The Year In Review Part II

The update on the Second Matt Vest is limited. I'm past the armhole decreases and so I just have to knit moss stitch until the shoulder shaping. Not much was done yesterday thanks to not feeling well, so I've got a lot to make up today.

Back to the projects from 2005:

The Town Square Jacket by Melissa Leapman (from Cast On magazine). A fast project and it's comfy. I wear it around the house a lot. I do wish I had made it just a little longer. However, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.



The Fair Isle Tote Bags. One for me and one for my MIL. Two big thumbs up on these. Fast, fun and practical. I don't do a lot of fair isle and these sort of wet my appetite! These kits were bought from Black Water Abbey yarns.



Note to self: need to get a better picture of this gem. I looooove this sweater. The Sampler Pullover in TLC's Heathers. I wear this ALL the time. It's comfortable, it's washable, I love the color, I love the stitches. Yummy. Only one complaint: the neck is just a bit high. The next one I'll make the neck a little deeper.

Now for one of the biggest projects finished:

The Leisure Arts Sampler Afghan. This is the second pattern I ever purchased as a new knitter. 13 years ago. I had an issue getting the crochet borders, so I ended up doing a selvege stitch on the edges of the blocks and that worked beautifully. I'm not thrilled with how it blocked, but I do think it turned out well. I do love doing sampler afghans! (you can see the individual blocks here)

Here's the last of the gallery projects: The Cable O's Vest.

This project is significant, as I had to fix a cable after the sweater was finished.

I'm still hoping to get one more project finished this year (the Second Matt Vest) and I still had a bunch of other finished projects that I didn't put in my gallery. The denim socks, the 5 baby sweaters I knit, the unknown number of Project Linus afghans and the Lucy bag for a charity auction.

Not bad. 2005 was probably my most productive year to date. Not only in volume, but in sucess. All of the projects that I made, with the exception of one, is getting a lot of wear. That's a good year. Let's toast to 2006 and hope that it's even more productive... but that's for tomorrow.