Here we go – kind of a light year, really.    Though I was doing shawls, and scarves, which tend to take a little longer.

  Pattern: Sky Scarf by Lea Redmond Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in the Clarity, Mist, Pool, Sky, Ciel, Ash and Silver Colorways Needle: Size 4 Circ It is so strange to have this project over.    I’ve had a recurring task set up at work to remind myself to make a note of the sky

 Here’s the final 2015 hexipuff stash – it’s up to 107, which means it’s in two bags now. 102 is the number for a pram quilt.    If I can get up to 167, I can go to the next size up.     I do still have some yarn that would go towards that

Pattern: Cabled Dad Hat by Alexis WinslowYarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes del Campo in the Wellies Heather colorway, and just a touch of the Blue Moon Gaea in CorbyNeedles: Size 6 and 7 circs, and size 7 DPNs I managed to finish the three hat trifecta on Christmas Eve!   Both BILs and

Pattern: Bough by Leila RaabeYarn: Classic Elite MountainTop Vista in the Peat colorwayNeedles: Size 5 and 7 circs, and size 7 DPNs. It’s weird how much the differences in a pattern eat yarn.    I used the same yarn, and the same needles for this hat as the last one I made, and yet I

Here’s part two of the great BIL hat-a-thon (if I get this one done in a timely manner, it might become the great BIL and FIL hat-a-thon).     This is Bough by Leila Raabe, also in Classic Elite’s MountainTop Vista.     This time in the Seal colorway.     (I think I’d initially

Pattern: Brezel by Svetlana VolkovaYarn: Classic Elite MountainTop Vista in the Peat colorwayNeedles: Size 5 and 7 circs, and size 7 DPNs I really enjoyed this hat – perfect level of interest in the pattern (even though I did have a pick a few rows apart a couple different times because I flubbed the pattern

Next project, if I can pull it off in time (which I should be able to do), is to knit hats for the two BILs, in time for Christmas.    I have two colorways of Classic Elite’s MountainTop Vista yarn that are perfect for manly hats.    (It’s natural colored wool, and the two colors

Pattern: Elm Socks by Cookie A from The Knitter’s Book of SocksYarn: Knitpicks Stroll in the Pine colorwayNeedles: 1.5 DPNs The yearly pair of socks is done!    This is a fairly easy Cookie A pattern, which means it’s still not basic (she tends to make you rotate through a couple different charts, with shifts

 Elm sock number one is done.   I like this pattern – it’s got some cabled interest to it.    It is a fairly long repeat, so it’s not really memorizable, but that’s ok.