#i bought ONLY one skein of yarn

[sergle]

I think I'm going to make a temperature blanket this year

#generally people would plan for this earlier. but. I only JUST thought of it last night #I'm considering like a mood blanket / mental health blanket or whatev instead. one of those alternate concepts #but I FEEL LIKE categorizing my mood / mental health day by day would do something to me #and I don't really want to tell on myself that hard. showing off the finished blanket and ppl going oohh... there's a lot of this color! #what mood are these two colors for! #and i'm gonna have to crumple up my color key chart and eat it before they can find out #idk maybe I'll still try that way. but temperature just feels more like. yeaahahhhhh go with the flow buddy #I bought a ton of yarn recently bc there was a black friday sale and I was grabbin skeins for $2 so I shouldn't really need to do shopping #maybe pick up another color or two. but I can probably just bust out my own stash I already have #sergle.txt #crochetposting

[unopenablebox]

oh thank GOD, someone else has finally posted a swatch of the silk yarn i bought last week in a very recently released colorway with no online presence. i was too obsessed with specifically that color to settle for a different one but it was vaguely stressful wondering if it's actually way more variegated than it looks in the skein

but at least based on the swatch it is doing the "luminous-from-subtle-tonality spun gold" thing i wanted. so that's good

#sorry that im posting obsessively about my various yarn purchases. either i'm having one of my Moods or i'm specifically just #on some kind of the-end-of-bargaining-committee-has-a-timeline high #box opener #metallic gold silk yarn is just irresistible catnip to me lately. it's so brave that i only bought one skein of it #i have like five people's metallic gold shawls in my rav favorites‚ presumably just to remind myself? that i like it? #inscrutable.

[typheus]

yarn sale, i got over 40$ of yarn for only 12 👍😭😭😭✌️ 💚💚💚

#other #t talks #going back tomorrow to get even more yarn #that shit was a dollar each!!! #some were even less #got 1 skein only 50cents #i kept my cool tho #stuck to the master plan (no unplanned single skeins) #only bought sweater quantities + some i want to accent the big yarns #ok i dont 100% stick to the master plan #there were some 80cent skeins that i know will be Perfect for socks tho #so it doesnt count #but tomorrow i already know what yarn i want to buy #since its going to be for a planned projects #i still dont plan to start these projects till after i finish some of the ones i already got ofc #but there in the queue now :) #cause the yarn is 1 dollar each :) #its hobby lobby btw #i dont normally shop there. but. i saw a tiktok from a crocheter saying theyre having a huge sale #n i was hoping to get some of the wool yarn before it was all gon #but alas... #still lots of options for the acrylics tho!

[angelhound]

i love buying gifts for people who dont talk to me at all

#me: this shirt is not my style but u know who would love it #someone who doesnt want anything to do w me <3 #im still going to wear it im just prepared idk #2 weeks ago i almost bought 3 skeins of yarn to knit someone a sweater that just was not nice to me #bc the colors reminded me of them #i got a second opinion on that one but no one was there to stop me today #do u think im compensating #but idk i dont do it bc i expect anything i really just b thinking wow they would like this a lot i would like them to have it #i almost believe at this point thats more mentally ill than being selfish #I think this is because I like getting gifts i can in fact be bribed and i am cheap #people buy me coffee once and im like oh ok. i am loved. nice #i dont want an apology i want u to remember what my favorite color is and knit me a sweater. yk #except i am the only one who would do this so idk how i think this is going to work the other way #no one remembers what my favorite anything is which is weird to me as someone who talks like no ones business. i be saying things a lot #my favorite color rn is powder blue. now u kno

[emilysidhe]

Since knitting was apparently trending yesterday (?), this is the baby blanket I finished while watching the 2007 BBC Persuasion. It’s for my cousin’s new baby. I still need to weave in the ends and block, but it’s basically done.

