Knitting
2 short sleeved jumpers, 3 long sleeved jumpers, 7 cardigans, one baby cardigan, three baby hats and a pram set, and a neckwarmer.
The only jumper I haven't blogged about yet was a 'Weasley' jumper requested by my daughter and which I got finished just in time for her to wear to a Christmas jumper day at work.
I didn't use a pattern, but based it on a jumper I'd made for myself several years ago (although mine was just plain, no letter!) and adjusted the measurements to fit her. The 'A' I plotted on graph paper. It didn't take long to knit as it's made with aran weight wool (Drops Big Merino), but I don't want to do any more intarsia any time soon.
A fair bit of 2017's knitting was for other people - the neckwarmer, the baby stuff, the jumper above and one of the short sleeved jumpers, and some of it was as part of knit-a-longs - the two short sleeved jumpers and one of the cardigans. I often don't get things completed in the alloted timeframes for knit-a-longs, but I always start them with the best of intentions!
I've just totted up the metreage that I've knitted and it's a grand total of 11,828, which is 7.35 miles. This is just the finished items and so doesn't include the two wips which I am carrying forward into 2018. For comparison (and out of curiosity mainly), I've also added up previous years' output - 2016 (13,343m), 2015 (10,386m), 2014 (4,368m), 2013 (4,795m) and 2012 (10,500m). Which is 55,220m or 34.2 miles. I think the dips in 2013 and 2014 were caused by my catching the sewing bug - I sewed a lot more in those two years than I have in the subsequent three.
Sewing
I made 9 dresses this year all of which I've blogged about so not really anything more to say about them at this point. I would like to make a bit more of a dent in my fabric stash in 2018 though!
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