Too Many Projects, Not Enough Time
I was reading the 2023 Round Up post, and funnily enough there’s one small mention of knitting projects in my 2024 plans. Instead it turned out, I got obsessed again and managed to finish 3 sweater, 1 top, 1 pair of gloves and a little star. It’s been a busy year overall not only in…
This was one of the first projects I started this year, and my most recent finish. As usual I got distracted, but also as the “warmer” season came, I lost a bit of motivation, but I managed to finish it in time for the “colder” season. All in quotes because weather has been… odd. Let’s…
Next Knitfluenced project is my first finished sweater ever (for me) and also my first KAL: Azucena by EweKnit Toronto. After buying a small quantity of merino for gloves, I felt comfortable enough to get a sweater quantity of it. Surprisingly I didn’t get black, as I noticed while knitting another sweater that the texture…
Following a recent post in which I confessed how I was sucked in the world of yarnfluencers, I decided to start a series of posts where I write about a finished project that was in some way inspired by meandering in the online crafting community. The first project I’m writing about is not strictly a…
I started 2023 with some major existential crisis. In January, following the umpteenth layoff in tech, I set up an cross stitch pattern shop in an attempt to get an alternative source of income, which as of now has yield a total revenue of zero (or less), but I sold 5 patterns and I’m very…
On the third day of Christmas my true love sent me down a rabbit hole about the eponymous Christmas Carol, and I learned a couple of interesting things about it, one of them being that this year the true love would spend $41k to feed their beloved. Ouch, that’s one expensive romantic dinner, but don’t…
WordPress is telling me that it has been already 14 days since my last post. Life has been sort of busy: work, college, social gatherings, working out, a new tattoo, so I made very little progress on the leggings, but there was some progress. 1. Larger pattern The pattern shown in the last post was…
I’ve been thinking what to write as a small introduction of this latest (and probably last) blog post of 2017, but I’ve no wise words to share about this time of the year. So let’s get straight to the point and here you go a retrospective of my crafting for 2017. The first project of…