2024 In Review

[atherleisure]

About half of my time this year was spent cross-stitching, which takes a lot of time, but I still made quite a few things. I’m pleased with what I made, but I didn’t make my new favorite thing. There are a couple of things that I still need to get pictures of, but since it’s already January 10, I decided to go ahead and post this and fill them in later.




January

1910’s embroidered purse


1900’s ivory net hat


1949 “Going Swimming” bathing suit


March

1860’s wool dress

(picture by Sue Burbage)

1947 culottes for my daughter


1826 ivory bonnet


1902 knitted silk vest


April

1920 tuxedo sweater


Band banquet dress for my daughter


1826 wool promenade dress


May

Vctorian/Edwardian bathing shoes


1930’s wool/rayon blend dress

(picture by Mark Edwards)

1940’s knit bag and beret


June

14th century wimple, band, and veil


1880’s Balantyre plaid knickerbocker stockings


14th century linen gown


1826 pelerine


1940’s merino cardigan


July

Three cross-stitched Christmas ornaments for my children


1930’s peach beret to match last year’s swimsuit


August

1940’s knitted block-pattern blouse


October

Two Hallowe’en embroidered pictures for my daughters


1940’s merino jumper/shell to go with the cardigan finished in June


November

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” cross-stitch


“Santa’s Journey Stocking” cross-stitch


Studio cardigan


Garmisch hat


December

1867 tatted cravat


1901 wool bicycling skirt
(no pictures yet)

I ended the year with three projects in hand.
1. “Street Scene” cross-stitch – This is a large, sepia-toned picture with extremely subtle shading. It’s really, really slow to work. I started it in January 2023 and had it 25% complete at the beginning of 2024. After working on it steadily all year except while I did my daughters' Christmas stockings, it’s now 60% complete.
2. 1901 bicycling sweater – As of 1/1/25, I just had part of the second sleeve to knit. I finished the knitting on 1/2/25 and have now assembled it. I should finish off the buttonholes today, and then it will be finished.
3. 1919 cape sweater – I started this between Christmas and New Year’s since I knew I was close to finishing the bicycling sweater. I’m well into the first piece.

I also read 68 books this year.

I’m continuing to try to work from my stash. I’m not sure how successful I’ve been. I bought a few pieces of fabric of only a few yards from estate sales and three dress lengths of fabric for other projects. Most of my knitting projects came from new yarn. That being said, projects have been started for all the yarn I bought this year except the fine white cotton that I got at an estate sale. I need to find more small things to make with the leftover yarns from previous projects. During the summer, my mother-in-law gave me all of her embroidery thread since she can’t embroider any more. I also bought three cross-stitch Christmas stocking kits. I made two stockings so it was only a net increase of one kit. Overall, I think it was probably close to net zero but may have been a slight increase. I shall continue to make efforts to use what I have rather than buying more.

Comments

[danabren]

So many fantastic projects I'd forgotten about, thank you for this wrap-up <3

[atherleisure]

Thank you. I like being able to go back and see everything I made in a year myself.

[mala_14]

Great roundup! You are such a prolific knitter, and I really enjoy seeing the historical knitting that people don't really tend to do but that you do, like the silk vest. Thanks for sharing!

[atherleisure]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I get curious about some of these old knitting patterns and enjoy finding out about them.

[hharris]

Great year! It's nice to see all the projects here, in one place.

[atherleisure]

Thanks. I like seeing everything from a year at once. I also like having the year in review tag so I can easily flip through projects of previously years too.