Prequel - WIP Appeal

Between the stash and FOs are WIPs. In the spirit of Knitty's upcoming 2nd Annual Flash Your Stash Day on April 1, 2006, I thought it would be fun to share my WIPs (works in progress) and offer this challenge to all you great puzzle solvers.
How many WIPs do you think are pictured here?
Bonus question. How many months/years will it take me to finish them all? And for the elite Mensa types, how many other projects will I start before that time?

Guess

What the knitting...? Well, no. It's crochet.
Stop laughing! Guess what it is.
No, it's not a denture cozy. Guess again.
No, it's not a fiber representational construct of a horse shoe.
Third time's a charm... come on...
Alrighty then.
It was my sincere, but misguided attempt at a single crochet square. Clearly, there was no point in continuing past the third row. Fiddle-dee-dee. Tomorrow is another day and I shall try again.

From Small Scale to Large Scale

Working on a baby-sized sweater successfully has given me the courage to dig out the various pieces of this jacket that I began last summer. Had no clue how to sew in sleeves and just dropped the project until last week. My gauge- smadge attitude had indeed caught up with me. My sleeves were only half the needed width because of my yarn sub. I had to do math and everything to get this right. Pout, pout. Frogged and knitted the sleeves again. Even learned the mattress stitch for seaming. Tedious, but the results were great once I got the hang of it.

Had the bright idea to make some buttons. Lo and behold, my craft stash had the perfect shade of periwinkle clay to make these calla lily toggles and pin. Oh, yes! I'm gonna wear this to the Philly Flower show on Wednesday. Oh, yeah! By the way craft novices, it is NOT a good idea to multitask when you have jewelry in the OVEN. My first batch turned chocolate brown. But you didn't hear that from me...

A Keepsake for the Little One

Another precious addition to the family has arrived and I wanted to make him something really special. Shhh. Don't tell him about the photo. I still have to wash and block this. A heritage sweater in Pan-African colors, with an Africa intarsia on the back. Wooden buttons from M&J Trimmings in Manhattan. The Frog Tree yarn is like buttah! 100% merino wool. Yup, I'm doing a test swatch before the real thing hits water!
Confession, this is gift attempt number two. The first was a pant and sweater. Cousin Randall, Jr. was growing too fast for my knitting skills. So no time to waste. I'm signing off to launder now.

Three Sketches a Week

Thought it would be nifty to do three sketches per week to see if I could come up with a design or two that I could execute. This is the first attempt using Tahki's Bongo yarn in the olive colorway. I've since blocked it and shortened the tassels a wee bit.
Wore this on a casual Friday at the office, but was terribly self-conscious. Had my inner Flintstone gotten the best of me or was this an OK thing to wear in public? One thing is for sure, I was one warm woman on the way home. The winter wind was merciless!

Alright, there is another finished object waiting in the wings that I would love to post. Only got buttons for it today and haven't taken care of that yet. So tomorrow I must post again...