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kaylarudbekSo shaking my head here about how I can take the same brand of yarn and wind up needing different amounts even when I am knitting the exact same pattern three times in a row with the same needles (https://www.ravelry.com/projects/kaylarudbek/dish-towels-2) first towel used over one ball of main color, second towel used exactly one ball of main color (I did have to cut the last MC section short) third towel looks like it will take more than one ball of main color. Weird.
The crafting planning for 2025 is starting already. I would like to get 103 different yarn entries out of stash this year (knitting them up, giving them away, or selling them all count as gone out of stash). Second, I would like to cut my Ravelry queue down to a manageable size as with the rate I currently am going, it would take me 90 years to get through it. Maybe this year I can manage to have three projects active at once: hard one for the living room, easy one for continuing education courses, and a sock or hat for the treadmill. This past year I had gone down to two active from my usual standard of four active at once. Having different projects at different difficulty levels is a good thing. Although I also want to finish more cross stitch and embroidery projects as well. And weaving uses up a lot of yarn in a very short time, so I should warp up the loom again. I also need to do a proper inventory of my craft books (hard copy and electronic).
I will let myself buy yarn for the Balliemore cardigan https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/balliemore and the Icelandic tree skirt https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jolaskjol but maybe I should wait until September as I have so much yarn to get through already. And yes, I did sign up for Stunning String Studio’s MKAL club for 2025 already as I like the format and their yarn and patterns. I will buy some of their yarn fairly soon as I am going to switch a short cowl/poncho into being a proper sweater (although maybe I should wait until the next club order in order to get free shipping).
Fibre space had some of the Jamieson’s yarn that would have worked for the cardigan, but unfortunately in all the wrong colors so I walked out of there with yarn for three shawls instead of one sweater. Two of the shawls will be https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/synchronicity-5 and https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pressed-flowers-3, but I need to figure out which pattern for the third one (gradient yarn in a DK weight so a plainer stitch pattern that can stand up to gradient and sparkle in the yarn)
The crafting planning for 2025 is starting already. I would like to get 103 different yarn entries out of stash this year (knitting them up, giving them away, or selling them all count as gone out of stash). Second, I would like to cut my Ravelry queue down to a manageable size as with the rate I currently am going, it would take me 90 years to get through it. Maybe this year I can manage to have three projects active at once: hard one for the living room, easy one for continuing education courses, and a sock or hat for the treadmill. This past year I had gone down to two active from my usual standard of four active at once. Having different projects at different difficulty levels is a good thing. Although I also want to finish more cross stitch and embroidery projects as well. And weaving uses up a lot of yarn in a very short time, so I should warp up the loom again. I also need to do a proper inventory of my craft books (hard copy and electronic).
I will let myself buy yarn for the Balliemore cardigan https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/balliemore and the Icelandic tree skirt https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jolaskjol but maybe I should wait until September as I have so much yarn to get through already. And yes, I did sign up for Stunning String Studio’s MKAL club for 2025 already as I like the format and their yarn and patterns. I will buy some of their yarn fairly soon as I am going to switch a short cowl/poncho into being a proper sweater (although maybe I should wait until the next club order in order to get free shipping).
Fibre space had some of the Jamieson’s yarn that would have worked for the cardigan, but unfortunately in all the wrong colors so I walked out of there with yarn for three shawls instead of one sweater. Two of the shawls will be https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/synchronicity-5 and https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pressed-flowers-3, but I need to figure out which pattern for the third one (gradient yarn in a DK weight so a plainer stitch pattern that can stand up to gradient and sparkle in the yarn)
