A Year of Projects - Year 8 - Week one

2018/2019

Last year my list was mainly about creating a hand made wardrobe.  This year I would quite like to take the same theme and work towards Me Made May.

Knitting
Quiet Stars - nearly finished
All The Love - cast on July 2018
Epistropy - all ready to go!
Christmas Jumper 2
Nasreen - Buy yarn from Wild and Woolly - for Colours of Fall KAL
Socks - various - use some of the many patterns I have but never used.

Sewing
Cleo (?x2) - 1 completed
Landers trousers - for the 2018 outfit along
tunic tops

Gifts
Mittens - one complete last year
Scarf - cast on 2017
Advent socks (gift for myself!)
Christmas jumper for Daniel

Techniques
Brioche
wool exploration

Other crafts
Keep up drawing
Complete the embroidery a day challenge
Bath bombs

It doesn't seem like much at the moment, but I will add to it as I always do - my aim is to be able to post a picture every day for Me Made May.

A Year of Projects Update - Round up post

This was my list for 2017/2018

This year, I had decided, was the year of the handmade wardrobe.  I did a fair bit towards it.

Sewing
Skirts:

• Gathered skirt - one done
• Delphine skirt - one done
• button through skirt - one done
• yoked skirt - not done - but did make 4 dresses and a pair of shorts.

Tops:

• Tunic top - one done
• t-shirt style top

Knitting

Sweaters:

• Breathing Space - Finished September 2017
• Epistrophy - Coldharbour Mill yarn - still bagged up and ready for me! 
• Tell it Slant - Eden Cottage Yarn - probably not - will repurpose yarn and possibly do something from PomPom instead.
• Christmas Jumper - Tenderheart - John Arbon Textiles knit by numbers - Finished November 
• Cropped sweater for winter - using my De rerum Natura  Gilliatt - Finished July 2017
• Chuck sweater - Coldharbour Mill yarn - finished
• Penguono - lots of stash yarn - finished
• All the love - yarn bought at Unravel

Accessories:

• Bonbon mitts - Finished August 2017
• Socks - I am not going to specify a pattern as new ones come up and I always want to do them - I subscribed to the Curious Handmade sock society and am making my way through those
• Shortie socks - to use up stash - one pair completed
• Knees up - Not as yet
• Pumpkin Spice mittens - was in progress - decided to use different yarn - now will use yarn used for my yarn exploration.
• Void shawl - made Reflection instead by Veera Valimaki

Other items

Gifts:

• Socks - finished and gifted
• Scarf - Sevilla - in progress for a friend - still!
• Bath bombs - for pressies and myself - not yet - this year though
• Christmas jumper for Thomas - follow tenderheart but add colorwork - Finished
• Mittens - start knitting for next Christmas - one done 5 more to go

Craft fair/other crafts:

• Embroidery - develop to make myself some bags
• Dog coats - knit some more
• Hot water bottle covers
• PE bags and pencil cases for the boys - finished August 2017

Finished items:

• Cropped sweater
• July socks
• August socks
• Wildflower honey test knit
• Bon bon mitts
• Breathing Space
• September socks
• Festive socks
• Advent socks
• Grandmas mitts
• November socks
• Sugarplum fairy socks
• Land of Sweets cowl
• Chuck
• Penguono
• Queen of Tarts socks
• Reflection
• Winter rose socks
• Zinone 2
• Thomas's Christmas jumper
• Shortie socks

Think I got most things here!

So what was my favourite project last year ....

It has to be Breathing Space

My most favourite socks....

My July socks designed by Knitterarium

My project that was the most fun to knit...

Penguono (hands down)

So that was YOP 7 - I wonder what YOP  has in store?

A Year of Projects Update - week 51

For some of us we are frighteningly close to the end of the YOP year.  I have usually written my last post of the year by now, but this year I haven't even really thought about it. I think I will start something in the week!
But for the moment, what have I been doing this week?
WIP's
I have been powering through my Quiet Stars by Joji Locatelli and am now finished with the body.  Just two sleeves to go and a tie!

I have also made good progress with my Waters by Andi Satterlund.  I am a little worried about the neckline, but I am hatching plans with the ribbing and I think that will be ok.

I haven't really done much else - I have started my Cleo dress and made a bag, but I will share those in two weeks when I unveil the next years list!
That is it for this week - I will wind up the year next week and then look forward to my next crafty year of projects.  To see how the others are fairing please click the link on the sidebar.