Year of 22 Projects - Project #2, knitted socks

 

I thought I had my fill of knitting socks. Actually I have had my fill of knitting socks. But I fell in love with this sock yarn, and I bought it. There was nothing else to do but knit a pair of socks. I finished the pair on the way home from a vacation in Puerto Rico on March 12th. Yarn by Karen Adams, sold at Tierra Wools, Chama, New Mexico.

Year of 22 projects - Project #1

I wanted last year to be another quiltwrapup year, a year in which I "wrap up" one unfinished quilt a month. That didn't work out too well. I finished two quilts, which is great, and I made some progress on a few more, but I didn't come close to finishing one quilt a month. So of course this year I'm going to be even more ambitious and finish 22 projects. They don't all have to be quilt projects, and I'll include projects that I abandon forever. Abandoning projects is very unusual for me, so that's a legitimate rule. So here is project #1. It's pretty awesome, and we've been sleeping under it all winter long. Soon it will be time to put it away. It's a crocheted granny square afghan using acrylic yarn, joined with the continuous flat braid chain by Cypress Textiles. I started it in 2021 even though I had vowed not to start another afghan until I found a job. I had an interview with Amazon in October and I didn't make the cut, so I drowned my sorrows in yarn. To add insult to injury, I set a goal of creating and joining ten squares a week. This made the process stressful. But my bedroom looks like a beautiful storybook now, so it was all for the best.