What the WIP?

One of the things I seem to always do at the end of a year, going into a new year is to take stock of all of my WIP's (Works in Progress). What projects am I carrying into the new year to work on? Do I still like them? Do I want to finish them? Are they languishing? If so, why? Things like that.
So in that spirit, I think it is time to figure out what all I have on the needles at the end of this year and what should stay, what should go and go from there.

I will try to include pictures where appropriate - eeep!

1. Sockhead hat for me
2. Sockhead hat for AW
3. 2 Unfinished baby bibs (just need seaming, go figure)
4. Baby Vertebrae for EH
5. Birthday Baby Cardigan
6. Warm Heart Baby Vest
7. Longline Cardigan for Me (handspun sweater)
8. Slinky Scarf
9. Road to Home 3rd sock
10. Fenweh Socks (Inverness colorway)
11. Coddiwopple Socks
12. Rendezvous Socks
13. My Very Own Sock Design
14. Skyline Socks
15. Raven is the New Black Socks
16. Ankle socks that have a too-tight bind off
17. Blue Rose City Rollers
18. A myriad of sock tubes in various stages of completion

The sad thing is that the larger portion of these items have been on the needles longer than just this past year. I just didn't get much knitting done this year - some hats, mitts, cowls, and a couple of sweaters for L. but not nearly as many things or as much progress as I have done in previous years.
The hard part is deciding what I want to devote more time to and what I want to just frog and move on from. There are so many things on my list that I want to get to & create that it can be difficult to devote that finishing time to old projects. But on the other hand, I hate the idea of frogging something that has a lot of time put in on it because it feels like that time was then wasted. For the moment I don't think anything will hit the frog pond. I'm such a weird mix of process & product knitter. Which are you?

In addition to these projects that are on the needles, I have a couple floating around in my head that I would really like to work on. In general these are included in my goal list for 2020.

• I purchased the yarn to make a sweater for L. I made multiple sweaters for her last year but she's a kid so she grows quickly. I would like to make her the Fiona by Novel Reed. It is a fun sweater that is made of cotton so that it mimics your favorite pair of jeans in that way that they are just comfortable to throw on any time.
• I also have a pair of socks for L that I'd like to get to. She loves to dye yarn and did an experiment with a sock blank that we want to see how it knits up. That has been here waiting for quite a while.
• A couple of design ideas are floating around in my head and I would like to play with them. Perhaps I could create a pattern or two and upload them here on the blog.
• And I really want to knit through the baby designs book I posted about the other day. There are quite a few items in there that are just adorable.

My official 2020 knitting goals list at the moment is:

1. Knit from the baby knits book.
2. Knit socks for me.
3. Knit L's socks from her sock blank.
4. Knit my handspun sweater.
5. Knit Lil's cotton sweater.
6. Work some colorwork projects.
7. Try steeking.
8. Knit an aran weight sweater from my BMFA purple yarn.
9. Choose & Complete Make, Bake, Sew, Grow items early.

Try, try, try again...right?

Another year has come and gone and so here I sit contemplating my focus for the new year. For some reason, it has been put on my heart to revive this blog (what?!) and to try to utilize it for tracking my knitting.
The past year has been hard on my knitting progress with all that has happened. So perhaps reviving the blog will also revive my knitting mojo! I have so many friends with new babies or babies on the way that I am hoping to get a lot of baby knitting in soon. So much so that I purchased a new book full of baby patterns even though I had destashed a ton of knitting books at the beginning of the year. Crazy-sauce!
This is the book - it has so many cute baby patterns!

I may have gone a little overboard the first time I looked through the book. I have already picked out yarn for many of the patterns in it. I have made one of the bib patterns multiple times and have one of the cute sweaters cast on as well. Hopefully, I can get some decent pictures of some of it soon and post them.

In addition to baby knitting, I am also hoping to get back to some of my sock knitting and maybe get my handspun sweater moving along as well. So stick around. I have come up with some knitting, spinning & possibly design goals for 2020 and popped them in on the left side of the blog. Feel free to keep me honest and help me stay on track accomplishing some creating!!