I love this time of year for goal setting, I’ve already written one blog post about my sewing goals for 2025, and here is the audio form for my knitting plans! This year, I want to try to be more intentional with my knitting, purposefully picking projects based on things I would like to wear or yarn I would like to use, rather than magpie-esque jumping on the newest shiny thing, be it thrifted yarn or the latest pattern release.
The Sophie Shawl above, is one of my lingering 2024 projects I want to finish. Wearing it for this picture definitely motivated me to get it done, it’s so soft and warm, and I love the colour.
The enormous gifted aran sweater I’m frogging and reknitting, as a gift from my friend Rachel, is below. I should have plenty of yarn for a sweater for myself, plus extra. I’m planning on holding the yarn double with Drops Kidsilk.
The experimental glove, made with leftover tapestry yarn from my Heirloom Quilt Cardi, is below. You can see the ridiculously short pinkie finger! Trying it on for this photo reaffirmed my belief that I used the wrong weight of yarn, so I won’t waste any more time or headspace on this project, I’ll likely frog it. I do like the general idea and colours though, they remind me of Minimalist Machinist’s Fool(ish) sweater, made with autumnal coloured scraps. Perhaps I’ll try one of my own some day?
The final version of the brown cable knit sweater I talk about in this episode. Annoyingly, looking back on photos, I found one from when I had cropped the length of the body, but not the sleeves, and in retrospect the sleeves were fine full length. I don’t know why past-Amy couldn’t see that, I think I was so far down the rabbit hole with this project that I couldn’t see the wood for the trees. The learning point from revisiting this project, is that sometimes packing something away for a period of ‘time out’, is no bad thing to stop yourself doing something you’ll regret later! Anyway, the end result is a totally wearable sweater, even if it wasn’t what I had originally intended when I set out to knit this project.
And here’s the original green cable sweater, from back in 2016 (when I had a lot more hair!). You can see how much longer the sleeves and body length are in the original version.
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