The yarn is one skein Lion Brand Mandala Baby in the Neverland color way, two skeins of Bernat Softee Baby in Flannel, and two different white baby yarns that I already had because I ran out of the first one four white stripes from the end. (Technically, this was all yarn that I already had, but only because during the first wave of Covid I knew so many people who had just had babies or were expecting that I panic-bought baby yarn the first day nonessentials businesses reopened so that I’d have enough if we went back into full lockdown. I’m still working through the stash).

People who know entrelac knitting are looking at the pictures going, “How did you get it so that every row has one side triangle instead of alternating rows that have triangles on each side with rows of only rectangles?” And the answer is that I read the instructions wrong and had a wonky base triangle at the very beginning, but I hid it in the crocheted border

No one will ever know.

#knitting #entrelac knitting #baby blanket

[morganbritton132]

First, I adore you and your brain. Second, I have a silly little ankle tattoo of a doodle (it’s a lemon man) my sister made and fully love poorly drawn lil things so Eddie’s octopus is my favorite. Third! I picked up crochet during the pandemic (the first bit lmao where I got laid off and super depressed) and it’s so therapeutic when i need to just shut down and focus on one thing because I’m stressed or overwhelmed. I’m working on coasters right now, and god they’re so much easier than the first coaster pattern I tried (that one put me off for a while). I just had a funny thought though, of when Steve gets fully into it and does what a lot of us crafters do and stocks up on yarn for future projects.

I bought a big ass show organizer for all of mine and have to restrict myself to just what fits in there

(Also I’m picturing Eddie in a wonky hat like the one I just tried to make for my sister’s cat but he’s still wearing it super proud)

At the start of the pandemic, I got a new job where I was working half in the office and half from home. I also moved out of my parents’ house so I suddenly alone all the time and to kinda cope with that, I picked up knitting. I originally tried crochet but I just couldn’t get my hands to work right, but I’ve gotten it down (at least enough to do the second row), and I agree with you. It is very therapeutic and I’m happy that it was able to help you through a rough time.

And lol, but all of us crafters are the same because I have a whole shelf dedicated to yarn I bought for future knitting (and now crochet) projects.

It’s not Steve’s intention.

He is just trying this hobby out so he can tell his physical therapist that he gave it a go and it didn’t work. Steve is not crafty or creative like Eddie, so he doesn’t need to buy all this stuff.

But he did need to buy melting chocolate, so he agreed to go when Robin asked if he wanted to go to Michael’s with her. And yeah, maybe he did pick up a new crochet hook but that’s because there’s clearly something wrong with his. What other explanation is there for why he keeps skipping stitches?

And maybe he did get a new skein of yarn, but he’s just being practical. If he’s going to make Eddie a hat than he is going to need a color that compliments Eddie’s complexion, right? He might as well get this blue too. It’s a pretty color and there’s only like, five skeins left. It could disappear forever.

Then he bought a bowl to hold his yarn but it was cute! It was shaped like a sloth. And yeah, he got the yarn winder thing. That’s just practical. And okay, well. Joann’s has magazines with patterns in them so Steve’s going to need that.

And it all kinda just snowballs until, “Babe, what the hell did you buy for a hundred and fifty dollars at Michael’s?”

Steve, surrounded by yarn in each color, “Nothing.”

Also, Eddie absolutely wears anything that Steve makes him. A fan took a picture of him buying cigarettes in a lopsided hat. Another fan took a picture of him at show where his guitar strap has a single crochet chain wrapped around it. There’s a Tiktok where Eddie is pulling his hair up with a crocheted scrunchie.

#Every crafter I know has way too much stuff for a hobby they’re going to drop in a couple weeks #eddie munson tiktok saga #eddie munson #steve harrington

[milkweedman]

It's finished ! Currently blocking, so this is the pre-blocking pictures. Hands for scale--it's a huge skein. 10.5 ounces/300 grams and 244 yards/223 meters of cabled 4 ply Icelandic, spun from roving. It's around worsted weight, and very dense.

As both singles and 2 ply it was very hairy and plasticky... as a 4 ply it's much softer and no longer plasticky, and while it doesn't look as hairy it still feels very much like human hair, which is kind of offputting, ngl.

