Ah crazy December. It went by in a blur! In December I launched a new cowl pattern, my Ultraviolette Cowl – I am famously not a cowl person and yet I do love this one and wear it. Cowls are fun to design and to knit even though in my heart I am a scarf/shawl girl. I put together an absolutely knock out palette for the ladies at Tin Can Knits for an upcoming project and now am obsessed with bright, saturated rainbows again. September it was OOAK’s, right now it’s tonal rainbows… if I’m being honest it’s always a bit of both. Despite the obvious big December things that happen every year, this year our December was marked by one big thing. Actually, make that two tiny things… in December we got kittens and our life changed for the better in every possible way! Me, not a cat person, turns out to be the biggest cat person ever. I love these cats with all of my heart. They bring the whole family so much joy I can barely stand it. They were the best idea I ever had. The grey cat is Chanterelle and the black cat is Minuit. They love each other, they love us, we love them. I mean. It’s literally heaven.
We also did about 11 puzzles the week between Christmas and New Years so it felt important to document that here. Even though December was mostly cats. LOL.
So, there you have it! A very rough year in review. I love it. I’m so happy that I did this. A few things really stick out to me: 1) we did more home projects than I thought we did and we did them all in the first half of the year. Interesting. 2) I need to seriously give myself a kick in the pants and get those two sweater patterns published. I love them both and have been wearing them a ton, they need to get out into the world!
I feel like this goes without saying but if you’ve made it this far you won’t mind that I’m adding this “year in review caveat” at the very end instead of the very beginning, but this year also included some sickness, a birth, a life changing diagnosis, growth, loss, heartache… you know, it was an entire year lived by a human who is sharing her life with other humans. It’s not all knitting, colour and cats. But it sometimes is, and that feels like it’s worth documenting too.
