At the end of 2024, I posted about wearing handknit accessories that did not coordinate. In the beginning of this year, 2025, I knitted a couple of sets for myself that did coordinate. The hats, cowls, and mitts look good.
The only way the accessories could look better is if they were in naturally-coloured wool instead of synthetically dyed. I have enough naturally-coloured wool yarn in my stash to make a pair of mitts. I hope to knit it up in the fall, but there are a lot of other projects in my queue as well, so I don't know. If the mitts come out well and if I have enough money in my clothing budget and if the yarn is still available, I'd like to get more of the yarn to make myself a coordinating hat and cowl.
The stash situation is currently mixed. I'm glad I bought a lot of cotton yarn for dish cloths when a big box store went out of business but it will be a relief when I have knitted said yarn into dish cloths. The yarn is making my wool room look cluttered. Well, more cluttered. At the rate I'm going, I expect most of that yarn will be gone by the end of the year.
I took the local Gulf Coast Native fleece out of the bag to skirt it and discovered it had wood chips in it. I trust I'll be able to get those out when processing the wool.
I had a plan to knit up the yarn that is sitting in one box and then tackle another box. However, that plan has gone by the wayside for now, as my queue on Ravelry is now arranged according to which finished objects I'd like done first. A lot of the projects at the top of the list are gifts. The tail end of the queue is getting longer with ideas of things I'd like to make for myself.
I am knitting something for myself, a black lace scarf in linen-cotton.
There are discussion threads on Ravelry when you can post about what projects you want to work on that month and then check in by the end of the month to report on your progress. There are other discussion threads where you can post monthly about how much yarn and fibre has entered and exited your stash. I've been doing so this year and have found it to be helpful in keeping my focus. It's nice to get encouragement from others too.
