I’m always so giddy and inspired after Fiber School that I can’t wait to get started on an exciting new project. Usually I spin around in circles for a few weeks and get nothing done and lose all my good good motivation.
So this time, I decided to make a list of all the projects I want to do, so I don’t forget them. Then I decided that I should dutifully dispatch (finish or discard) all the UFOs in my life before starting anything sexy and new.
Here’s the list, UFOs bolded.
Exciting Projects:
Use the indigo vats (this got to cut the line since it’s time-sensitive)- T-shirt rug
- Bags from Yarn School castoff weaving
- Looped long rigid heddle bag
- Fractal spin from last year’s Plyaway
- Fractal spin started at February Spinsters
- Alpaca batt spin started ages ago
- Dyed fiber packaged and stored
- Twyla’s bed
- UFO Birdy’s sparkle sweater
- UFO tiny Scout cardigan
- UFO sideways cardigan
- UFO Mitered rainbow throw
- UFP Planned Parenthood mitten pattern
- UFO Mystery striped forgotten raglan
- UFO Binge throw
- UFO Stash cardigan
- UFO baby seat cover
- UFO bacon pillow
- UFO funnel neck
- UFO Yarn School sampler
- UFO garter cardigan
- UFO Billy socks
- Unravel and make sleeves on Birdy match sweater bigger or lose the stupid lost weight I gained back
- Mend Birdy’s matching sweater so she can actually wear it before she outgrows it
- Mend Little House dress Georgie started to eat
- Matching Tula Pink octopus dresses for me and Birdy
- Ditto Tula Pink chipmunk
- Ditto Tula Pink birds and bees
- Ditto 1Canoe2 chicken/egg
- Ditto 1Canoe2 beehive
- 1Canoe2 quilt
- Tula Pink quilt
- Amy Butler quilt
- 1Canoe2 bloomers for Birdy
- Neutral fat quarter bloomers for Birdy
- Rando mix & match fat quarter bloomers or tops for Birdy
- Dewberry quilt (this is starting to look like I’m a quilter; sometimes I get confused during good sales & think I’m a quilter and end up with a shitload of precuts, which is the case here)
- Try to revive them with color remover & washing soda when it warms up again.
- Overdye ugly handspun
- Freeform tapestry picturey thing
- SampleIt loom carry bag
- Experiment wet felting those batts leftover from Felt School
- Dye up all the white and light brown fiber odds & ends
- Batts to fill the batts case
- Locker hooked roving rug
- Top woven rug
- Shaggy locks rug
- Rug warped to color shift
- Pygora process & trade with Laura
- Process all the old fleeces accumulated in my closet
- Back and hang curtain in office
- Prune surviving apple trees and remove nuisance and dead trees
- Back door curtain
- Back window curtain
- Beer kit!
- Wine kit!
- Yardstick growth chart for T
- More wool balls
- Silk rug
- Dyed sheet rug
- Simple Modern Sewing ruffle jacket
- Simple Modern Sewing wrap blouse
- Simple Modern Sewing linen pants
- Simple Modern Sewing skirt
- Do a sewalong
- New feminist mittens
- last PP mitten variation
- Giant pile of sheets that need new elastic
- Hoop and shower curtain
- Carding videos
- Cricket planner stickers
- More bulky socks for dad
- Eyelet yoke sweater
- Something with that unspun noro stuff
- Cardigans and cardigans and cardigans
- Hot tub time machine!
- Optimize kitchen drawers
- Optimize pantry
- Handknits repair kit (organize project remnant yarn)
- Year 2 book
- Year 3 book
- Year 4 (gulp!) book
- Twyla’s deep thoughts book
- Twyla’s art line in my office
So my Big Plan is to do a project a week. I’ve got to finish or otherwise dispatch UFOs before I start new projects. When I’m in Houston, I’ll bring a project with me.