Tips for Making Your Knitting Life Even More Fun

Hello 2024!

I’m not a big “resolution” person, but I did stop to think about a few changes I can make in my knitting life that will make the fiber arts even more fun for me.

Are some of these because of some serious frogging I did at the end of 2023? Yes.

Regardless, maybe these tips will help you too. 

• I’m going to put a pencil in all my project bags. That way when I stop on a pattern row, I can write myself a note about it, because I’m not going to remember the next time I pick that project up.
• I’m also going to add a pad of sticky notes, because this year, I’m going to take better notes on my patterns. Sometimes I put a project down for a long time and I need help jogging my memory.
• I’m going to read patterns through and highlight important directions; for example, if I need to change needle sizes after the ribbing of a sweater or hat.
• I’m going to hashtag the patterns I save in my Favorites section in Ravelry so when I’m looking at a gorgeous skein of handpainted fingering weight yarn, I can see all the one-skein shawl patterns I liked over the previous months.
• I’m going to shut the cat in the bedroom when I wind yarn. That should be self-explanatory.
• I’m going to finish one big hanging-over-my-head unfinished object this year. I don’t know which one it is yet, but I know it’s going to feel great when that UFO is finally done. Maybe I’ll feel so good I’ll finish a second one.

How about you? What are you going to do to improve your fiber crafting life this year?