Here’s my first project of the year, and it’s a year long project: the Sky Scarf, by Lea Redmond. It’s really more of a method than a true pattern (it was originally a kit, but I’m doing my own). Basically, I bought a whole bunch of Knitpicks Palette yarn in sky tones (blues, grays and one white with the slightest touch of blue to it), and you knit a garter stitch row for each day of the year, based on what the sky looked like that day. You use two strands of yarn, so you can get a surprising amount of variability. As you can already see, the year has started out sunny, but quickly faded to storm…
I cast on 38 stitches, it being my 38th year (bizarre thought). Some people made a point of checking the sky at a specific point of day, but I’m winging that a bit. I’m mostly going to go with what’s happening in the morning, but I bought a great dark gray, so if there are any thunderstorms, no matter what time of day they happen, that gray’s getting added…