I spilled coffee on the wool blanket (which i wove a couple years ago now, im still very happy with it) that lives on my spinning chair while skeining this up and had to wash it, and I wanted to use the eucalyn I finally bought, so I ended up giving them both a bath in it. No idea what effect that will have, but why not, right ?

Attempting to keep some tension on the skein so it doesn't curl up too much.

Anyway, I'm planning to turn this yarn into a bag for myself. I haven't yet decided on whether to knit or crochet it, I think that'll depend on how the yarn turns out once dry. I cable plied it because I want a bag with a lot of structure, and cable plying can result in very ropy yarns, which this one definitely is. Hopefully it'll be rope like enough to still have good structure even when knit, but if not I'll crochet it.

I'm kinda amazed all of that was only 250ish yards. This might be the thickest/heaviest yarn I've ever spun.

#the water was like... brown ??? it was gross #and this was after rinsing the coffee out #spinning #handspun yarn #icelandic roving

[ddejavvu]

For anyone that is thinking about buying the red heart granny square yarn - save your $10 😭 I bought it and I was so excited to try it and it SUCKS. I have to keep frogging and redoing and frogging and changing tension and frogging and changing hook size and frogging and frogging and frogging and I’ve made ONE incomplete square in the last hour. ONE. I’m only on row 4/5. If I had the receipt I’d shove it all back inside the skein and return it 😭

#mei's mail

[creativeseal]

First project of 2024 done!

I started it on December 19 - so about 16 days of knitting. During this time it’s been my only knitting project, so it got a lot of focused time.

My daughter @ladydragonkiller picked this yarn and asked me to make a mismatched pair. I ended up doing three heels, as the first one was a few rows too small, but I’m pretty pleased with how they came out!

The first picture is the closest for color.

The fiber was originally bought in May 2012 (yarn pirate - 6oz of chalcedony colorway). I don’t have any notes from when I spun it, but I remember I separated the colors before spinning two separate skeins.

Daughter is excited to wear them, and I’m super excited to be done and to see how the entire creative process played out.

#spinning #knitting #finished project #fiber arts #really pretty yarn

[comfortabletextiles]

Sooo, my last stash Tour was 2 years an 1 month ago, and I think it is a good time to do it again (no I am not procrastinating, totally not)

Spinning fodder

What left the stash:

Almost everyone on here got turned into yarn, except the pink one, that is still a roving and the the bunch of fiber in the right bottom corner. That will be plushy stuffing in the future

What stayed: I have SO MUCH of the south German Merino and linen. I'm not Shure if I'll ever be able to spin it 🤣

And what is new :)

Black mini batt with some glitter. Onion dyed batts. Ouessant/something mix, rolags by @swords-n-spindles 💛 some mohair and silk cocoons

Aaand a black white roving, 4 different colors of cotton, two braids of linen and a hand dyed super wash Merino roving

(not pictured the test sets for fine and luxury yarn)

Yarn, bought:

Most of the bought yarn is used (especially the white ones , or thrown away (dye mishap) ore only partly used.

What is still here:

This greenish yarn gets its own pic, it is so gorgeous, and I have no idea how much I have, what is in there, and what to do with it. (What you can't see is the absolute beautiful shimmer it has. There is ether some mohair or silk in it) the only thing I know about it is, it is gorgeous and my phone still sucks at portaging green

Then some hand dyed bought yarn from the phoenix socks and the socks for my older brothers family, a set for a sprang bag I bought this year, bits of yarn without much use, some cotton I bought for tablet weaving at the beginning of COVID in Europe, 100g of 4ply I also bought this year (I forgot for what, but I think I'll make a plushie with it) and some 2ply wool yarn I bought for weaving

And the yarn I bought on the Viking fair (not pictured, I'm running out of space 😬)

Now to the hand spun stuff!

