A Bitter Knitter

At the end of 2017, I finished my 200th project.  It was part of a small handful of projects I crammed in for gifts at the end of the year even though I swear every year that I will not do Christmas gift knitting.  In my defense of breaking my no-deadline-gift knitting, item no.200 was for my mom, who expressed a need for a hat.  And, before I show you the picture, let me tell you that it is really hard to get a picture of the back of one's own head, but I wanted a picture that showed off the back and I need to get a picture really quickly before I gifted it.  So, with that in mind, here is my 200th knitted item : I've been knitting for just over 8 years now, which means I'm averaging 25 projects a year.  This average is totally skewed because of 2013 in which I managed to complete 48 projects.   I made a whole bunch of beaded bracelets... maybe I should make more of those this year... 2013 was also the year in which I hit the 100 project mark....

So . . . how many times have I come back to this blog and said, "Oops, I guess it's been a while?"  Well, however many it has been (don't tell me), add one more.  On the upside, it's been less than a year since my last post. I got a new power cord for my old laptop (the left side of the screen is cracked and black, but 80% of the screen still works, so it's still mostly usable) and may actually blog again now that I'm on it.  It is SO MUCH EASIER, in my opinion, to blog from a computer than from a cell phone. One of the reasons for fewer blog posts is because there has been less knitting.  I completed only 14 projects in 2017.  (Only one of those was for myself, and I posted about that as my only posts last year. More selfish knitting!!!) The first project I made last year was this: She's a tooth fairy !  Jo had her first wiggly teeth last year in February (she was five) so I made a little tooth fairy.  Her apron is a pocket.  She's bas...