Yarn: Mission Falls 1824 Cotton

Pattern: Soft Drawstring Pouch by Joelle Hoverson

Notes: Really only loosely based on this pattern; I cast on half the stitches called for to make a very small sack and other than that followed the instructions. It’s still kind of too big but I needed something for my soap scraps, the bathroom was getting out of control.

Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed in Chocolate Covered Cherries

Pattern:  Yoga/Dance Socks by Charlene Schurch and Beth Parrott

Notes: These took, like, NO time!

Yarn: Briar Rose Wistful and HaldeCraft HandDyed in “None of your Beeswax”

Pattern: Mostly the EZ percentage system for a pullover, but also a few touches made up as I went along (like a picot bindoff, double rolled collar, hemmed sleeves and bottom.

Notes: I wanted something that looked like a t-shirt over a long-sleeved shirt, and am pretty sure I got what I was aiming for!

Yesterday I fired the kiln, and as it cooled quickly I just cracked it open; the Marys all came out, but another yellow bird mug had a suicide. Now  I have a pair of completely unusable yellow mugs with birds on their butts! I need to brainstorm on something else I can use them for. Some sort of hanging birdfeeder-type thing. Or a hanging planter. I know there’s something I can use them for, I just need to figure out what (besides, I mean, marking them up to twice the price and calling them “art”).

In addition to winding yarn, making lotion, and firing the kiln yesterday, I also started a new afghan. It’s the same pattern I used for the Giant Pink Afghan (hunh… looks like I never wrote a post about that… research shows me that that was just a couple of weeks after the Giant Blog Hose of 2009 and about a week before Uncle Joe got sick… so here’s just a picture of it and can someone remind me later to write a blog post about it because the story is really kind of funny, k, thnx) and the Giant Green Afghan – both of which were also made with handspun – but this one will not have a carry-along yarn like the other two did. Just handspun. This one also won’t be as big; I’m going for more of a lap-blanket kind of size than a full-on afghan. Maybe three feet across instead of six (which means I’m about a third of the way there already). I noticed when arranging my stash the other day that while I have a lot of handspun marked for me to sell, I have a lot that I’ve been keeping but not working with. Why have I not worked with it? I keep thinking “I’m going to use this for something special”… well, go ahead and make something special, then, self; or sell it. Or gift to friends.

Right, then. Today? Pouring some greenware, cleaning dry greenware and loading up the kiln for firing on Monday, and later tonight going to the grand opening of a friend’s sewing studio. I promise to shower in between getting dirty from working with ceramics and going to the opening. I may even, if I remember to shave my legs, wear one of the skirts I’ve sewn. I wonder if I could pair that with a handknit top? Who would look like the crazy crafty lady then, I ask you? HMMMMMMMMM?

Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed in “Neapolitan”

Pattern: made up as I went along

Notes: Came out just a little tight; anyone with small hands like pink? Let me know. You could get these for Christmas or a birthday in 2012.

Yarn: HaldeCraft Handyed in “Sock Monkey” and Cascade 220 in “Japanese Maple”

Pattern: Feline Dim Sum by Julie Falatko

Notes: Made for Christmas stocking stuffers; hoping to make six, had time and yarn to make five (ran out of brown yarn after four so made one in Sock Monkey) and gave one away before being photographed. Meh. The cats like them about as much as I thought they would. They’d rather have the ‘nip right out of the bag from the pet shop. Why did I even bother?

Yarn: String Theory Colorworks Resonance Self Striping in “Fermentation”

Pattern: Fissility by Lorena Haldeman

Notes: worn for the first time on Christmas Day!

If you’re in a reader, you probably won’t see the photos just above this sentence. Go ahead! Click on over! I won’t bite!

Some of these were just finished in the last week or so, and haven’t been blogged yet — expect details on them in the coming weeks.

This also made me curious about my stats…. so, here’s a finished object count, starting with when I began to track such things:
2006: 47 finished objects
2007: 51 finished objects
2008: 71 finished objects
2009: 97 finished objects
2010: 44 finished objects
2011: 37 finished objects

How many will 2012 bring…?

Yarn: Fiesta Yarns Boomerang in “Sedona”

Pattern: Roll-Top Bootees by Zoë Mellor

Notes: goes with the Not a Placket Pullover; made for my friend’s baby who is thankfully garganutan, meaning that the things I knitted and fretted over that they had turned out too large… fit fine.

Yarn: Mind’s Eye Yarns, from the March 2011 sock club

Pattern: Kaiso by Judy Sumner