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April Knitting and May knitting goals

Sometimes I have months where I think I've accomplished lots of knitting, but haven't ticked many of my monthly knitting goals.  This was such a month.  Only seven things on the list (one was only to blog!) but I've managed just three of the goals.   So, which ones are done?

 

April:

Blog:

1) Green socks.  Done! 

Finish:

2) Deco cardigan, my third for IntSweMoDo2012.  Nearly done!  I have finished all of the knitting, sewn in all of the ends (except a few, I always leave a few to do at the very end), and find buttons.  So I am thinking that this is a done thing rather than a fail thing.    

(not purple!!)

Start and finish:

3) Fourth pair of socks.  Done!  Lorna's Laces in Glenwood,  Not blogged yet. 

4) Fourth garment for IntSweMoDo2012.  Nearly done!  The knitting part is finsihed, just have to sew back neck down, set in sleeves and darn in ends,  No buttons required on this one!

5) Fourth hat. Done! 

6) Fourth pair of fingerless mitts. Fail!  Not even cast on. 

7) Fourth Other.  Fail, Not even cast on!

So.  Two fails,  trhee successes and two nearly theres.   It meant tha thtis morning I had to rummage around in the stash to find some sock yarn so that I can start something for the commute.  Not enough time to sit down and see if tehr was a mitts pattern to cast on!

 

I feel quite pleased, getting Deco and Ormond nearly finished.  It means free needles for the next garment for IntSweMoDo2012/

 

I haven't managed to do all of my monthly knitting goals in 2012, and, frankly, i'm a bit bored of saying 'one hat, one pair of socks, one pair of mitts, one Other',  It'sm my fault, setting a challenge of knitting 12 knits for heads, body, hands, feet and Other.   I fancy a change, and think I shall concentrate on a few things from the same category for May.   I do need to keep up with the garments though!

May knitting goals:

Finish and blog:

1) Deco, my third garment for IntSweMoDo2012.  Just buttons!

2) Ormond, my fourth garment for IntSweMoDo2012.  Set in sleeves, sew down collar and ends. 

3) Lorna's Laces Glenwood socks.  No finishing required, apart from a bit of the old steam iron.

Start and finish:

4) My fifth garment for IntSweMoDo2012.  NO IDEA whaich one to do!  From stash though.  I want to knit something navy, but then my choice is either 4ply Jaeger Sienna Cotton, or dk Jaeger Albany.  If I want an aran weight, I have some pinkish Rowan Cotton Jeans, or possibly I could go green, lots of nice green cotton yarn!  Or yarn which I bought for a specific caridgan?  These decisions might have to wait until the weekend when I can do another stash rummage!

5) A hat. Nothing planned, but there are a few catching my eye on ravelry.  WoollyWormhead ahd a kal for May, looks lovely...

6) FINGERLESS MITTS!!  There is a kal on a ravelry group, and I am aiming to join, if I can find some worsted weight yarns in the stash.

7) More  mitts.  It's been af ew months since I last knitted any. Now is the time to knuckle down. :)

8)  Plain socks,  good commuter and carry-along knitting.  I have cast on (just) this morning, some Opan Surprise.  Probably for the gift box.

9) Can't quite make up my mind (but want to make it a 10 item list!) .  Maybe soem more mitts or wirsters.

Start:

9)  Wait for it ....   Crochet!  I have fancied doing some for  a few weeks.  I'm not an intuitive crocheter.  I can't seem to follow instructions, can't count the stitches, but every so often I fancy doing some.  I have a very loose idea to crochet a tablecloth for my bedside table,  I have lots of Rowan 4ply cotton in quite fresh colours, and found a pack of lemon 4ply cotton in the stash which I shall never use.  That's at least a day's worth of ravelry surfing!

I love a challenge!

March knitting and April knitting goals

March has flown by, rather too quickly!  I haven't finished my March knitting! Oh well, not too far behind!

 

MARCH:

Blog:

1) My Hall of Fire tam - done!

Finish:

2) My pink socks for SKA.  Done!

3) The fingeerless mitts - urgh, not done. I seem to have lost the fingerless mitts mojo!

Start and finish:

4) My third garment for IntSweMoDo2012.  It's Deco, and it's not done.  I mgiht have been halfway through the first sleeve if I hadn't frogged a whole six inches of body. 

5) My third pair of socks. Done!  Finished yesterday, in the nick of time. I haven't blogged these yet, but they're just plain self striping yarn.

6)  My third hat.  Done!  A very quick baby hat.