What left:

Top turned into a lovely cardigan, and the bottom right green got gifted to a dear friend, bottom left is being used right now to be turned Into a hoodie

The other three are part of a very messy and warm sweater (the pink is also a Barett for my niece)

What is still there: cat yarn, Test scrabs, mini skeins (the two skeins on the bottom right are used)

What is new:

Tdf yarn from I don't know when, and all the spin along yarns so far (July still missing...)

3 skeins of south German Merino 4ply and a bunch of lace yarns I still have

Also not pictured: the steam experiment yarn and some bits and scrabs (I'm out of space for pictures)

I wasn't aware how much stuff I still have! I problay can go without buying anything for 2 years 😅😅😅 I also have way to much yarn where I don't know what to do with it...

#stash #stash tour #i should remeasure some of those skeins #stash tour 2023

[a-story-with-no-end]

How to buy yarn as a beginner crocheter

Disclaimer: I will only talk about crochet because it is what I mainly do. Some of my tipps can probably used with knitting too but I can't guarante it so crochet it is. I also rarely do big wearables so my experience with gauge swatches is limited so I didn't mention it here

"But it's only chosing some pretty colours, paying for it and than I crochet. What is so difficult about it?"

Buying yarn in itself isn't difficult but buying yarn that you can actually use can be. Because in the past I just bought whatever because "It's pretty. I want it" and now I have a stash with beautiful colours but they are all different shades. And even if I have the same shade twice they are (probably) different lot numbers so you can't just put them together. Also it's mostly 50g cotton and there is only a certain amount of headbands a single person can wear. So I sit in front of my relatively big collection of yarn and I don't know what to make and it kind of makes me feel bad. Here I am trying to stop you from making the same mistakes.

First of all you have to know what you want to make for two reasons:

1) How much do I need?

If you are a beginner you probably use a pattern so look up what it says. What yarn is recommended and how much. Most often it's counted in the weigh of the skein or just in skeins and not how much you actually use so you still might have leftovers even if you only buy the recommended amount. But I'll come back to that later.

For example: You want to make a headband and the pattern calls for 1 skein of 3/light yarn. You just go into a store and choose a colour in that exact weight maybe even the same brand and you can happily crochet with it. If you struggle to find something in store that fits your pattern just talk to the workers. If the store specializes in fiber crafts they will likely be able to help.

2) What can it do?

Just like you can't use tulle fabric to sew a functioning bathing suit not all kind of yarns a suitable for everything. While cotton yarn in general is an allrounder it's not suitable for socks since it stretches out. It's also a very heavy yarn so if you want to make a blanket (though I don't recommend it for beginner beginners) it's gonna be really heavy. Every kind of yarn has different qualities and different kind of projects it is suitable for. But that is a whole other post. Again if you are in a store and you are unsure ask the workers there if the yarn is suitable for your project.

But what do I do with the leftovers?

The question of all questions. I struggle with it as well but sometimes a kitchen scale can be very useful if you already made the project once. For example you made the headband from my example and a friend of yours really liked it. Their birthday is also coming up so you thought why not do one for them as well? But you are not sure if the yarn you have left is enough. Just get your kitchen scale and first weigh the headband and than the yarn. If you have the same amount of yarn or even better more yarn left you can easily do another one for your friend. I'd still recommend having a little bit more in case your tension is looser this time so you don't have to play yarn chicken* 😂 Also very useful for granny square projects. Weigh one square, find out how many you need, do the math and now you know how many skeins you need :D

The biggest thing is to not impulse buy yarn in the store. But if you like a yarn that you didn't plan to buy and really want to buy it just make a picture of the name and shade in the store. When you go home think about what you want/can make with it, find the right pattern and buy what you need the next time. The same thing goes for online purchases you just switch tabs and maybe sleep a night over it to make sure you actually want to do it. One or two impulse buys won't be bad but if it happens very often you might feel overwhelmed with the yarn you have but don't know how to use.

♡

*yarn chicken: Is a playful description of the crochet process when you realize that you have very little yarn left and you don't know if it is enough to finish your project. If you win yarn chicken you had enough yarn and if you lose you didn't have enough.

