WIP List:

1. Fingerless Mitts #2- started 11/11/2025- Finished 2/6/2026
2. Soldotna – started 11/2025
3. Coziest Memory Blanket (Minis) used up all my yarn set aside for this project so it’s waiting for more stash yarn
4. Pom Pom Hat Kit (not yet started) but I’ve wound the yarn. I have to find a pattern I like and get this going because I do not have a small travel knit and I want this to be that.
5. Cozies Memory Blanket (Regular) **New, I pulled this out to do a square each week

In queue:

1. sock projects in whatever order I feel like knitting them in
   • #1-Ricky’s ugly socks – I’m going to rip these up and start all over.
   • #2-Astrantia socks
   • #3- Sock it to me
2. Sweaters-
   • #1 – Soldotna (WIP)
   • #2 – Purple Yarn
3. Hats / Mittens
   • #1 – Pom Pom Hat Kit (WIP)
   • #2 – Jamieson’s color work (hat pattern picked but I still have to buy the pattern)
   • #3 – Mitts in a bag – Yggdrasil Miits by Skeindeer Knits (pattern is already in the bag with the yarn)
   • #4 – blue and white colorwork mitts? (no pattern and yarn is already wound up)
   • #5 – Yarn Cafe Creations (DK) – no pattern selected. just set aside with a note that says ‘hat’
   • #6 – Blue Manos and mohair. no pattern. intended to be knit together to create a halo (probably purchased around 12/2019 when our LYS was closing.)
   • #7 – Red Malabrigo – no pattern already wound up
   • #8 – woolly yarn (can’t remeber what it’s called and there’s no label except “lost city knits” purchased at 2019 Socal Stitches. note says it’s for mitts and I intended to use a Skeindeer pattern but I’m inclined to make a hat as I don’t use mitts a lot.
4. Shawls / Cowls
   • #1 – tranquility (red)
   • #2 – Outlander shawl
   • #3 – Advent yarn calendar from mindy (needs pattern)
   • #4 – blue (original tranquility but then frogged it because I didn’t like how it was coming together so I need a better for this)
5. Dailies- these are larger projects that I was doing one a day until J got tired…
   • #1 – advent calendar throw
   • #2 – coziest memory blanket (WIP)
   • #3 – corner to corner throw (crochet)
   • #4 – coziest memory (minis) (WIP)

LONG TERM: go through my stash. give away what I no longer want to knit and re-stash what I want to keep.

Knit on friends,

Melanie

It’s coming together. But life has been very busy and my crafting has diminished while I struggle to catch up with things.

Yarn: Berroco Ultra Wool purchased when my LYS closed in Dec. 2019. The brown is color 33115.

Cheers! Knit on my friends.

Melanie

• yarn: Voolenvine Yarns (my fave!) Wolke
• colorway – Feyre
  80-10-10 MCN

Free Pattern from stashlounge.com “fantastic fingerless mitts”

started 11/11/2025

I looked through my posts and I see I mentioned this new start on my knitting WIP lists but was negligent in giving its own special new start post.

I am almost done with these and then I’ll focus on Soldotna. Having 4 knitting WIPs is a little much for me even though I am only really working on 3. But even 3 is too many. The fingerless mitts is more of like a travel knit – something small and easy to transport and not something that I truly enjoy knitting. but I also can’t have sitting around waiting for me to travel, or go to a doctor’s appointment. I really want to work on Soldotna so I am focusing on finishing this WIP since I’m so close. I only have to do the thumbs at this point.