7) My second Other.   Done!  A cute kimono. 

8) My third Other.  Another cute baby cardigan.

So, six (small) successes and two fails.

Now for April. I'm going to assume that I'll be able to knit a phenomenal amount as it's Easter and we stay at home.  I'll be visiting the family sometime this month too, that's a lot of knitting time.

April:

Blog:

1) Green socks, my third for the year.

Finish:

2) Deco cardigan, my third for IntSweMoDo2012.  I will finish..

I'm abandoning the just-started mitts, obviously they aren't going to happen.

Start and finish:

3) Fourth pair of socks. I have wound up soem Lorna's laces yarn in a Spring colour.

4) Fourth garment for IntSweMoDo2012.  No idea, but I thougth I might look at some lighter colours, am fed up with dark colours.  FROM STASH!

5) Fourth hat. 

6) Fourth pair of fingerless mitts. Will try a different pattern!

7) Fourth Other. 

No idea what any of these fourth hat/mitts/other/garment will be.  It'll be fun to browse ravelry, just have to avoid getting sucked in!

I have done another month with no yarn purchases.  I have found out though that I have a $50 credit at Elann, so I shall be scouring their site for bargains!

 

 

January knitting and February knitting goals

Odd.  I have less goals for January and can't manage them all!  FIVW!   Oh dear. I had better manage seven for February, even though it's  a shorter month.

1) Finish Boreal  Done!  I might well try to get a better photo this month.

2) Continue with Urban Troubadour finishing the colourwork charts.  Done!

3) Continue with the hexipuffs as best I can. If not 31 then certainly 20!  Fail!  Managed  15.  I dithered... and mittens called louder!

4)  Start a pair of socks.  Fail!  I haven't even looked at patterns.

5) Last, but not least, NaKniMitMo2012.  Knit mittens for January.  Done!  I amanged three pairs (third pair finished last night).  A few stops and starts meant that I could have managed four pairs!

 

So now for February.

Blog:

1) My last pair of mittens for NaKniMitMo12.  They're Polska. I've knitted three in total!

Finish:

2) Urban Troubadour shoulder wrap.  I have the boring ribbed section to knit. 

Continue:

3) Hexipuffs!  I'm not even going to think of a number, as long as it's over ten!

Start and Finish:

4) My second garment for IntSweMoDo12.  I have swatched...

5) A hat.  I have a kit.

6) Another hat. I want to make twelve this year.

7) Some fingerless mitts.

8) Some socks. 

Start:

9) Some more socks. I aim to do a pair each month, and I'm slacking.

 

Good job it's a Leap Year and that I have an extra day this month!

 

January knitting goals

My original list:

1) finish  Boreal

2) finish Urban Troubadour

3) start and finish a hat

4) start and finish a pair of socks

5) knit 31 hexipuffs

6) start and finish something for hands

7) knit as many pairs of mittens as I can for January NaKniMitMo2012

8) start my second garment.

Then I took a step back and looked at the list.  Impossible!  

For my Resolutions to succeed, then I should be knitting a garment, a pair of socks, a hat, a pair of mitts, something else and 30 hexipuffs each month.  But I think this month I shall not do six options,  I shall concentrate on just a few!

So here goes for January:

1) Finish Boreal

2) Continue with Urban Troubadour finishing the colourwork charts.  After all, this ia a  big Other and I can spread it out over two months, right?

3) Continue with the hexipuffs as best I can. If not 31 then certainly 20!

4)  Start a pair of socks.  I fancy doing the SKA challenge for this month, so as long as I cast on before the 31st (and finish by the end of February) they can be included in the challenge.

5) Last, but not least, NaKniMitMo2012.  Knit mittens for January.  I am so into this challenge!  I have already finished one mitten and am aiming to knit three pairs this month.  Last year I chose to do several pairs in worsted weight yarns but this year I fancy 4ply.  One of my aims is to get some of the oddemnts stash down, and I have  huge box of 4ply (not sock yarns but remnants and cones and kits)

Do-able?

 

December knitting goals

I can tell I'm off owrk, daily blogging!

As I don't think I shall finish any more wips, I'm posting my December goals earlier thanusual (after all, have to do the annual review at some stage before the end of the year!)

Didn't quite manage them all this time, but did well!

 

1) baby ensemble for a baby girl due early December, needs to get to Moscow! Done!    

2) Mr C's other birthday present (socks already knitted) a voyageur's hat. Done!

3) Christmas presents for Mr C's father - done!

 

4) Mr C's Christmas presntes socks and clogs.  Done!  

