Besides being behind with sharing the books I’ve read, I’m also behind in sharing pictures of things that I’ve made. Let me tell you about the stuff I finished before the end of the year…
I’m sure I mentioned my mission in 2025 to make a hat every month to take over to the local shelter for the unhoused. Between October and the end of December, I made the following hats using leftovers from other projects.
First, I made inversions of the pattern called Drips by Bethany Hill.
Then, I made one inspired by a pattern called Drizzle by Amy Kate Sutherland.
I ended up making 11 total and added one in that had been sitting in the gifting box for a couple of beers. Can you tell which one it was?
Then, at the absolute end of the year, I finally completed Proserpina.
I wasn’t enthused with this project from the beginning because there were serious gauge issues. I didn’t mind the actual knitting, but true delight, even my own gauge swatches lied. The silhouette of the sweater with which I ended up is not the one I was envisioning.
Oh well - it’s wearable. I’m just worried that I will not want to wear it because of the bad juju surrounding it It probably will end up sitting in the cedar closet, mocking my knitting skills until I cannot stand it anymore, and I end up donating it. I may have done that a timer or two in the past…
I cannot see any way to “fix” it without frogging at all and just starting over. I do NOT want to do that.
Why couldn’t the issue be easier, as it was for this sweater?
I made this sweater in 2019. I found myself not wearing it because something felt off about it. I can’t find words to describe the feeling. It looked all right, but there was something about it and it wasn’t getting worn.
One day, a bolt of lightning must’ve hit me. I decided that it was too long. I frogged back the ribbing and then about two or so inches more before I knit the ribbing back and cast off. I think I like it much better.
You can tell it’s shorter now - just look and compare with the mannequin picture above.
And that’s all for now!
MK out.
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