The Novel Knit Girl Blog

Since January is nearly done, it's time to reflect on what I hope to accomplish this year (right?). Every year I have the same resolutions, which should tell you something about me. This year, I'm simplifying. 1) Knit with yarn I have. I am not allowed to buy any more yarn until I get through at least a good portion of my stash. It's a large stash. I have three projects in the works now, and a few quickies I hope to breeze through this weekend. I love yarn. I love the possibilities. Sometimes my excitement gets ahead of my time and talent availabilities. (This also means that I need to use up yarn that I don't like. So I've returned to a project that was one of the first "kits" I bought after graduating from swatching. It involves a not beautiful burgundy-colored "homespun" yarn and a shrug that seems like a bad idea now. But it will be finished - and possibly donated. Or maybe it will be fabulous. That's the great thing about projects.

I get it. You don't want to read my blog unless there are pictures. I'm so late in finishing this post and I haven't photographed everything I was going to include... but here is what I have to show for my attempt at homemade Christmas gifts this year. (NOTE: WORKING ON MY PHOTOGRAPHY SKILLS) Craftsy November knit-along cowl with cables, which I messed up. I misread the pattern. Luckily the final product works just fine. It has a few mistakes, because sometimes that's how I roll...  I plan to re-do the pattern to include the additional stitches that I forgot on this one, but for someone in the Pacific Northwest, I think it will be great (and this way my sister and I won't have the exact same cowl). This is the Knit and Tonic Lucky Ribs Cable Cowl (a "modified" version). And here are the nephew scarves - Go Go Gryffindor and the Meandering Rib scarf Go Go Gryffindor - no pattern used. Just garter stitch. Pattern source: Meanderin