 

5) Miss E (cardigan and hat), new baby T baby cardigan and hat) Fail!  I think I'd reached my limit for baby.toddler knitting and ran out of time!)

6)Knitting for ME. 

Urban Troubadour Started!  adn Boreal started

I've additionally knitted another Small Things for a baby boy due on 31st - will find out next week if he's arrived yet!

This is a better photo than the one blogged. It is at least lying flat!

 

Overall very pleaed. I could not have knitted the extra Christmas presents, time wasn't on my side!  But everything else is done, and I still have a few days of December left.  I am tempted to start some mittens....

I'm still thinking about January goals.  And New Year Resolutions. I'm afraid 2011 resolutions were a failure!

November knitting and December knitting plans (again)

I've not managed all of my goals, but feel like I've done quite well this month,.

Blog:

1) Every day for NaBloPoMo.  With this post I've succeeded!  It's not as hard as I think it will be, I always managed to find some knitting stuff to blog about.  I just need to stay organised and fit in a blog post earlier on in the day. So pleased to have done this.  Mind you, i have a stack of blogs to read, that's fallen ebehind!

2) Block and blog the 10th shawl for 11shawls2011.  Semele.  Done!

3) Wash and blog Chickadee. Done!

Finish:

4) Baby hat for Mr T.  Done!

5) Baby jacket for Mr T.  Done!

6) My final shawl for 11shawls2011 - it's Shaelyn. Done!  Need to block it. 

7) SKA October socks - Winter's Eve. One sock to knit. Fail!  I've abandoned these.  The yarn wasn't right for the pattern, it needs a yar which shows off the stitches.  It took me a whole sock  before I acknowledged this!

8) SKA October socks - Little Child's Sock  Done!

Start and finish:

9) Baby bootees for Mr T. Done!

10) Socks for Miss E.   Done!

11) Cardigan for Miss E. Done! 

12) Hat for Miss E.  Done!

13) WoollyWormhead's Mystery Hat KAL.  Done!

14) SolidSocks November socks  Fail!  I would have liked to do this too, as the theme was Autumn and I have some lovely autumnal colours in my sock yarn stash.  Too busy on baby things this month.

Start (but possibly not finish):

15) This month's offering from IKL (not just) sock club.   Fail!  I have ust received the yarn today, but I think I will wait and cast on next month as I have Christmas and baby knitting to do first. It could be something I start after Christmas for myself, as a reward for all this gift knitting!

 

Overall very pleased.  Now if December goes to plan I shall be very leaed again, as there's lots of knitting to do.  I'm going to copy and paste December goals as a reminder to myself!  I've already started the pink bab cardigan.  Babt;s de in a week and it's hovering above ffreezing, with a little bit of snow in Moscow at the moment.  Not too harsh weather yet!

1) Early December  birth day - a baby ensemble for a baby girl due early December, needs to get to Moscow!

2) By 10th December - Mr C's other birthday present (socks already knitted) - either felted clogs or a voyageur's hat.

3) By 14th (parcel) or 20th (first class) - Christmas presents for Mr C's father (scarf or hat), Miss E (cardigan and hat), new baby T (not yet here! - baby cardigan and hat)

4) By 24th Mr C's Christmas presents (socks and whatever I didn't knit for his birthday)

5) Knitting for ME.  A knitting kit to open and start on Christmas day.  We always have a very quiet day, just pottering around.  All I do is cook the turkey and imbibe,  so plenty of time to knit,

n other words

Newborn:  one pair of bootees, two cardigans, two hats

Toddler: hat and cardigan

Man: socks, felted clogs,  voyaguer's hat, one hat or scarf

Dawn: knitting kit. It's a shoulder cowl :)

That's twelve things.  And I bet I cast on a few more!

October knitting and November knitting goals

It's November.   That means one thing - NaBloPoMo!  A month of daily posts!  I've uploaded the button to the sidebar for a link to the Blogher site.  I still have no plans,  but will try very hard to stick to knitting posts!

 

So, first post of the month is my monthly goals.

How did I do?

October goals

Blog:

1) Plain socks for Mr C. Done!

Finish:

2) Chickadee.  Done!  (sort of).  I have finished all the knitting, the sewing in of ends and adding of buttons.  Just a wash to do. 

3) SKA September socks. Done!

4) My 10th shawl for 11shawls2011.  Done!  Needs a blocking.

Start:

5) My 11th, and final shawl, for 11shawls2011.  Started!  No photos, I forgot.  It''s Shaelyn, a super easy shawl for my final shawl this year.

