First Needle of the New Year

I started this in November of last year, but it’ll be the first knitting project I finish in 2014. It’s a variegated yarn, which makes its own pattern. Or, you know, not.

I cast on 27 stitches, knit five rows, then do each row k1, p1. Every so often, just at random, I do a row of straight knit to break things up.I’ll do five rows of knit at the end, too.

I don’t know how long it’ll end up being, since I only have one skein. If it isn’t long enough to be a scarf, it’ll make a nice collar. I like those.

Our microwave died at the end of 2013, so we began the new year by doing our least favorite thing: consumer spending. We got one on sale, smaller than the last one, and with a timer, which the last one didn’t have. Isn’t this a fascinating post? You’d think it was a Facebook Status Update.

ANYWAY, happy 2014.

A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: What are your main character’s goals for the new year?

MA