Fettle Those Finishes! End Of Year Reports

It’s time to tie up Fettle Those Finishes! 2023 and for us all to write a report about our progress this year. I’ll start us off, shall I? Here’s list I and list II and my progress report from July, plus my end of year report from 2022.

At the start of the year, I sorted out my sock knitting records and now they’re all transcribed onto a card for each person (or more than one card if a lot of socks have been knitted, I think I have three!) and the system is working very well, much better than the pile of paper I had previously.

Read about the knitting record cards here

Fettling Score = 1

Throughout the year, I’ve knitted twelve pairs of socks for other people (well, thirteen but one wasn’t on the list *shakes head*):

Fettling Score = 13

In July, I had 60 socks-in-waiting in the sock lucky dip album (yes, it’s a thing) and I’m ending the year with 56 despite having knitted ten pairs for me, which means a few have been added in the last six months (not always by me, honest!) so I need to try harder to whittle it down next year.

All the sock finishes for 2023 are under the ‘socks 2023’ label if you want to read more
or find out more about the yarn

Fettling Score = 23

I’ve knitted twenty-four Advent trees and used them this Advent, with a Bendicks bittermint under twenty-two of them (you get eleven in a box):

Read about them here

Fettling Score = 24

I knitted one set of nine dishcloths (listed as one item) and then another eleven later in the year:

Fettling Score = 36

Then two faffy (but very cute) bears

Fettling Score = 37

Then a test tiny jumper to check for size and a further three once orders had been placed:

Fettling Score = 41

Which means I’ve more than doubled my score from last year! However, that’s mainly because they’ve all been small projects. (And all knitting. I’ve done barely any sewing this year, hopefully that will be different next year.)

I’m looking forward to reading your reports, you have until 31st January to link up so loads of time to gather photos, etc. One thing I changed this year compared to last was to keep both an album of finishes and a list of them with my fettling score updated as I went along and it has definitely made writing this report easier; I shall be doing that again next year. I’ll also be making sure that all of the photos of finishes are the same size (at least within a category) as that would have made creating the collages a lot easier.  

Thank you very much for joining in this year, it’s been lovely and I hope you’ll join me next year. Links for Fettle Those Finishes! 2024 lists will open tomorrow and will stay open for quite a while so no need to do everything all at once, there’s just me who needs to do that!

If you had beed more diligent, this could have beed two socks and a small left over ball instead of
almost one sock and a still-quite-big ball *stern face*

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