Month: December 2025

2025 Knitting review

| Sonia Knits

Happy New Year everyone! I’m so happy to be beginning a new year and a clean slate. Nevermind those 4 UFO’s I’m carrying across to this year!

For those following along at home, I like to keep a tally of how many metres I knit each year on Ravelry. They have some handy tools on your projects pages which allows you to include your projects yardage. Then if you tag your projects by year and set up separate tabs for each year, voila! you get your total amount of metres for the year listed at the bottom of your projects page for the year.

I’ve been doing this for about 10 years now, and it’s interesting to see the trends. (I’m Sonia on Ravelry in case you want to take a look).

This year I knit 8,820 metres approx. I’m up a little from last year (7,158 metres), but I’m still a lot less than the years when I have completed a blanket and several jumpers. I think that’s the key to high numbers, finishing a blanket! 2020 and 2021 being covid and blanket years, meant that my highest amount of meterage knit was 14,147 metres in 2021!

If only I completed my Nimue blanket in 2025! But it’s not all about the quantity! I feel really happy about the projects I’ve made this year, and the ones I’ve made for me, I wear pretty often.

This year I made 5 garments, 5 pairs of socks, 3 hats, 2 pairs of mitts and 1 hedgehog ornament. It was mostly a selfish year of knitting, with just 1 hat, 1 pair of mitts and a hedgehog gifted… Damian didn’t even get a pair of socks! oops.

Knitting plans for 2026? I thought it would be sensible to be more sock-focussed this year. My self-striping yarn stash has grown at a fast rate, so I definitely need to knit more socks. But I still want to make more garments that I could wear to work, stylish and not too colourful… my first focus though is completing my 4 wips. Wishing you all a wonderful year.

December catch up

| Sonia Knits

Apologies for leaving you hanging with the reveal of my Christmas ornament. December has been a lot. It’s like all of the crappy things that could happen in a year jammed into a month, namely our 3 parents being in hospital for unrelated things. For the record January to November were pretty good. But some good things also happened in December.

Beginning with my Knitting group’s Christmas party. I made this little fellow for our Ornament swap:

The pattern is called Scrap yarn Hedgehog by Midori Hirose. It looks tricky, but wasn’t, my kind of knitting. I liked not having to attach things, it was pretty much a all-in-one knit. I hoped to make one for our tree and my niece, but as I mentioned December has been busy.

I went to Daylesford with friends for 2 nights. It felt like a different retreat this time, I wish I could have been more present. That’s okay we get to do it again in just a few months time.

Fast forward to Christmas eve and we were celebrating with our friends at their place. Our usual traditions are KK, 2 competitive activities and lunch. It is always very enjoyable and we look forward to it every year since it has become a tradition.

Here is Damian modelling our completed balloon wreath. We won, but only because Damian bribed the judge, outrageous!

Christmas Day this year was at one of my sister’s homes. It was a wonderful celebration to have everyone there. Except for Suzy (my eldest sister) who was missed.

With less than 5 days left for the year, I’m taking stock of my UFO’s for which there are quite a few, more than usual anyway.

3 pairs of socks, my EXP sweater, and my crochet blanket. I will be able to complete my Christmas socks (8ply), but I’m not sure about the rest! And I really wanted to finished my Nimue blanket this year, gah!

I will say, I am really enjoying knitting the EXP, but it’s quite slow with the half fisherman’s rib stitches. My 4 friends who are also making this with me are further along!