The Week Nov 21 – Nov 27

Last week’s goals with progress indicated:

• Make recommended changes to the pattern for the Gir hat & scarf, including (reluctantly) instructions for using DPNs.
• Figure out how to organize test knits for both, including what expectations to set.

I don’t know why I have a procrastination block with these two things, but I do. Maybe I should break them down into smaller tasks.

• Finish Henry’s hat & attach scales after the fact, if at all; it’ll be easier to scatter them on the finished hat than to scatter as I knit.

• Keep working on the fronts for the Green Wood Cardi. I had to rip back a section of 6 stitches in the button band and add a button hole because I wasn’t paying attention & knit 1/2″ past where the buttonhole should’ve been.
• Add another custom knit listing to The Yarn Office. Added a custom knit listing for the Infinite Wave Cowl.
• Start getting the house ready for the onslaught of people coming for Thanksgiving, which means cleaning. Ugh. I can’t take credit for all the cleaning; Ky & the boys pitched in, too.

I also:

• Delivered the Scale Mail Mitts to the friend who commissioned them (and had lunch at a new soup & salad & sandwich place). She gave them to her son for his 16th birthday and he loves them! Hurray!
• Tweeted the new shop listings from @TheYarnOffice with appropriate hashtags & all, but need to do more to promote the shop and/or my patterns on Ravelry. Maybe belated test knits for some already published patterns? And regular (but not spammy) tweets? I should really read the Tara Swiger book on marketing that’s sitting in my to-be-read pile.

This week I will:

• Make the edits on the Gir hat pattern and consider whether to add DPN instructions or to generalize them so they work for circulars or DPNs.
• Investigate other people’s calls for test knits and gather ideas for my own request template.
• Eat lots of turkey & stuffing & pumpkin pie, wash lots of dishes & sheets (at least 6 in-laws are visiting for Thanksgiving), stay out of any turkey-related arguments (there’s always at least one).
• Relish spending time with my family; my husband, who flies to another state for work, is working from home this week and my oldest son is home from college, which means I have a bonus!daughter (his girlfriend; they’re inseparable).