I'm joining Kat and the Unravelers for our last Unraveled Wednesday of 2021. First of all, I'd like to express a big thank you to Kat for hosting Unraveled Wednesday. It feels like an anchoring spot for me in blogging; even if I can't think of anything else to say, I can almost always come up with a post about what I'm knitting and reading once a week. I like writing these Unraveled Wednesday posts, and I especially like reading others' posts about what they are making and reading. So thank you, Kat, and I look forward to more Unraveled Wednesdays in 2022.
While this is Unraveled Wednesday, it's also serving as What I Knit in 2021. I am not the most prolific knitter, but I managed to finish nine projects.
These included a hat I knit for myself in January, a Sockhead cowl, a pair of socks, three Hitchhikers, and three Christmas Bankhead hats.
This is certainly not an overwhelming number of finished objects, but I'm also happy that after three decades, I'm finally knitting a sweater. Now that I'm done with the Christmas Bankheads, I've returned to my Antler cardigan. The pandemic has taught me not to make any absolute promises, but I do fully intend to complete this sweater in the first few months of the New Year. It's even beginning to look a lot more like a sweater.
I talked about books quite a bit yesterday, so I won't ramble on about them anymore today. I do hope 2021 has been a satisfying year for you in knitting.
What are you making this week (or this year)?
I love your hitchhikers and how you are creative in the striping - always beautiful! Look at that sweater!! it's making itself :)
ReplyDeleteI am on the Gnome Bandwagon (and yes, I have my ticket for Year of Gnomes next year!)
ReplyDeleteI think these are my favorite Hitchhikers... I love the stripes and the colors of each of them!
You make the most beautiful Hitchhikers Bonny! So colorful and fun with the stripes. And I bet your sweater is finished in no time - it looks almost done already! I'm plugging away on several different projects and books and just enjoying it all.
ReplyDeleteI always think of you when I think of Hitchhikers, and the ones you knit this year are all stunning! Even if you start knitting more sweaters, I don't think you'll ever not be knitting a Hitchhiker. For the record, I think once you start the yoke of your Antler, you will finish it very quickly -- it gets very exciting once you get to that point and once the rounds start getting shorter.
ReplyDeleteI'm still working on the same two projects I've had on the needles while we've been on vacation, which might be a bit boring but are passing the time. I'm hoping at least one will be finished by the time we get home!
You create such beautiful Hitchhikers, Bonny. I can't think of a better project for highlighting beautiful yarns -- and I always love to see the added flourishes you include (stripes, beads, etc.). You are so close to being finished with your sweater! I know it may not feel like it, but as Sarah points out, once you get past the first bit of the yoke (which always feels super awkward), it will just FLY off the needles. I'm so excited to see it on YOU . . . instead of the antlers. XO
ReplyDeleteBonny, that sweater will be finished in no time! You are close to the end, and rounds will just keep getting shorter and shorter. That's always exciting to me when I knit a sweater. On a related note, I actually picked up my yarn and needles last night for the cardigan that I have really never started. It seems that knitting has taken a back seat to reading over the last couple of years. I need to fix that. Reading is my favorite pastime, but knitting provides meditative benefits that reading cannot. I love all your HH's, but I particularly love the first picture. That HH is very dramatic.
ReplyDeleteYour knitting is stunning. I totally agree with your comments about Kat's unraveled Wednesday. I love to check out what others are making. I also must thank you for sharing the books you read. We must have very similar reading tastes:) I follow you on Goodreads and I snatch up any book you recommend because I know it will be one I also enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words! I'm not a very exciting person, but I'm always glad to share what I'm knitting and reading (since that's how I spend much of my free time)!
DeleteI always love seeing your Hitchhikers!! I'm really looking forward to seeing that finished sweater!
ReplyDeleteYour Hitchhikers are all so beautiful and your sweater is really coming along. I always like to see what you are knitting and reading!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, Debbie! While I'm working on the sweater, I've been imagining a Hitchhiker with beads, so there may be another one (or two) in 2022!
DeleteI am cruising in on the end of my red Wool Peddler's Shawl. I hoped to finish it before the end of this year but that is a very arbitrary and unimportant deadline. However I have two more lace rows and the garter border so it's going to be close. I have the advantage of not going anywhere on New Year's Eve. That's going to be a good night for knitting.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy your hitchhikers and other knitting too. I think enjoying our knitting is the thing, not the number of projects.
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