Yopping Update #52 - It's a wrap

 Well, here I am.  The wrap-up post for the Year of Projects.  The first thing I realize is I have to make a new header for next week.  Ack!!  I had better get out the paints and easel.

I did have a finish this week.  Last night I finished the Elizabeth Montagu knee high socks.  I ran out of yarn, but just found all the purples (and blues) in my stash to finish them.  It's not like I am ever going to wear them with a short skirt so only I (and now you) will know the top of the socks don't match the bottom.  

I do love them and they fit perfectly.  It was a chore sewing in the ends last night as we are in a heat wave (90 degrees +) and holding the socks to darn in the bits and pieces of yarn ends was very sticky, but I was determined to have them done for today.  So here they are:

Ta-Da!

Tour de Fleece started yesterday, but by the time I figured out what the date was it was toooooo hot to even consider spinning.  I did spin a little today before the heat climbed too high.  Luckily I was awake at 7:30am.

And now for the wrap-up. I finished all the wips on my list, and most of the projects.  The ones I didn't will all probably be the start of Year 11's list.  Or not.  You will have to wait until next week to find out.  Don't you love the suspense.  Here is my annual Yopping wrap-up in Rhyme.

Yopping in the time of CoVid-19

Who would have thought in July of last year

That a pandemic would continue to cause me much fear

Yet continue it did and through thick and through thin

I gathered my stash to knit, and to spin

Sweaters I knit, four of them in all

So much nicer than any I'd find in a mall

This past year was the year of the gnome 

I made nine, and seven found a new home

Ornaments were made to hang on a tree

little baubles and sweaters for Santa to see

Three blankets were finished, not a knit stitch in sight

New skills in crochet all done up right

I was determined to walk all winter in spite of the cold

Mitts, toque and cowl made me quite bold

I dyed yarn using Kool-aid - a first time for me

Thanks to the internet there wasn't a fee.

I had to make something of all the fleece I had spun

So a sheep breed sampler cowl was done

Four toys were made (and two given away)

This little lady atop my piano still makes my day.

A gift for my son to keep the cold at bay

Arrived thankfully just before Christmas Day.

And the socks, oh the socks, a dozen pairs in all

Worn every day through spring, winter and fall

My Aunt's hot water bottle cover I frogged and remade

To keep me warm and ensure that memories won't fade

Shawls I have many, but hey, what is one more?

Now I will always look elegant going out my front door.

I spun and I spun through two Tour de Fleeces

I think it's time I taught spinning to all my great-nieces!

Silk I spun for the very first time

and then knit a cowl with yarn as thin as a dime.

peruvian/silk blend Cowl

November was knitting the Nativity story.

All of the characters in all of their glory.

Last but not least my unfinished basket was done.  

Started two years before under the Arizona sun.

There you have it -  a year and a world full of pain

My projects and yopping have helped keep me sane.

Well that and the vaccine, shot one and shot two

Here's to a more social year for me and for you.

Thank you dear Readers from wherever you hail

Your comments always lift me up without fail.

Next week we will be on to Year of Projects 11.  Stay tuned for my list. 

Oops, I almost forgot...

Isn't this magical?

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