kalira | The Crochet Pile

So I learned to crochet a bit over a year ago! (Picked it up on December 30th 2024, with many thanks due to my friend Rath (

navigatorsghost around various internetlands) who cheerfully answered at least half a dozen plaintive wait what do I do here and other confusions on that first day alone.

I crocheted many things last year (so, so many - perhaps I'll make a bit of an overview to show off here later, because I'm quite proud of some of it), and I even did three little markets! (where I sold a number of things, yay!) . . . but I also amassed a solid chunk of open projects on Ravelry and WIPs in general.

(Sidenote, please look me up on Ravelry if you like! I'm

Limmiel there and I am . . . on it more often than DW honestly, though not much in social areas partly because no one I hooked up with there is very active. XD)

Anyway! I had loosely intended to already, but I took inspiration from a

pterribledinosaurdrawings update and comic to actually set a goal to smallen that Pile (metaphorical, mostly; they aren't all stashed in the same place, and a number of the open Ravelry projects are batches of [thing] for marketable stock), and in service of that, I set up a spreadsheet to track some things.

So as of January 10th (when I set it up; I went and removed a couple projects I went 'ehh nope' on before I set up the spreadsheet) my numbers look like:

Active WIPs: 23
(Subset that are market batches: 14)
Hibernating: 8

Total projects (complete, WIPs, everything): 138

I'll probably try and update once a month (probably on the last/first day of month) with updates on those numbers, how many things I finished in a month, if and how many from The Pile have been finished . . . how many things I added to The Pile. . . >.>

And here is one of my most recent projects, which I am quite pleased with!

Mini rose:

It's crocheted with embroidery floss and a 2mm hook, and is about 8cm tall. (And I did a fair bit of design work to refine the rose, though I started with someone's pattern for the petals before I did a bunch of tweaks, designed my own calyx, and figured out a stem.)

The Crochet Pile - January 2026