2023 Year in Review

Another busy year is in the books. I created a lot of patterns that have been in my queue for years! I’m a little bummed out that I didn’t knit my goal of 26 pairs of socks but I exceeded my expectations in every other area! I’m excited to dive into next year’s creative plans but more on that later.

Projects:

• 21 Pairs of Socks
• 19 Hats
• 15 Hand dyed skeins of yarn
• 13 Sewing projects
• 9 Pairs of baby socks
• 6 Misc items
• 4 Sweaters
• 2 Blankets
• 2 Shawls
• 1 Pair of mittens

Stats:

• In 2023 I completed 92 projects.
• I used 8244 grams or the equivalent of 82.44 skeins of yarn, measuring 38078.28 yards or 21.6405 miles of yarn!
• On average I used 687 grams or 3173.94 yards or 1.8 miles of yarn per month.
• I started the year with 4205 grams of yarn and I ended the year with 1810 grams of yarn.
• I purchased 1350 grams of yarn and I recycled 4499 grams of yarn from projects I had previously made but didn’t like.
• I wasn’t able to knit at all for about 6 weeks from the end of May to mid July, so I’d say that I did pretty well even though my stats are down from last year.
• I also sewed a lot more than I have in previous years!
• I have another 2000 grams of bare yarn on the way to start out next year with!

If you’d like to see my reviews from previous years please click here

Recycled Denim Square Blanket

Greetings! I am very pleased with my end results and it’s a good thing too because I have a bunch of leftover 4 x 4 squares and my mother in law just gave me several more pairs of jeans to use. So I will be starting another one soon.

It’s finally done.

6/13/2023 – 8/9/2023

Greetings! I can’t believe I finally have a successful hand sewn blanket that I made by myself with a lot of trial and error. It’s not perfect but it was a good learning lesson and it’s really warm.

Sewing FO’s

Greetings! This is probably my favorite sewing project thus far.

A little sewing

I made a denim blanket

The dog has claimed it as her own