6) SKA October kal.  Done!  Sock #1 is finished, one to go. It's Winter's Eve. 

7) SolidSocks for October.  It's purple, I have purple sock yarn! Done!  But alas only one sock is finished, so it doesn't qualify for SolidSocks.  It does, however, qualify for SKA October socks as the pattern is a textured one:  Little Child's Sock by Nancy Bush. I'm on the second sock.

So all goals met! I have been a busy knitter, managing to knit a baby hat and cardigan (yes, just the buttons and finishing to do) for my new great nephew to be.  If the baby arrives on the due date I have 21 days to knit but if he arrives early I have my work cut out!  I'll be knitting things for his big sister Miss E. as well, so it's double knitting!

Now for the November goals, and I have a lot this time, though hopefully some are small projects.

Blog:

1) Every day for NaBloPoMo. 

2) Block and blog the 10th shawl for 11shawls2011.  Semele. 

3) Wash and blog Chickadee.

Finish:

4) Baby hat for Mr T.  Knitting is done,  need buttons and ends darned in.

5) Baby jacket for Mr T.  Knitting is done, need buttons and ends darned in.

6) My final shawl for 11shawls2011 - it's Shaelyn.

7) SKA October socks - Winter's Eve. One sock to knit.

8) SKA October socks - Little Child's Sock  One sock to go.

Start and finish:

9) Baby bootees for Mr T.

10) Socks for Miss E.  She's three, should be quick!

11) Cardigan for Miss E. 

12) Hat for Miss E.  I'm sorry to say that her head circumference is already 19"!  She will really suit a beret, with her ringlets peeping out!

13) WoollyWormhead's Mystery Hat KAL.  It starts today, but it's not too late to join in!  There are two patterns, I'll be knitting Pattern A, a sportweight design.

14) SolidSocks November socks (which I must remember to finish this month) - there's no colour this month, the theme is Autumn, open to self interpretation.  I have some lovely russet yarn, somewhere.

Start (but possibly not finish):

15) This month's offering from IKL (not just) sock club.  I have kept up to date so far,  knitting all shawls, but I fancy a change of pattern...

 

This is quite a lot of knitting!   Shawl, four socks, baby bootees, toddler cardigan, hat and socks, an accessory of some sort, and a hat!  Those knitting needles will be smoking!

 

 

August knitting and September knitting goals.

Oops! Nearly forgot to do a blog post!

I decided last month to decrease the list and hopefully that would mean I might finish it.  Not!
But I did pretty well.

August goals.

Blog:

1) Hamamelis Shawl.  Done!

Finish:

2) Cria cardigan.  Done! 

3) Current plain socks on the needles - done!  

4) Mitred crosses blanket.  Done! 

5) My eighth shawl for 11shawls2011. Done!  It's Aestlight.

6) My ninth shawl for 11shawls2011. This is the Westsknits KAL.  FAIL.  I hated my colours. 

Start:

7) Another cardigan, Chickadee.  Done!  Though not much progress, one sleeve and the yoke knitted so far.

Overall, I'm pleased.  I started a new ninth shawl, though it's not finished yet. but more than half way through,  the Polka Dot Stole.  I've also started two pairs of socks, one plain and one textured.

Now for September.

Finish:

1)  Polka Dot Stole, my ninth shawl for 11shawls2011

2) Plain Opal Magic socks.

3) Gentleman's Lozenge socks from Vintage knits.

4) Chickadee!

That's a lot of knitting!  It will also clear my needles for new things!

Start:

5) Socks for SKA on ravelry. Yes, I'm going to join the Sockdown kal!  I have a few patterns selected, and will make up my mind this coming week.

6) My 10th shawl for 11shawls2011.   Not a clue which one to start, yet.

7) Something small.    Nothing comes to mind. Possibly get going on the fingerless mitts>

Lots of socks in my list this month, let's see if I can get back to sock knitting!

 

July knitting and August knitting goals

August already, how did that happen?

 

Didn't quite manage all the things I wanted to, but managed most, so I am pleased.

July plans:

Blog:

1) In Dreams shawl. Done!

2) Plain khaki socks. Done! 

Finish:

3) Magrathea shawl. Done!

4) Cria cardigan.  Fail!  I dithered about this one, wanted to work short rows and worried about running out of yarn. The short rows are done, the extra balls of yarn were ordered. It's now plain sailing. I have just 25 more rows of the body, pocket linings and then buttons and ends, lots of them. 

