WEEK 2 and Goals

 

As you probably noticed, I was absent last week for week one of YOP 14.  Hubby and I went to Las Vegas with a group of friends and family.

This was us having dinner one evening to celebrate a birthday and anniversary.  There were 18 of us in total! What a fun trip.  Yet, I was very happy to be home after 4 days away.

I have had quite a hard time coming up with goals for this, my 14th year of doing YOP.  When I first started I had specific goals I wanted to attain.  As I grew in knowledge of my crafts, I became more general in my goals.  This year, I have decided to not make any real goals.  I have several WIP's that have languished for many moons.  Those will be the things I want to concentrate on the most.  My yarn stash is dwindling, other than my fingering weight yarn.  My sport/DK weight is depleted.  My worsted has just enough to do a few more prayer shawls.  My 'specialty' yarn has remained the same for several years.  But, the fingering yarn seems to multiply every time I go into my stash boxes!  I mean, how many socks can one person own?

So, that being said, here is a look at my 'goals' for this coming year.

WIP CARRY OVERS

Madonna and Child XS 8/7/20 -

Rolling on the River 3/20/24 -

MKAL Gnome 4/20/24 -

RCR 4/23/34 -

Habitation 5/20/24 -

Madonna and Child XS returned to me on  6/18/24 -

Felt Christmas Ornaments 10/18/22 - 

GOALS

Find ways to use up a plethora of fingering weight yarn!!!!

Mainly focus on the WIP's that are begging to be completed.

Enjoy the process of what ever craft I decide to focus on at the moment.

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Now, a look at what I have accomplished since my last blog update 2 weeks ago.

My RCR sock got some much needed attention this past week.  Doing a heel is my favorite part of any sock.  Well, that, and closing the toe.  This is the perfect project to take along with me to all my appointments coming up.

The Habitation Throw is moving slowly.  I am decreasing now which makes me happy.  With our temps being so hot, this has not been my number 1 items to work on.  The best part of this project is......It has used up all of the blue leftover yarn and is using up quite a bit of the creamy peach I had laying around.

This Madonna and Child got quite a bit of love too.  When I received it, it looked like this.

I do enjoy working on xs again.  The only drawback is not being able to 'watch' TV while doing it.  This piece has so many colors in it and they change every few stitches.  I really need to keep a close eye on the pattern and count carefully.  There are 9 pages of charts for this along with 43 different colors.  When I received this back from the person who had promised to do if for me, there were 5 colors missing.  They got ordered, were received and tagged and bagged so I could get this going.  It will be a full coverage piece............my first and possibly my last lol.

And now you are caught up on my crafting progress.With the trip to Vegas and all the medical testing I am having done at the present time, crafting has kind of been slow going.  It also looks like there will be more medical testing to come as they found a LARGE (2.9cm) nodule on my thyroid while doing my Carotid artery ultrasound.  (BTW, the carotids are fine!) 

 

I do want to share a couple more photos from our trip last weekend.

Josh and his youngest cousin

Stacie and Josh watching patriotic laser show with music

Yes, we are all wearing sweatshirts.  The casino was like a meat locker even though it was 120F outside.

One last bit of crafting for you.  This time from my niece who is an artist and has her own shop.

She does these amazing collages of different dog breeds.  She does other mediums of art also.  Go check out her shop.  It is amazing!

Of course, I could not leave today without a bit of humor for you.

Until Next Time.................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!!!!