Monthly Archives: January 2025

Stash Track 2024: Second Half + Wrap-Up

2024 Stash Tracking

H1:
Fiber in: 0.0 oz
Fiber out: 0.0 oz
Ratio out/in: neutral
Total fiber stash change: 0.0 oz

Yarn in: 2,012 yds
Yarn out: 3,120 yds
Ratio out/in: 1.55
Total yarn stash change: -1,108 yds

H2:
Fiber in:  0 oz
Fiber out:  0 oz
Ratio out/in: 0/neutral
Total fiber stash change:  0 oz

Yarn in:  5296 yds
Yarn out: 0 yds
Ratio out/in: 0
Total yarn stash change: + 5296 yds

2024 Totals:
Fiber in: 0
Fiber out: 0
Ratio out/in: 0
Total fiber stash change: 0 oz

Yarn in:  7318 yds
Yarn out:   3120 yds
Ratio out/in: 0.43
Total yarn stash change:  + 4,198 yds

So. Even bi-annual tracking seems to be unnecessary at this point. Going forward in 2025, I will no longer be making stash track posts except at the end of the year—if they’re necessary even then. Anywho. Here it is: 2024 in its entirety. As y’all can see, very little happened here again this quarter. I hit one of KnitPick’s big sales for 2 sweater-quantities, but other than that? Nothing. Nothing went out since my blanket isn’t finished, and just that little bit came in. Nothing serious happened with my yarn stash this year. And zero happened with my fiber stash. Again. Which I do admittedly find mildly depressing. I’m hoping 2025 will bring with it at least one spinning project and use the tiniest bit of that lovely fiber I have up.

There really isn’t much more to say about this topic right now. I continue to be in a state of existing and cocooning. It turns out recovering from cancer treatment is pretty serious business that takes more than a year. I’m hoping to see steady and marked improvements in 2025—including some actual posts for this blog that are not simply tallies for yardage and stash tracking.

Stay safe, keep wearing your masks and cleaning your hands, hydrate, and take care of yourselves. Here’s to a gentle 2025, y’all.

XO,
Manda

December 2024: Wrap-Up

Yardage Totals 2024:

January: 988
February: 865
March: 452
April: 211
May: 256
June: 488
July: 760
August: 762
September: 301
October: 818
November: 580
December: 149

2024 Totals: 6630 yds or 3.77 miles

And that wraps up 2024’s knitting tally.

I had hoped I would feel like knitting a lot this last month and manage to bang out that final square for the long-term blanket I’ve been working on. Turns out, that’s just not the way things went for me, and I’ve knit roughly 1/4 of that square. *Whomp whomp* Oh well; it happens. I just had so many other things I’d rather do and I tend to follow my whims more these days and not force anything that doesn’t want to happen.

My only craft related goal of the 2020s is to knit something every month: I did manage a few days of knitting. This will continue to be my sole yarn-crafting goal in 2025. I’m hoping to also make some decent headway on some cross stitch projects in the coming year and finally get at least one finished so I can move on.

So. What about you, kitten?  Did your 2024 turn out how you hoped it would? Did you finish all the projects you wanted to? Or perhaps you were a bit less focused and scattered like I was this last year?

Wishing you all a Gentle 2025: take care of yourselves and each other,

XO,
Manda