PURLKITTY

2024

Growth and Restore Kind of Year

I’m starting to feel like it’s a growth and restore kind of year. Restoring spaces, places, and things that fell by the wayside, growing into new spaces and places that feel right. In the context of knitting/crafting this is restoring what I once enjoyed about my YouTube channel (it’s coming) and my Instagram. For growth it’s stepping into new spaces maybe finally letting myself stash a bit of yarn again. Last week I could not keep my hands out of my stash and UFO pile. While I’ve got a few projects that I’m working on, I keep going into my...

The never ending sock yarn blanket

I will be completely honest, I’m still working on the sock yarn blanket that I started during the Olympics, the 2008 Olympics. (Ravelry pattern project page here). I might be a day or week off, but I remember putting into a lot of work on it during that time period. I’ve made pushes to get further before, but I’m nervous that this WIP is going to turn 20. On a related note, I’ve finished an entire mitered square blanket in that time out of larger squares that took around 5 years and I gave it to my mom for Christmas...