The year began much as it ended with crochet Imaginarium creatures flying off the hooks.<\/p>\n
. After six of these creatures in a year, I’m done for now. There are still three small girls I could make these for, but I need a break.<\/p>\n The next project was inspired by a book I got for Christmas: Knit Mitts<\/a> by Kate Atherley. We had some snow before Christmas and the daughter’s hands got extremely cold as all her mittens and gloves are shop-bought and made of synthetic fibres. Time for some proper wool mittens.<\/p>\n I’ve had to guess how much her hands will grow before next winter – they’d better last that long. We’ve already had a couple of incidents of misplaced mittens, but I’m being vigilant and they have so far been recovered safely.<\/p>\n Through an accident of timing, I realised that the mittens were actually eligible for a WIP medal in the Ravellenics. I had been trying to finish them beforehand, but over-ran by a day or so. This meant that my main Ravellenics project was started a little late.<\/p>\n I’ve had Catkin<\/a> on my list of projects to make for ages. I’ve even had the yarn picked out for a couple of years and kept safely in a bag, but never got round to starting it. In terms of yarn, it’s basically 2 pairs of socks. It’s got a few cables, some slipped-stitch colourwork and some simple patterning in knit and purl. I thought this would be a suitably challenging project.<\/p>\n As it’s a shawl that starts with very few stitches and grows every row, measuring progress is a little bit deceptive. Towards the end of the Olympics, my diary was quite busy. There was only one thing for it: I needed a spreadsheet. I can tell you that there are 41270 stitches in a Catkin. In order to finish it within the deadline, I had a daily target of just over 2500 stitches. It was so satisfying to get to the end of the day and know exactly how much progress I had made and how far ahead I was.<\/p>\n I still don’t have good pictures, but here it is before and during blocking.<\/p>\n Thanks to the forbearance of some work colleagues who were happy for me to knit through a whole day meeting, I was finished with a couple of days to spare, winning a medal for Shawl Skating and laurels for Stash, Colourwork and Cables.\u00a0 The pattern includes buttonholes. I didn’t put the buttons on initially and quite liked wearing it wrapped several times around my neck. Once the buttons were added, it became a very useful layer to wear under a coat, particularly while cycling.<\/p>\n Crafting goals for 2018 Complete 15 projects in knitting or crochet Complete 3 spinning projects Publish a design The year began much as it ended with crochet Imaginarium creatures flying off the hooks. . After six of these creatures in a year, I’m done for now. There are still three small girls I could make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/monsterfourth.jpeg\")
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