#crochet #crochet beginner #crochetblr #crocheters of tumblr #fiber crafts

[whoslaurapalmer]

my sweater!!!!!! is done!!!!!!! look!!!!!!! look at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

changed the colors a little so it fit my style more but!!!!! it's done!!!!!!! my gorgeous mabel sweater!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

some pattern notes --

-high key recommend the pattern, it worked up very quickly and was very easy to follow!! I've never gotten gauge to work out in a sweater and I've never done colorwork before but it worked out perfectly here and doing the trees was a lot easier than I thought it would be. like, it will look complicated. but it really, really is not. and you get 20 colorwork patterns with this pattern!!!!!!!!!! and access to videos about how to do them, too!! personally I didn't watch them but if you are someone who likes visual instruction, that is available!!!

-it took me almost a month to make? I didn't work on it every day, and some days I did lots of rows all day long and other times just a little section, depending on what else I was doing and also. giving my eyes. a break. bc I love crocheting and am very prone to. accidentally overworking my eyes. please crochet with lots of light and take breaks.

-the sweater is designed to be oversized, and if you have a sweater in this kind of style (where the shoulder line drops to form part of the sleeve), I definitely recommend measuring that sweater and comparing it to the finished measurements provided by the pattern so you know what size to make, because I usually buy sweaters between medium and extra large, and for this sweater, based on a sloped oversize sweater I already have, I made the EXTRA SMALL. and the sleeves can in fact pull over my hands.

-the total yarn needed for each size is listed in grams and yards, but the breakdown for how much of each color is needed for the different colorworks is only in grams. which can take some Math to work out. anyway, always buy a little more yarn than you need!

-I bought two skeins of each color in caron simply soft and used the most of the light purple, and didn't even use one whole skein of the dark purple, bc like autumn olive, who made the pattern, I cropped the sweater by ten rows and removed them from the dark purple section.

#now i just have to. wait.....to wear it.......because it's.......july.............. #but it's good to make your sweaters in the summer so you're READY!!!!! YOU CAN JUST PULL THEM OUT WHEN IT GETS COLDER

[godkilling]

crochet roundup post for may/june...!

I don't have a blog for crafts despite my chronic interest categorisation so I'll just post em here For Now. Apologies for anyone who follows me on twitter as I've been posting on there sporadically. I might make this a bi-monthly little roundup to help motivate me to keep pursuing projects 😊

1. Granny square blanket

First ever project! Learnt how to crochet using this pattern. I bought a "crochet beginner" kit from an Etsy shop which included four yarn colours, a hook, a darning needle and an information booklet. I was supposed to get access to a facebook group which had tutorial videos but they were slow in adding me to the group, so I ended up turning to video tutorials on YouTube, with the one I used in the final project being BellaCoco's basic granny square.

Once I'd started making squares (upon squares upon squares) I decided that I wanted to make a patchwork blanket from the completed squares, rather than making one large granny square until it was blanket sized.

To this end, I bought two skeins of brown dk yarn (alas, in ever so slightly different colours 🫣) from a local fabric shop and crocheted an extra row around every. Single. Square (This took fooooorever). Then proceeded to sew the individuals into long rows of squares, which I eventually sewed together into the full blanket. I used a whip stitch to connect my squares which left the front side with a really pleasing ridge between the individual squares!

2. Alyssia Creates sun/moon/star squares

High on my granny square success, I wanted to pick up the project that originally inspired me to pick up crochet (I reblogged the post in question earlier today) I decided to attempt a slightly more complicated square design. I had to learn how to make a magic circle for this design and I picked up a bunch more interesting stitches, like a treble and half double crochet. This was also really good in terms of learning how to effectively change colours in a more seamless manner. I've made these designs in a few different colour schemes now; I'm planning on using some of them as coasters and stitching a few of them together to make dice bags for DND!!

