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2026 Knitting WIP list

St Mungo’s socks finished 11/24/2025

WIP List:

  1. Fingerless Mitts #2- started 11/11/2025
  2. Soldotna – started 11/2025
  3. Coziest Memory Blanket (Minis)
  4. Pom Pom Hat Kit (not yet started)

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
    • #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

Finished Socks

knit picks
scrappy socks
2/1/2020

I briefly mentioned that I finished these socks on my recent weekly update and I wanted to go over them in detail.  I may have done so in a previous post but I can’t remember and if I can’t, maybe you can’t either.

These socks were knitted with 2 different colorways of Knit Picks Felici.  In 2018, I was on a kick to use up as much of my Felici as possible. This is one of those yarns that I bought a lot of because I loved the colorways but when I finally started knitting it, didn’t love the yarn so much.  So in 2018 every month I knit a pattern with what I had with the intent to use up all my Felici (spoiler: I still have a lot).  Because my feet are small and I like shorties (despite these being long), I would have 50g (almost a full ball) left of each colorway after every pair of socks.  So, I have a bunch of these leftover and at some point some time ago I needed a quick travel project and vanilla socks are the best for travel knitting.  When I finished the first colorway, it wasn’t enough for even shorties so I added a second colorway and just knit a tube until I finished the second colorway.  I pulled out my bag of minis and selected something for the heels and something for the cuffs.  The heels are kirby’s afterthought heel without waste yarn tutorial on youtube.  I originally didn’t put a waste yarn because I thought that these would go to my daughter. She decided she didn’t want them (she already has a ton of socks so she didn’t want to add to her collection).  So they’re mine.  The cuffs are 2×2 ribbing.

I started knitting on these socks as my morning knit project after Thanksgiving when I finished my November socks.  These took a long time to knit because of how long they became but I really love them and may consider knitting more long socks.

~Always,

Melanie