Up this week…

So the weather here has been horrible and since I normally take ‘good’ pictures outside (the lighting is better) I haven’t been able to take better pictures of the scarfs I’ve finished. But I have gotten other stuff done (or at least started).

I’m making a black scarf for myself and I’m about 1/2 way done with it so I might be able to finish it this week. I’m also finally making headway on my mom’s ‘Vivette’ scarf. I like the new way I’m doing it (similar to the argosy scarf I made for my sister) and since the rows are shorter, it’s better on my attention span.

I still need to sit down with the purple/black scarf I blocked last week and add the fringe to it, sew in string ends, but otherwise I don’t have a lot to do. I’m gonna try and finish my scarf and my mom’s this week.

I’m also trying to plan out 5 Christmas presents. 1 for my sister, 1 for godfather (and 1 for his wife who signed all the cards, bought all the presents…etc.), 1 for my godmother, and 1 for my grandpa.

I think I can manage them over November and December…

Except for the fact  that I’ve decided to once again try NaNoWriMo. I attempted to complete it last year, but I didn’t outline very well and ended up getting about 3,000 words done before getting angry at all the plot changes I was coming up with and quit it.

This year, I’m planning on spending the rest of this week writing an outline and next week I’ll officially start writing it. It would help if I had decided which story idea I was going with.

Success?

I finished the second sock about 2 weeks ago.

I finished another scarf this past week.

I have two more scarfs currently being knitted.

I’m going to frog that pair of socks within the next few days and make a different pair from them (I mean I don’t do yoga, so what’s the point of having yoga socks? Ankle socks will at least be put to use)

I also finally decided that I was never going to finish my mother’s scarf if I stuck with my original design, so I’m in the process of redoing it. If all goes well (and it likely won’t) then I might be able to finish it by November.

I also finally blocked that lace scarf I finished a few weeks ago and decided to block the one I just finished as well. It didn’t really need it but I wanted to see if I could uncurl it a little. It looks like it might work but I’ll have a better idea tomorrow when I unpin it.

Here’s some pictures of the 2 scarfs being blocked.

The pictures aren’t great because of the lighting so I’ll put up nicer ones once I unpin both scarfs.

Hopefully I’ll get more done this week.

Failure!

Sort of.

Seeing as how it’s Saturday and all, meaning the day I was supposed to give my mother her new scarf, and I did not finish said scarf, that does technically make that a failure.

Luckily I was not entirely unproductive during this week.

I finished my lace scarf, although it does still need to be blocked.

I also worked on another scarf I started back in August. After working on it for a while I realized that I didn’t have enough yarn to finish it so I ordered more and set that scarf aside for now.

I’m still not working on my mother’s scarf, but I have decided to try an start and finish the sock pair from a while ago. One of them is finished but the other isn’t, so I’m working on that now.

Other than that…I got nothing else done.

This week was so boring.

Seriously the only highlights were the PBS Ken Burns specials.

Blah.