Well I'm very pleased with this month's wool stats as there was no yarn in at all in January. Hooray! I say hooray because it's good for the stats but it does mean I haven't had any of those little dopamine hits you get when a parcel full of lovely yarn arrives through the post. On the other hand it's quite a big dopamine hit when you get a good overall destash number for the month, so I suppose it's swings and roundabouts really.
Wool out, which was a combination of using up, throwing useless bits away, selling, and swapping for books came to a grand total of 2117g which is obviously the net reduction for the month/year to date. I was very pleased.
And here are some recently completed projects
Fingerless mitts which were from week 3 of the Layfamily advent. This is the pattern I decided on when the pattern included with the yarn proved far too big. They are wonderfully cosy. It was a feature of the advent that three of the weekly parcels included fluff - you had the choice of kid mohair or suri alpaca and I opted for the alpaca - to hold double with the 4 ply. I'd never done that before, don't know that I'd be wild about it in a sweater although people do do that I know, but it does make for toasty necks, hands and in due course heads.
A friend sent me this pattern and yarn for Christmas. Again the mitts turned out wildly too big for me but luckily they were a good fit for the OH and he loves them.
I'm aware this doesn't look too impressive for two months work. However I have done lots of granny squares for the |Woolly Hugs charity that I won't photograph and post about until I've done all the ones I plan for now. There was also the Van Gogh advent blanket which I allowed to have a post all of it's own. So not bad going really.
Not bad going at all! Love the cowl x
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