2014

Well, I wrote all of six posts in 2014.  At the beginning of the year I stopped writing posts for this blog, but I also stopped knitting for a while.  I really hadn't noticed this until I went searching through Ravelry for the projects I worked on in 2014.  I'm not quite sure why this is.  I don't remember feeling too off.

But, to get back on the bandwagon, I thought I'd write a little recap of what I happened in 2014.

Probably the most "news worthy" thing was that Don and I tied the knot in May.  It was a very small ceremony with just our immediate families attending.  Neither of us were interested in a fairy tale wedding, so this is what we chose.  I of course made my own "something blue."  (Though I didn't bother to find a "something borrowed," so it was just an excuse to knit a pretty blue thing.)  The pattern I used was Beth King's Henslowe, a pattern I've admired for quite a while.  You can find my scanty notes on the project here on Ravelry.

I frogged an entire sweater!  I finished AND decided I hated the Cocoa sweater I mentioned here, way back in October 2013.  I detailed a few reasons why on my Ravelry page for the project.  Now, with the same yarn, I'm working on the Beach House Pullover from the Summer 2010 edition of Interweave Knits.  I'm knitting it in the round, and all is well so far.  I'll dedicate a post to it some time soon.

Maybe you recognize these beauties?  They're a pair of Spatterdash Wristwarmers that I knit as a wedding present for my sister, and I finally added buttons to them!  It was so, so easy to put the buttons on, and I waited so, so long to do it!  Now they're done and gone, and I don't have to look at them all sad and buttonless any more!

 Look!  Not knitting!  I probably hadn't crocheted anything more than a stabilizing neckline since I was nineteen, but I picked it back up again this year.  I'm quite unimpressed with modern crochet patterns, but feel inspired to make up my own.

When I started knitting again at the end of the year, I knit eight holiday presents.  You can see all of them here on Ravelry.  I'm most proud of the two cabled hats, this Antler Hat and a Ribs 'n Cables Beanie.  I didn't intend to knit two cabled hats back to back, but the Antler Hat came out too small for my boss, so I had to quickly come up with another present.

It's been a pretty decent year!  I've knit exclusively stashed or thrifted yarn.  I fell off the bandwagon of not buying new yarn recently, and then again this past week (which I've yet to photograph).  If I'm being honest I probably have two years worth of yarn stashed away.  Which is fine, because I looooove yarn.

What's to come this year?  Hopefully more blogging.  Definitely more knitting!  And I've tentatively started a 365 photo challenge.  So stay tuned!  You might see more of me here!