So apparently this is going to be a yearly thing? Here’s your dishcloth for 2022. Enjoy!
It’s Nearly 2022!
Category: Knitting
The Ravelry Project Challenge
Are you all participating in the Ravelry Project Challenge this year? I’m kinda bummed I missed it for 2018 since last year it was such a struggle to keep up my knitting mojo, but since I signed up for this year, I’m really looking forward to my knitting year.
I set my goal to complete 25 projects in 2019, which shouldn’t be too difficult since I am doing a dishcloth KAL on Facebook. I’d also like to finish at least one deep stash UFO (there are a couple) and at least one of the two blankets I’m working on. Plus, I finished 2 projects while I was in Tampa!
What are you planning to work on this year? How is your 2019 Knitting shaping up?
Year in Knitting: 2018
The year-end tradition here has always been to review the things I finished knitting over the past year and maybe talk a little about my plans for the coming year. 2017 was a fantastic knitting year for me, but sadly that post went to Facebook instead of my blog. If you’d like to check those out, you can see everything on my Ravelry page (of course). Link here.
This year wasn’t as productive as last year, unfortunately. I’ve been working on one huge project and diligently avoiding three others. I didn’t even manage to finish a single pair of socks from my own KAL which I am running on Facebook! I did make a few hats, however, and a dog sweater. Mostly I knitted dishcloths. And many of those I gave away before I could take a photo or make a project page for them 🤣
All of the information for these projects can be found, of course, on my Ravelry page.
My hope for 2019, as I mentioned previously, is to spend more time knitting and less time scrolling. Maybe I’ll be able to finish my big projects! Maybe I will make more socks! Maybe, just maybe, I will actually make some knitted holiday gifts next year, instead of just saying fuck it and ordering pears for everyone lolol.
So, how was your knitting year?
Day 1: 2014 Project Round up
Happy New Year! I wish I could say that 2014 was a stellar year for my knitting, but honestly for much of the year my heart just wasn’t in it. I did do a little bit, however, and I am feeling much better about knitting in general after Christmas knitting and finishing a few things. All of the information for the pictured finished objects can be found on my Ravelry page, of course.
Not pictured is the stack of dish towels I started back in June as a kind of motivation to keep me knitting (and also to use up a bunch of scraps) which actually worked haha! I made 4 since I created the project on Ravelry and I’m probably just going to keep the project going to see how many I can make. It’s a fun pattern, quick to knit up and very portable, but my favorite part is since you are knitting in wedges, it has a lot of stopping points along the way so you can put it down any time, or decide, like often I did, to knit just one more section.
Also not pictured is the Teeny Tiny Santa I made for T’s tree this year, for which I somehow completely neglected to create a Ravelry page or even take a picture! You’ll have to rest assured it is exactly as cute as the one I made back in 2011.
So that was my knitting year. Not too horrible, I think, and I definitely got more done in 2014 than in 2013. Well. If you count the stuff that I’m not counting for this post haha. Oh well. Here’s to a great 2015!
Day 320: At last, some knitting
Check it out, I made a sweater! Maybe I am getting my groove back?
http://instagram.com/p/vc6tA3AvjX/
It’s a winter coat for my toddler! She might even get to wear it if the temps ever drop below 75° (which is the point at which I start to feel cold. Yes, I am a tender-footed Floridian now, apparently). I’m so happy with the way it turned out, even though it felt like the damn sleeves were cursed. I had more trouble with garter stitch in the round than I thought I would. Silly.
I really like how the flower turned out:
http://instagram.com/p/vc6wE4gvjz/
The details are Raveled.
Too Fast
Life marches on, as they say, and things at chez moi have been busy but fun. The Bigs have been taking a weekly nature class down in Ft. Lauderdale and T has been growing big and fast. Today she is 207 days old, or 6 months and 24 days. She is a proficient crawler and can pull herself to standing and cruise along the furniture. I’m serious. The last couple of days she has been practicing standing without holding onto anything. I anticipate walking by Christmas (or the New Year at the latest).
And finally I’ve started been knitting again. I cast on and finished this pretty shawl to throw over T’s shoulders if we ever get any cooler weather here.
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I didn’t really have much of this hand spun from last year’s TdF so basically it’s just the first half of Grandmother’s Favorite Dishcloth, knited until I ran out of yarn. It’s soft and cozy and should keep her shoulders nice and warm when those cold northern winds start to blow through and bring the temperature down below 75°. And yes that is considered cold down here. Stop laughing, it really is! Really!
Finished Objects: A Yarny Retrospective
Only 19 this year. A big cross-country move followed by weeks and weeks of debilitating nausea really didn’t lend itself to finishing many projects, although I am happy with what I did manage to finish. Catkin came out beautifully and is one of those things I should probably start keeping in my purse to cover my shoulders in stores that have the AC going full blast. Of course, baby sweaters, although I probably won’t need them, haha. Hopefully I can finish up a few more baby things (hats and socks, likely) before I deliver in the spring.
In which my dream is prophetic.
The other night I had one of those knitter’s nightmares. You know the one, where you knit and knit and knit your socks-in-progress but never make any progress on it. Imagine my horror the next evening when I settled in to work on them and realized that the damn foot is a half-inch too long (note to self: my short-row heel is two inches long, not 1.5) making them unacceptably loose and baggy around the instep. I thought about just pressing on and maybe giving these socks as a gift (I mean, after all, they are bound to fit SOMEONE), but y’all, I love these socks. Seriously, dat orange! And so today my 2 toe-up socks went from this:
to this:
(That is the superfluous half-inch waiting to be frogged.)
Clearly, I can see the future so here’s your lotto numbers: 05-11-14-20-31 / 16
Totally Random Monday
1. The alpaca handspun has been locked in a smallish box with the mini dehumidifier I ordered from amazon for several days now. Very soon, maybe even tomorrow, I can either wrap the skeins into hanks or get started knitting with them. There is much to do, what with only 149 days until Christmas Day.
2. I finished the hand spun baby sweater:
It still needs a wash, but I think I’ll call it done for now anyway.
3. I thought I might’ve had enough leftover yarn to make a cute little hat to go with it but alas:
It wasn’t meant to be.
4. Lolly has, at long last, warmed up to Snowflake enough to share the big poofy cat bed (actually a bean bag chair) with him.
As you can see, he’s rather pleased with himself.
tDf: Wrap up post
Well, I definitely did not finish the Tour De Fleece and I had hoped to. I did manage to make some very lovely yarns though, and so I am happy. All together I came in at just under 840 yards of yarn, which isn’t too shabby, actually, and once my mini dehumidifier arrives I can get that alpaca yarn dry once and for all and start spinning again. In the mean time, I finished a dishcloth:
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And started a baby sweater using my hand spun:
Oh my goodness, y’all, this baby sweater is so freaking pretty, I can’t even words.
Knitting Interrupted 
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