I feel like I became more committed to and organized with my knitting in 2024. I finished 9 projects, which were smallish, but still – as a slow knitter, that’s not bad for me.
Summer at Cherry Republic socks
Easter Cake dish cloth (not pictured)
Shire dish cloth (holiday version)
Sweater for my Thanksgiving cactus
I spent much of my holiday break reorganizing the small room in my house (in the back; under the eaves, looking out into the pines) that serves as my home office, spare bedroom, cat playplen, and craft room. As I dug through the layers of flotsam and jetsam accumulated over the years, I found MULTIPLE project bags that I’d set up with various knitting projects. MULTIPLE. Some of them I’d forgotten all about.
I don’t usually like to set goals for my knitting because – again – I knit very slowly and sometimes having a set schedule of what I’m going to knit can feel restrictive and doomed to fail. However, this year I’d like to identify a few knits that I can tackle to clear out the projects bin and keep the momentum of making going.
First – finishing up my 2024 Christmas socks. I’m on the leg of the second sock so hopefully I can wrap them up in January.
I’d like to knit myself a hat for my neighborhood ‘no bad weather’ walks. Probably the Purl Soho Simple Pleasures hat. I knit one for my daughter several years ago (unfortunately now since lost) but we both really liked it.
I’m going to cast on a new set of coasters for our den – the Chocolate Bar coasters (again from Purl Soho) in some great neutral Cascade Superwash 128.
I am about to cast on the Wolop cowl with my Homespun House Advent minis!
Another pair of socks from the project bin…probably these.
And I’d actually like to knit a cardigan this year, too. I’m not much of a garment knitter, but I’ve found that a couple of good, cozy, nonfussy cardigans are missing from my wardrobe. I have thin ones that I wear to work, but I need some oversized casual ones to wear around the house to up my usual loungewear hoodie game. It’s been fizzing in my brain that I’d like to knit another garment and have a go at it. I have my eye on the Good Grandpa cardigan. It’s just the sort of vibe I need and using bulky weight, it shouldn’t be a multiple-years-long knit.
Other potentials for 2025 include finishing up my Turning Leaves socks, continuing work on my Homespun House Cozy Comfort throw and my Cozy Memories scrappy blanket, and the Cloud Mountain cowl which I bought as a kit from Fibresmith. (The Leslie Keating behind Fibresmith was an enormous blogger influence for my knitting journey way back when I was an expat living in Australia and she has gone on to do amazingly beautiful things!)
I hope to do a much better job at updating this space with my crafting progress…in the meantime, I hope everyone is dreaming big with their 2025 makes and finding lots of inspiration in the freshness of January! xoxo
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