Melanie

I’m getting ready for my 2026 knitting to do list so went through the 2 knitting bins of projects (#3 on the original to do list)

1. Fingerless Mitts #2- started 11/11/2025
2. 2 kitted sock projects in whatever order I feel like knitting them in
   • #1- St Mungo’s – finished 11/24/2025
   • #2-Ricky’s ugly socks
   • #3-Astrantia socks
   • I went through the bins of yarn projects (#3 of this list) and there was another sock #4- Sock it to me
3. go through the 2 bins of yarn projects. From memory, the yarn is set aside but some may have a pattern name with it, but most probably do not. I doubt any of them have actual patterns with the project unless I bought the project kit as it was. —- done! 11/22/2025
4. LONG TERM: go through my stash. give away what I no longer want to knit and re-stash what I want to keep
5. Sweaters- I know I have more yarn in stash dedicated to sweaters but I haven’t gone through those bins yet… on the 2 bins I went through, I set aside two sweater projects
   • #1 – Soldotna
   • #2 – Stunning String Studio – purples (need to pick a pattern)
6. Hats / Mittens
   • #1 – Pom pom hat kit (I think a pattern is included)
   • #2 – Jamieson’s color work (hat pattern picked but I still have to buy the pattern)
   • #3 – Mitts in a bag – Yggdrasil Miits by Skeindeer Knits (pattern is already in the bag with the yarn)
   • #4 – blue and white colorwork mitts? (no pattern and yarn is already wound up)
   • #5 – Yarn Cafe Creations (DK) – no pattern selected. just set aside with a note that says ‘hat’
   • #6 – Blue Manos and mohair. no pattern. intended to be knit together to create a halo (probably purchased around 12/2019 when our LYS was closing.)
   • #7 – Red Malabrigo – no pattern already wound up
   • #8 – woolly yarn (can’t remeber what it’s called and there’s no label except “lost city knits” purchased at 2019 Socal Stitches. note says it’s for mitts and I intended to use a Skeindeer pattern but I’m inclined to make a hat as I don’t use mitts a lot.
7. Shawls / Cowls
   • #1 – tranquility (red)
   • #2 – Outlander shawl
   • #3 – Advent yarn calendar from mindy (needs pattern)
   • #4 – blue (original tranquility but then frogged it because I didn’t like how it was coming together so I need a better for this)
8. Dailies- these are larger projects that I was doing one a day until J got tired…
   • #1 – advent calendar throw
   • #2 – coziest memory blanket
   • #3 – corner to corner throw (crochet)
   • #4 – coziest memory (minis)

I can’t believe how many projects were stored in those bins and I’m not sure where to hide these back into. I pulled out the Soldotna and pom pom kit as those as the two I’ll have as my rotation. When my current fingerless mitts are finished, I think I’ll pull out one of the socks kitted up.

Knit on friends,

Melanie

Okay. I finished the socks but I ended up making them shortie socks and I stopped doing the pattern after my last post. I wasn’t enjoying it. I am sure I misunderstood the pattern and messed up somewhere and I wasn’t loving it enough to figure out where I messed up. So I just started doing vanilla socks and bound off when I felt it was enough.

Even though the sock is done I’m using the yarn to make another set of fingerless mitts. as I said in my last knitting update I really need to do #6 and 7 on my list so I can start to do some real joyous knitting. But I haven’t had a chance to and my next joyous knitting is finishing a skein of yarn. J hope to do that with the left over yarn I used on these socks.

Here’s my current Knitting WIP to do list:

1. finish burying the ends of the last fingerless mitten – Done 9/2025
2. Take a picture of my GardenGate sweater. Done 10/2025
3. finish repairing the sock that Willow chewed up – Done 9/2025
4. Add heels to 2 sock tubes- DONE 9/2025
5. 3 kitted sock projects in whatever order I feel like knitting them in
   • St. Mungo’s – started 10/2025… finished 11/11- I still need to weave in the ends.
   • Fingerless Mitts #2- started 11/11/2025
6. go through the 2 bins of yarn projects. From memory, the yarn is set aside but some may have a pattern name with it, but most probably do not. I doubt any of them have actual patterns with the project unless I bought the project kit as it was.
7. LONG TERM: go through my stash. give away what I no longer want to knit and re-stash what I want to keep

Knit on friends,

Melanie