With Covid being front and center for over nine months, it certainly helped my knitting mojo. I don't cook or bake, so my thoughts turned to knitting, and here is what I accomplished.
Socks - 3 pairs (two of them larger them my foot)
Sweaters - 9, yes 9. That has to be a record for me, and no baby sweaters in the lot.
Shawls and Wraps - 3
Cowls - 2
Dishcloths - 11
Poncho - 1
Let the knitting begin for 2021!
One journal for sure is that I will be using my Thoughts journal that I bought a year ago at Walmart for my knitting journal.
What kind of planner do you use? What kinds of things are you planning on for 2021.
These are my most liked posts on Instagram for 2020. Funny how six of the pics duplicated three items.
Left to right, top to bottom:
Dotted Rays
Dotted Rays
Rock-It-Tee
Turtle Dove II
The Weekender
Tea Leaves
Rock-It-Tee
The Weekender
Retirement Clock
How are you all doing? Are you ready for a new year?
Despite everything that 2020 has brought, some good things have come out of it.
Retirement, more at home time, close friendships developing via Zoom, Instagram, texting and lots of Knitting! I would have never had that if there had not been a pandemic.
In the last few days of 2020, I am going to do some random posts, things I am noodling on for the new year, 2021, weather reports for the next couple of days include some snow, so you know I'll post weather pics and finish up with my the tally of what I knit in 2020!
Christmas Day - Don't you love how we are standing in height order?! And yes, compared to the 6'7" Tall Guy, the over 6 ft Baby Boy B and one of our daughter-in-laws, me at 5'4 is the shortest of all.
Christmas is just four days away. Can you believe it? As a kid, I couldn't wait, but then every kid says that, don't they? I'm still excited, and tonight, after sunset, hopefully, we will be able to see something amazing in the sky!
But, for today, let's catch up on my two Advent Calendar projects.
The Cozy Knitter Socks are coming along, but with just five days left, I do not see where I will have a whole pair done and ready to wear Christmas Day, so maybe they will be New Years socks instead.
About a week ago, I stopped knitting on my Adventurous Wrap by Ambah O'Brien out of the Sun Valley Fiber Advents. What happened was that I opened up the first of what I knew was going to be five days of shades of gold. In keeping with my pattern, they would have been right next to the blues and I just was not feeling that.
So, I opened the rest of the Advents to see where we were going. 😩
I decided after talking to several knitting friends to just stop knitting on the wrap and use the Advent for something else at a future date.
Which I did, until, I received a new top as a Christmas gift from a friend. When I opened the gift, I remarked that wouldn't it be nice if I knit a shawl to go with it. In my mind, I thought I would check my stash/personal yarn shop and see if I had anything to go with it, and if not, it would be an ideal time to support my local yarn shop.
Then, while in the shower (where I do my best thinking), it hit me! Hmmm, I need to check the start of my Advent wrap, I think those colors might just go with it.
Stay tuned.
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I couldn't show this until it was opened because I was afraid, my Roomie, Debbie would inadvertently read this, but now I can.
This was her Hanukkah/Christmas present that I delivered to her.
A little gift for you if you have a serger or a sewing machine with a rolled edge.
Happy Sunday!
I thought I would catch you up on one of my Advent Calendars that I have been doing this year. This is the last few days of the Sun Valley Fibers Advent Calendar. If you remember from last week, I chose the Paper Roses color way based on this photo.
Before I could knit on my new Advent Socks you saw earlier this week, I needed to finish my socks out of the Shirley Brian Deconstructed Fade Sock yarn that my Roomie, Debbie gave me earlier this year. (I needed the needles)😉
In typical pjknits fashion, I had made a plan a week or so ago to knit a certain amount each day, in order to be finished before December 1st. See planning does help!
And all set to go for Christmas for the grandkids are some cute lamb scarves that I knit just for the fun of it.
These were all a quick knit and fun! The yarns are so soft and snuggly that it was a dream to feel it after it came off of the needles!
Off to wrap them, have a great weekend!
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When I opened Day 2's package, I was a bit disappointed. It was another purple.
I think I might know where this is going! Stay with me.
And tomorrow, brings the start of a couple of Advent Calendars, I am dying to open and get started.
The first is mini skeins from Sun Valley Fiber and is going to be a Ambah O'Brien wrap, I believe. I will know when I open the first one tomorrow.
I am super stoked about both of these Advents, stay tuned in the next few weeks to see the progress!
This ThanksKnitting weekend, I am putting a pause on my regularly scheduled knitting, and knitting on a Hospice Shawl for our local Hospice Home in Peoria. It is just my way of being mindful, with everything that is going on in the world, the Hospice Home patients are still in need of love and comfort.
