The first week of YOP traditionally consists of your list.  The list, as best as I can understand it, is mutable {yay!} and can be either project based or yarn based or skill based or combination of any of those things.  I love that I am not going to feel like a total failure for not checking off x, y, & z. Apparently the only real guideline is to post on Sundays with your update on your list.  I think I can do that.  Although, tbh, we are in the midst of a  rainy weekend and I almost put this off for fear of lightening striking.  That might sound odd but many, many years ago, when Nece was young, we had a thunderstorm and all the lights blew out.  When they came on the modem or what not had fried which required my electrical & computer engineering husband a week or so to fix.  We didn’t discover the modem fried bit until after the phone lines were fixed hence the weeks.  Surge protectors didn’t save us… not sure all I know is I was without internet for weeks.

Enough of my digressions-onto the lists

I decided to tackle the little bags of yarn I had gathered to combat my knitters ADD and the yarn on my desktop.  The yarn on my desktop is a particular tsk tsk since I am using a child sized desk that fits in my bedroom instead of my grownup desk that is being used by my child.  humph.  Oh so it is small and barely enough room for my computer and keyboard therefore the piles of yarn really bother me.  Every few months I do a clearing of the desk exercise but the piles still tend to stay.  They sometimes shrink but stay.

On the Desk:

• kypria
• hedgehog fibres fingering in merino, bamboo & silk @350 meters per Etsy listing
• the yarn for Angharad
• Lamoramere-gift from Angela on my birthday eep 12 yrs ago.
• yarn for 2 tams <missing a few colors here or there.  Purchasing piecemeal due to job hours being cut.
• 400 yds of cashmere-gift from Stitching girl Toni years and years ago
• and sock yarn remnants.  Some of these remnants are practically full balls for example the orange Eidos I used for stripes on my gentleman’s railway socks

7 Skeins Club bag:

• 7 skeins which includes the Kokkeluri mittens WIP
• Ulla’s Gloves kit purchased from Woolly West when Knitting from Estonia book published
• another mitten kit where I lost some of the little balls when moving away from house I lived in with ex.  Boo.

Trader Joes bag:

• Rowan lace yarn for Cameo
• Sharon Miller Hap shawl kit
• Silk Lace yarn
• Louet mohair lace weight
• J& S 1-ply -a lone ball that did not make it into the main bulk of lace bag which represents the entire 20 ball stash of the stuff 😉
• Squoosh MCN sock yarn in dewberry
• Starry Starry night sock kit
• and 3 hanks of the discontinued Madelaine yarn from K1C2

The big reusable grocery bag with orange on it:

• lots and lots of what I consider commercial sock yarns–a quick look see yielded 34 pairs worth at least

Obviously I cannot knit all of this stuff up in a year.  I may have been slightly more ambitious when stuffing yarn into bags a month or two ago because I was moved to part time. Plus the main goal was to combine smaller project worth of yarn into bags while cleaning up various piles.  Next week my hours are upped a bit YaY. After that I do not know.  I took advantage of the list mutability to narrow down particular project type goals:

1} Sweater for me.  Top choice first:

• Strokkur–already knit twice and had to frog
• Black mohair sweater-WW mohair =fast knit
• Sock yarn sweater-will take freaking forever
• or a vest  🙂

2} Socks:

for the year complete 4 pairs of socks for all household sock wearers.  Longtime blog readers know I do not consider myself a sock knitter so this is a big stretch made easier by the fact that I have completed a pair for myself and Tyler.   Easier still Nece doesn’t wear socks.  Break down is

• 4 socks for husband
• 3 socks for Tyler
• 3 socks for me

Yes I am counting last months socks as part of the YOP goal to have 4 new pairs per person.  

My Tams.  Please I need the preciousness.

The masses and masses of lace weight yarn implies I will do a shawl.

Buy yarn for Reef so Tyler can be super happy.  Maybe even start it.

I feel like I am being very ambitious given how little I have knit in past 5 yrs, and the job, but nowhere near as productive as I was in my heyday when knitting was my job. I also feel that there is enough flexibility that I won’t want to stab my eyes out with a dpn.  Not sure how to end this post.  It is, after all, where I think I want to go throughout the next year.  Not much else to say about it other than the usual

yarny days and knitterly evenings