2017 knitting review

• The favourites:

Looking back over my past blogposts, I think the Praline cardigan and the Birki cardigan really stick out - Praline because it was fun to knit a garment which was constructed differently from my usual go-to patterns and Birki because it's just so comfy and pretty and I've worn it a lot (amongst others on my Estonia/Finland trip). And of course I loved the Palmetto cardigan, I've been wearing it all the time this winter because it still fits me quite well during pregnancy - we'll have to see if I have to make some adjustments later on.

• The small stuff

I also knitted a lot of smaller items, especially baby stuff, that went to various friends who had babies this year. Many of them I forgot to document properly before giving them away and a couple of them are not posted yet but the pink alpaca vest was one of those projects. Good practice for knitting our own baby clothes!

• The one-off

Another project which I enjoyed a lot was knitting the Tailwind shawl with my hand-dyed "confetti explosion" yarn. In hindsight, the speckled yarn fad was exactly that: a fad. I'm still using the shawl if I need a bit of colour in the grey winter weather but honestly I'd rather stick to the boring old plain colours in the future, or at least a combination thereof.

• The loser

Clearly, this was the "Yellow sweater". Even though I knitted it in my favourite Létt Lopi, the yellow never really matched the one in the pattern and, who am I kidding, I just don't do sweaters! The idea was to convert it into a cardigan eventually but I never got round to doing it. I'm also not convinced of the yoke shaping, it's a bit too wide for my taste. 

• The unfinished

My "Delft" cardigan. Even though we visited Delft in the summer this did not boost my knitting mojo enough to really get down with this project. Actually, it was WAS finished at some point but the neckline was messed up and far too wide so I still have to unravel parts of the yoke. Urgh, I don't even want to think of those tiny stitches....

• The one that didn't survive

Oh, and last but not least one item that did sadly not survive 2017: my "Green Tweed" cardigan got accidentally shrunk in the washing machine. At least I got a lot of wear out of it before we parted, and I have to admit that it was my own fault it got destroyed. I usually washed it in the wool cycle but in moment of confusion I told Thomas to put it in the 40 degree wash with all the other stuff - oops.

• What's next? 

For 2018 I foresee a lot of baby knitting - if I manage to do any knitting at all! I still have some dream projects that I want to tackle but to be honest I prefer to wait until my body is back to its post-pregnancy shape (keeping my fingers crossed that my old stuff will still fit eventually!). But hey, you can always dream, for example of:

- Siri - still top of my list, second year in a row!
- Another Miette - such a nice and easy pattern and fits really well
- Minetta - I already got the yarn waiting and it's soooo tempting
- Tabular - even though I don't like sweaters this pattern got my fingers itching

Happy knitting 2018!