At the end of every year I try to reflect on what I have accomplished that year. Did I achieve the goals that I had set? Did I accomplish all that I wanted to do in the past year? As I did my reflections this year I noticed that I wanted to have more accountability. There were many things that I started and then everything just fizzled out. There wasn’t that accountability!
I decided that 2022 was going to be the start of becoming more accountable. In my scripture study the accountability would be found in how I taught early morning Seminary. In my journal keeping the accountability would be in a daily reminder with hints on what to write about for the day. In my knitting and spinning life, the accountability would be found here on the blog.
With accountability in mind, I took a picture of most of the WIPs I could easily find.
I didn’t count how many bags were there. I did find some bags that were left over yarns from completed projects which have been put into the partial skein bin. I did put away many, many needles that were found all over the place. I also ripped out a couple of projects that I knew I would never complete. That being said, there are still many projects in this pile that I would like to complete. This is where the blog will come in–I will report my progress on projects at least weekly this year. I want to have a record of what I am completing.
From the pile of WIPs, I took one of the projects that I am focusing my time on. A pair of socks.
For the first time ever I ordered yarn from Freckled Whimsy in her 2021 Advent yarn. I thought I would get these socks done by Christmas but that wasn’t to be. I did cast them on approximately December 4, but they didn’t see much work until December 31 when I picked them back up. I decided that these were what I was working on while watching the college bowl games. I finished the first sock yesterday and am now on the 10th stripe of the second sock. I am using Knitologie Super Sock (Ravelry) in the colorway Tuscan Sun for contrasting cuffs, heels, and toes. These will go in the gift basket from one of the kids or their spouses.
I was lucky enough to get a Daedalus Sparrow in one of the December updates, so I have now added an electric wheel to the herd. I have spun one complete bobbin and started the second. This yarn will be a two-ply as I like the way the colors look in a two-ply variegated colored skein. I think that this yarn will become the colorwork for a hat, but I am not 100% sure yet.
I completed 23 hats this year as gifts the grandkids for Christmas. I used the Thorpe (Ravelry) hat pattern and then added the patterns. I tried to make each hat different. I used Red Heart Heat Wave yarn as the base color in colors Seaweed, Beach Ball, Bikini, and Blue Sky. The yellow and gold for the charted parts was an Encore yarn in Light Yellow and Daffodil. I know that the hats were well received by some of the kids as I got pictures showing the grands wearing them. I then knit two more of this pattern. One for my mom and one for my aunt. They go out walking every day and Mom has said that she wished for an earflap hat for her walks.
Mom’s hat is the one with the green charted pattern. Her hat has a double layer of yarn in the earflap section. She did say that if the wind was blowing hard she needed to put her hood up, but her ears remained toasty the whole time.
What are you knitting on? What are you planning for this year? I am excited to see what 2022 will bring. May you have peace, warm needles, and lots of yarn.
Until next time, make it a great knitting day!
I am so excited to see a new post!!
Maybe your regular accountability posts will inspire me to do the same. I suffer from S.A.D. in the winter (I think the initials for this disorder is so appropriate.) Makes it hard to want to get anything done, but I have several knits that need to done already, and of course they are not, sigh, so I will try to motivate myself with your weekly posts to be more accountable as well, thanks for the motivation :).
I love all the hats you did for family, they are really pretty. Congrats on your new electric wheel. I think for me to us an electric wheel I’d need one of my bucket list items first, a drum carder so the fiber would flow more smoothly, as it is I have to stop to fiddle with the fiber off and on while I spin. Do you find it any problem?
The socks are so cute, probably looking forward to the next color makes it seem faster?
I rarely have more than 3 projects going at any one time because I find it stressful. 2 are generally long term or something with no end time when I need something mindless to work on. However I have, like I said earlier, 2 projects with end times that have come and gone and are stressing me out. Time to get them done and decompress ;).
The grands all really liked the hats. I got pictures with them in them which I always love to see. One of the mothers said that she might take one of them because they were so soft…..
I usually use prepared top with my spinning, so I am not stopping and picking out very often. I should wash some of the fiber I have around the house and use the carder to make my own batts, but that will be a project for another time.
I need to get back to only a couple of projects on the needles at a time. I get startitis pretty badly but then loose interest in the projects quickly. Hence so many projects on the go.
I love to read your posts, so the more we can encourage each other the better…….