![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Dec. 6th, 2021 01:30 pmLast night, I finished the last of my Christmas knitting for this year*.
This morning, I drew up an elaborate document for next year's Christmas knitting, with links to patterns and yarns and a schedule of what I'm knitting when based on rough estimates of how long each project is going to take. I have five gifts to knit - two large, two medium, and one small. So I'm dividing next year in two, which each half getting one large and one medium project, and putting the small one in the first half (because it has colorwork and I'm not great at that, so doing it early means I have time to redo it if it turns out too lumpy.) My plan is to be done by March or April with the first half, then do projects for me till July, when I'll knit the other half and hopefully be done by October.
Having the whole year to get ready means I get to knit more interesting things - one of my sisters has been talking about wanting a lace table runner for a while now and the pattern I found looks really pretty and complex enough to be really interesting. And I found a shawl for my sibling-in-law that I'm jealous of before even starting, so if the actual process of knitting it doesn't suck, I may have to make a second one for me.
Plus now I get to feel all virtuous about being Organized and Having a Plan. Bonus!
*I still have to weave in ends on most of my gifts, but that doesn't count.
This morning, I drew up an elaborate document for next year's Christmas knitting, with links to patterns and yarns and a schedule of what I'm knitting when based on rough estimates of how long each project is going to take. I have five gifts to knit - two large, two medium, and one small. So I'm dividing next year in two, which each half getting one large and one medium project, and putting the small one in the first half (because it has colorwork and I'm not great at that, so doing it early means I have time to redo it if it turns out too lumpy.) My plan is to be done by March or April with the first half, then do projects for me till July, when I'll knit the other half and hopefully be done by October.
Having the whole year to get ready means I get to knit more interesting things - one of my sisters has been talking about wanting a lace table runner for a while now and the pattern I found looks really pretty and complex enough to be really interesting. And I found a shawl for my sibling-in-law that I'm jealous of before even starting, so if the actual process of knitting it doesn't suck, I may have to make a second one for me.
Plus now I get to feel all virtuous about being Organized and Having a Plan. Bonus!
*I still have to weave in ends on most of my gifts, but that doesn't count.