3. Mushroom lighter holder

Does what it says on the tin. This ended up super messy but it was a successful attempt at a 3d object! Made for my lovely pal Jess! This was fun as I got to do some creative sewing to make the little spots on the mushroom head and I had to sew the strap into the body of the mushroom. Would make again and attempt to tidy up the stitches. Would also try a different pattern to see if I could make one to better fit the lighter in question. I think the design I ended up using was for chapsticks originally, so though I did amend it and add a few more rounds to the body and cap, it could be better proportions-wise!

Upcoming projects include a runner for our living room coffee table based on this granny square pattern (how gorge is it... I've bought new yarn for this project and I'm really excited to try a different brand for the first time...! And to finish up the sun/moon bags and a more finished version of the lighter pouch. After that... Who knows! If anyone would like me to send them some little items PLEASE let me know! I'd love to have a reason to crochet more and there are only so many people in my life who I can gift this stuff to. Ok thanks for reading!! Cya in a few months 😊

#not sure i actually want this in any tags lol #so guess ill type up some tags #then i can #eventually tag #it as #crochet #hehe

[avo-kat]

today i did the legs and one ear... but unfortunately i ran out of yarn for the second ear and tail.

so i unraveled two legs

amputation :(

doing a magic ring with 4 stitches with fluffy yarn is soooo much fun yall

tail done!

still one ear missing. but if i undo the last two legs ill have no yarn left for the legs even if i do the paws in the creme one. sigh.

and all the stores are sold out of this brown colour. rip.

i knew i gambled when i only bought one skein

#avos tagebuch #avos crochet

[rainbowjay20]

Arts &Crafts were always a thing in my family. Both Grandmothers were artistic. My Mom's mother painted. Very well.

My Dad's mother threw pots. Like she had a wheel and kiln in the basement in the 50's. I don't remember much about that or doing art with my Dad's mom. I do have some of her art somewhere. Some holiday decorations and all that, but it is properly put away.

But with my Grandmom Beautiful, (that's what we called her, my cousins and I) we were always doing a project. I took a painting class with her at the local college. That's where the beach painting that's in my front room came from. I entered it in a festival in high school and won third place.

(Top two: Grandmom's Bottom:Me)

We also did other crafts too. Rubbing stamping. Clay. Reverse painting on glass in a class at A.C. Moore's (A.K.A. A.C. Morons but only when we spent too much money!) I also never had a store bought costume and a few clothes that were handmade too. (At the time, however, there was in my head, too fine a line between making clothes because you wanted to and making clothes because you had to. We financially fell somewhat to the red sign of the line.) I did have some ideas for dresses and clothing but I had trouble getting what was in my head onto the paper. No one had ever formally taught me figure drawing, so I'm suprised I even managed something human looking! My mom was handy with a pattern but without she couldn't sew much without one.(There was the ice cream cone...)

I did learn cross-sitch and crochet though. I was good enough at cross-stitch that I remember selling a large Bug Bunny pattern to one of my classmates.(prior to Etsy!) I'm sure I way undervalued it. (This looks like the one I remember doing. About 10x 14?)

I also crocheted. I would have learned knitting but my mom didn't know how. There was a simple reason. She was left handed. No one she knew was able to teach her backwards. LOL This was prior to the internet and everything being on YouTube. Now if there is something you want to learn, just Google or Youtube it! She did know how to quilt but I stayed away from the sewing machine.

My Dad used to say, I told you that to tell you this.

In the process of cleaning the house, I have been coming across old art projects half finished. I don't think I have ever finished a full blanket. I did a baby blanket once.

Here are the ones I found.

I decided to try and finish them. I may run into problems matching dye lots but I have to run out of these skeins first. So I started with the rainbow(jay!) blanket. I decided to unroll the skein a bit so it would be easier to work with... It went all over the place. Then it got horribly tangled. I've been untangling for four straight days.

I finally figured out what part of the problem was. I was getting these snags. I was pulling and it would stick. The yarn wasn't knotted just stuck together. It was this.

Frayed pieces of excess yarn. I think I may have to unspool the other skein as well before I start working on it to avoid getting caught on those tangles. I'm wondering if they were there when I bought the yarn or if the yarn was just sitting too long.

