Taking Stock, Part 3

What's still on the needles? Not much, actually. I finished a couple of small projects and frogged a couple of large ones, which leaves me with:

Fife. I AM SO EXCITED I AM ALMOST TO THE GUSSETS DEAR GOD WILL THIS NEVER END?

It's farther along than that now, but not by much. I started this in January of 2010 and am about 30% done. If I continue at this rate, it should be done in January 2020. I do plan on picking up the pace and hope to have it done by 2016. I like it enough to not frog it and tell myself that it's the perfect project for the next Knitting Olympics.

More recently (December of 2012), I cast on another Point Arena. The first Point Arena is large enough to wear over a sweatshirt, which is useful when you're working in a virtually unheated home office but it's not exactly flattering. This is much smaller so I can wear it in a virtually unheated company office. This is Berocco Vintage in Denim worked on US 4s.

The back is done and the front is about 1/2 done so the whole thing is 55% or 60% done. It's deadly dull to knit though so I'm rewarding myself with a break to do a small project. I think I'll do Kittiwake and a pair of mittens with the teal Scottish Fleet.

Taking Stock, Part 2

This is what I have for large projects:

10 skeins of Berocco Vintage in purple. This is for Alice Starmore's Inishmore and is next in the queue.

 20 skeins of Rowan Silk Wool DK in scallop. I think I'll use this for a modified version of Jade Starmore's Sand Dollar.

 

14 skeins of Rowan Wool Cotton in deepest olive. I love this color and wish I had more of it. I've being playing around with swatches and ideas for a lace pullover and should have enough for that.

7 skeins of Sheep Shop Yarn Company Sheep 3 yarn in teal. I bought this for Alice Starmore's St Brigid. I've already knit it but I used crap yarn and didn't have quite enough so I had to make the sleeves a little shorter than I wanted. I hope this isn't too heavy for an Aran as I have no "plan B" for this yarn.

13.5 skeins of Rowan Extra Fine Merino DK in myrtle, which is a reddish purple. I think I'll use this for Alice  Starmore's Norfolk.

20 skeins of Garnstudio DROPS Camilia Superwash in ivory and 8 skeins in aqua. That's enough for two sweaters, one stranded and one textured. Maybe something by Alice or Jade Starmore. I hardly ever knit their patterns.

3 cones of Frangipani 5-ply guernsey in cedar. I bought this for Alice Starmore's Stornoway. Apparently I really liked this color at some point but now I wish I'd gotten it in navy blue. I'm going to try to sell or trade it but I'll use it for Stornoway if I can't.

22 skeins of Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift in assorted colors. I bought this for Autumn Rose by Eunny Jang but then I remembered that I'm only allowed to knit patterns by Alice or Jade Starmore. Or maybe I realized that I don't really like Jamieson's and there's no way I can wear it next to the skin so I'm going to try and sell it as a kit.

9 skeins of Jamieson & Smith 1-ply cobweb in white. One of these days, I'm going to knit some Shetland Lace. Evidently I planned on knitting a lot of Shetland lace because 9 skeins is 3420 yards.

12 skeins of Alice Starmore Hebridean 3-ply in Selkie. I bought this for the pattern Strathspey, which  I don't have any interest in knitting but there isn't enough to knit any other patterns that do interest me so I'm going to try to sell it.

Taking Stock, Part 1

I reviewed all my projects and frogged a few of them. Then I went through all my yarn and ruthlessly sorted it. I donated over half and kept only what I was really excited about using, which left me with:

1.  21 skeins (or pairs of skeins) for socks. That's more sock yarn than I thought I had. 
2. A skein of Schaefer Anne and 3 skeins of Heirloom Argyle; about 625 yards or each. That's too much for a pair of socks but probably not enough for two pair of socks. What else do you do with 625 yards of fingering weight yarn?
3. 1 skein of Lorna's Lace Helen's Lace in Forest (1250 yards), 3 skeins of Misti Alpaca lace in black (1311 yards), 1 1/2 skeins of Alpaca with a twist Fino in Ruby Slippers(about 1300 yards), 1 skein of Misti Alpaca handpaint lace in Blues in the Night (875 yards) and 2 skeins of Wooly West Nordic Lite in Lilac (950 yards). That's less lace weight than I thought I had. 
4. 4 skeins of Alice Starmore Scottish Fleet in Sea Green. This was for Jade Starmore's Scapa. I like the pattern but I don't like the color. It's too washed out for me.
5. 2 skeins each of Art Yarns Royal Silk (fingering weight) and DK Merino in the same colorway. This was for scarf. I'm not enthused about the pattern but I don't know what else to do with it. Probably should've put this in the donate pile but I really like the color.
6. 2 skeins of Lang Jawoll sock magic. Technically it's sock yarn but I bought it for a scarf. 
7. 1 skein of Sheep Shop Yarn Company Sheep 3 yarn in olive green. I have no idea what I bought it for  but I've got 325 yard, which sounds like socks to me.