5) Mitred Crosses.  Done! Not finished I hasten to add, but the three remaining squares, plus some garter stitch rectangles done. 

6) Hamamelis shawl.  Done!  I still need to block this.

7) Fingerless gloves #7 for the kal.  Fail!  The fingerless gloves knitting mojo has gone the same way as the mittens mojo - down the pan. Hopefully when the weather cools, and I have less distractions, I'll start knitting these again.

8) Socks.  Started some but haven't picked them up for a few weeks.   I've been knitting on my blanket instead. 

9) Something from the IKL not just sock club, July's offering.  Started!  I've onbly just started, the tiny little triangle of shawl hasn't even been photographed yet.

10) Something for a baby, Done!

 

So the majority of things I wanted to do for July were done.  I keep trying to cut the list down from 10  to 7 but other things creep onto it! 

August plaans

Blog:

1) Hamamelis Shawl, when it's blocked. This will be my seventh shawl for 11shawls2011.

Finish:

2) Cria cardigan - not long now!

3) Current plain socks on the needles

4) Mitred crosses blanket. Not much knitting left, but all that finishing!

5) My eighth shawl for 11shawls2011. This is the IKL (not just) sock club yarn shawl

6) My ninth shawl for 11shawls2011. This is the Westsknits KAL, I'm presuming that after the four clues we are finished. If not, then I'll at least keep up.

Start:

7) Another cardigan, think it shall be Chickadee.  But my pans can change.

 

I'm sticking to seven this month, though I have plenty of things I wish to start!  There are so many new season books out, and knitting ennablers (one in particular, you know who you are!) that my head is filled with new patterns and designs I wish to start.

 

June knitting and July knitting goals

I can't believe that it's July already!  Where does the time go?

I didn't manage all of the June goals, but most of them.  I was sitting there last night thinking that if I cast on one more thing I would do the lot,  but it was too rushed, so I just carried on with the current projects instead.

1) Blog Andrea shawl.  Done!

2)  Finish Cameo.  Done!

3) Finish Andrea mitts, my sixth for fgf 11 in 2011. Done!

4) Finish In Dreams.  Done done done!!!

5) Finish my regia stretch khaki socks.  Done!  Finished them last night, but I haven't even blogged or added them to my ravelry list yet.  Could be because they are a bit khaki and boring ...

6) Continue with the mitred crosses.  See if I can get up to 7 knitted. Done! 

a7)  Start my fifth (or sixth, if I finish In Dreams first) shawl for 11 in 2011.  Started!  It's Magrathea,  a very simple garter stitch body with knitted as you go edging. 

8) Start my seventh fingerless gloves.  This is the one Not Done.  I decided to take my time choosing yarn and patterns, so this will be for July  now.

9) Start another garment.  Done!  It's Cria
A bit neglected in June, but I'll get going again this month.

10)  Let's leave this blank .. Done!  I started another shawl.  It's very early days, another Kirsten Kapur one - Hamamelis.  I only started it this week, in some Knitwitches Camel and silk.  I need to knit a little longer before it is officially a wip!

Very pleased with my progress this month. There are so many things I want to knit,  not enough hours in the day! 

July plans:

Blog:

1) In Dreams shawl. 

2) Plain khaki socks.

Finish:

3) Magrathea shawl. I'm on the edging for the other side now, so this shouldn't take too much time.

4) Cria cardigan.  Because I want to knit another half a dozen patterns!

Continue:

5) Mitred Crosses.  I have three more cross patterned squares to go, then it's the filler and the edging. I hope to do the three squares and one row of the fill in rectangles. 

6) Hamamelis shawl.  I'm sure this is a quick one, but I do tend to get waylaid...

Start:

7) Fingerless gloves #7 for the kal.  Lots to choose from, I just need to sit down and make up my mind!

8) Socks.  Probably plain again.  Not sure if I ought to do some for me, or for Mr C, who has claimed some Opal Magic that was out of its box.

9) Something from the IKL not just sock club, July's offering.  I'll decide when I see the yarn.

10) Something for a baby, due last Sunday. I'm waiting to see what sex the baby is first.  I pulled out what I thought was very good yarn for a baby - it was from the Wollmeise sock club, called Saami,  a cream yarn with flashes of bright red, yellow and blue. Here's a ravelry link.  Mr C leapt on it.  He wants a Herbivore shawl made out of it for himself (he loved the one he modelled).  So it's back in the stash, later on in the year I shall make him his own bright herbivore!

That's it.  A round 10.  I might do as last month, and have a few weeks of weekly goals.