that I was planning to donate blood yesterday. Once of the restrictions is to take it easy and not lift heavy things for the first while after - so that was a good enough excuse to sit, relax, and knit last night! I plan to get a bit more done on that this evening and tomorrow! I'll keep you posted.
I did cake up two skeins of yarn so that I can continue with my Rowe Cardigan later on. I am nearly done with the two sleeves and I really should get back to working on this project so that I can wear it this winter!!
I added some to my Texture Time Mystery Shawl - I forgot to take a "before" photo... I started yesterday where the light blue marker is:
Today I am heading out to a conference for the day. It is about an hours drive away and my colleague is driving so I am going to take my Christmas Socks to work on in the car. I am not sure how much I will get done, but I'll take it an see. Here is where I am now:
My goal for NaKnitMo is 1666.67 stitches per day to hit my 50,000 stitch goal for the month. Yesterday I knit 1966 stitches! YAY - so far I am on target. I am not sure if I will hit the goal for today, but we shall see! Time to go and get organized to hit the trail! Have a great day everyone!
So I am taking the plunge and will attempt to post each and every day in November as part of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) 2018!! I participated in 2015 and posted times only a few times. I participated again in 2016 and posted 28 times - I only missed two days and labeled it a success! I participated in 2018 and I posted something every single day!! I am aiming to post all 30 days again this November!
This year I plan to write about crafting - knitting, crochet, designing, some drawing and other artistic endeavors, bullet journaling, and maybe some card making. I have a little over a week off work this month for Thanksgiving and plan to do some major sorting of all the excess stuff I have and also plan to have several days where I really settle down and focus on a specific project. Once we get closer to the break I will post my list.
I am also planning to participate in NaKnitMo - where I hope to knit 50,000 stitches during the month of November. It is a lofty goal. but broken down it means doing 1666.67 stitches per day. More details about this can be found here.
My main plan for the month is to update you each day on what I did craft, art, and organization wise.
Today I plan to tackle my yarn stash and see what I can do about organizing it a bit better. I need to see what I need to add to my Ravelry stash - I know I have a fair bit of yarn that needs to be added... And I want to look over all of my knit (and some crochet) items - scarves, shawls, cowls, and socks - and figure out a way to get this all more nicely organized. And I need to get all of my design samples into one place. Right now they are here and there and probably some other corners too...
During the month I will likely also vlog about some of my activities and I will post that info here too. Anyway, time to go and start doing some organizing! See you tomorrow! I'll have some pictures to share with you then!