We shall see what comes of this.

If. I. Ever. Get. This. Damn. Yarn. Untangled.

*sigh*

#art #arts and crafts #craft #craftwork #handiwork #sewing #crochet #blankets #makers #creating

[redheadgleek]

2023 in review

Milestones: 10 years since I completed fellowship and became an attending; 10 years since I moved to Oregon.

Places visited: Hawaii in February with my parents and sister; Yellowstone and Grand Tetons in July with my whole family, with a few days down in Utah; Iceland in September with J; Arizona a couple of times to see my niblings; Seattle for a few weekends.

Games played: Settlers of Catan, Dutch Blitz, Cover Your Assets, Codenames, Exploding Kittens, Zombie Kittens, Happy Salmon, Trails, and Dragonwood. Abandon All Artichokes was also very shortly abandoned and Tacocat was not as entertaining as hoped.

Puzzles completed: 2 (one Karin mostly did, and I just threw down a few pieces).

Movies watched: Wakanda Forever; Return of the King (in the theater in April); Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (terrible movie); Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (excellent movie); Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (stop making want to give up chicken!); Red, White, and Royal Blue.

TV shows watched: Battlestar Galactica (all but the last season because I don’t want it to end), Shadow and Bone season 2 (I am so mad that it was canceled), Doctor Who specials, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Great British Bake-Off, Heartstopper season 2 (and let’s be real, lots of season 1 again as well), Lockwood & Co (I think I still have the last episode to watch), Tom Jones (PBS), Good Omens season 2, Schmicago (so so good).

TV shows watched with @lucy8675309: The Mandalorian; Ted Lasso season 3; Star Trek: Picard; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; Loki season 2; Fringe (we’re on season 4 and I love it so much). We started to watch the second season of Our Flag Means Death, but it was taking us away from Fringe, so it’s on the back burner.

Books read: 128 (!!!). Here’s a link to my storygraph account. I’ll do a separate sum up.

Audiobooks listened to: 13.5. My hope had been to do one per month, and Jonathan Strange took at least 3 months to finish, so I’m surprised I made it, but I did have a long road trip to Yellowstone, where I listened to 3 different books on the way there and back. (Carry On is the 0.5 – I listened to 2/3rd of it on the plane ride down and wanted to finish it by Christmas so switched over to the ebook).

Musicals/Plays watched: Moulin Rouge: the Musical (the movie is so much better); Ain’t Too Proud; My Fair Lady; Choir Boy; Hairspray; A Midsummer’s Night Dream; Six; Tina: The Tina Turner Musical; Les Miserables; Waitress (in the movie theater).

Concerts attended: Theo Katzman in April; Vienna Teng at The Triple Door in Seattle in August.

Music listened to: The Riversitter by Vienna Teng, Prayer for the Broken by Naya Rivera, multiple hours of classical music while visiting my parents.

Medical conferences attended: 2, one virtually, one in Phoenix, in August in 115 heat.

Medical conferences where I gave a presentation: 1 on a specific consideration on organ donation (the reason why I was in Phoenix in August).

Number of lectures given: 5 including to the NW Internal Medicine Society.

Nights spent in the hospital because my driveway too icy/snowy to get home: only 3!

Knitted projects: Wisteria scarf (a Christmas present that I finished in January); Anne, Diana, and Gilbert dolls were finished in the spring (only took me 2 years); Orchid and Gold Poppins scarf, Grandpa sweater (my first real sweater!), 3 scarves for Christmas (which are in various stages of finished and need to be mailed).

Number of skeins of yarn bought: … Just enough for a few more dolls and a sweater or two, and some Icelandic yarn and some yarn for my mom…

Notable fails: the annular solar eclipse (too cloudy), parenting succulent plants (3 needed the Plant Hospital, 1 is still in the Plant ICU), summer flirtations.

House repairs: every board on my 32×24 foot deck was replaced. I still have the two lower decks and the back stairs to tackle.

Visits to the beach: only once in June. Must be rectified in the new year.

#2023 #end of the year