#finish2024

Greetings dear Unravelers! We have arrived at the very last Unraveled post of 2024! Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. — Paul Theroux Welcome to my 2024 Knitting Making Review… and yes, that quote is perfect for remembering what I made this year and for doing some preparation for how I want to go next year. I had some significant failures in my knitting this year… particularly…

Greetings dear Unravelers! In a week when most of the making is likely happening in the kitchen… I do have a spot of actual knitting content to share! With a blast of wintry weather heading our way, I knew that wee Franklin would need a bigger sweater to stay warm! He is still growing in his winter coat and has a long way to go. I pulled out some handspun yarn and cast on. I used this pattern but…

Greetings dear Unravelers and happy Wednesday! This week, I reminded myself that perseverance… one stitch after another, one row after another… means completed objects. And this week, that was the balm I needed… the perseverance balm. I finished my September Socks… yes, well into October, but done is done! They need a bit of a soak which will be happening this morning so they can dry in the sun…

Greetings Gentle Unravelers! September is just flying by and I need to get my fingers in gear if I expect to get the pair of September Socks finished! While I don’t have a picture to share, I do have a few thoughts about the Jaywalker pattern… I am remembering now why I have never knit it. I cast on the “size I normally knit” and got several pattern repeats done and was quite confounded by how…

Greetings Gentle Unravelers on this most somber of Wednesday’s I am sure, like me, you all remember exactly where you were at 8:14AM EDT in 2001. Today, especially, I think of the 2,977 souls that were lost. A good day to sit in quiet meditation and catch up my stitching… I am a couple days behind this month. In an effort to not stitch olives… I am hoping these will look more flower-like as the…

Greetings dear Unraveler’s! It is the last Wednesday of August… I know. I blinked and the month was over… even with two uncomfortable days (One month without my sweet Sherman and what would have been his 12th birthday.) I think those days were worse for me because Steve is of the “no more dogs ever mindset.” Anyways, I told you this month I have been dabbling… but I don’t have a lot to show for…

Greetings dear Unravelers! I am short on sleep this week as I am staying up late to soak in every moment happening in Chicago! But all that watching means I have made some excellent headway on knitting projects! I finished my August socks with lots of time to spare and I have a nice fat bottomed Gnome close to completion! I also reached my first color “shift” in my shawl… woot! Gradual and…

Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Last Day of July! Yes, July… I am very glad to see the end of you… so very glad. For those of you counting… just 8 weeks until autumn arrives. But if you, like me, start thinking fall thoughts right after Labor Day, well… it will be here soon! (Five weeks and counting!) I would like to thank all of you for your kind thoughts, your shared sympathy, and your…