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The Crochet Pile - January 2026 wrap-up
I got a good start on smallening the Pile in January!
I did also finish off several things that were easy/short finishes, so probably I won't have another month with quite so many finished up!
Finished this month: 9 projects
Finished from The Pile: 4 projects
I also struck 1 item from The Pile . . . it was something technically hanging around waiting for the last bit of detail - non-crochet work. From last February. And frankly I just decided I didn't give enough of a damn to want to do that at all actually, so I dropped it from even hibernating.
. . .and next month I think I'll note down what the projects are, too, because I knocked myself off count and had to recalculate a couple times early on, and now I'm trying to remember what all I finished and confusing myself.
Anyway! I finished a shijimi bag, which literally just needed the handles stitched on (mentioned that talking about another project), a wash cloth with words (LOVE IS LOVE), a project making gigantic fish toys which are the most flingable things I've ever crocheted, and a cat stitch practise swatch.
I also started and finished . . . well I threw together a chain for a fidget pendant (traded for/bought it at a holiday market I had a table at in December); a literal crochet chain. XD It's heavy and I don't have any necklace chains long enough and heavy-duty enough for it; I used some black cotton. Technically a project, but . . . not much of one.
Also started and finished a net market bag, and what amounts to a kitchen washcloth/scrubby. I was having a very upset time - got a bad news phone call literally the moment I parked at the library to go in for a yarn crafting hangout - and decided I was too stressed and preoccupied to work on what I had planned to while I was there, but of course I did go in anyway, so. . . I had a skein of the red cotton I'm using to make a set of washcloths for my kitchen - however . . . I distractedly used a 3.5mm hook, the smallest one I had with me. The set is being made with a 5.5mm hook. I realised on the second or third row, but decided to go with it anyway. Made a quite tight, thickly-worked piece, nubby because it's moss stitch, just worked super snugly. So an accidental but technically a new project.
I did also start this!
I'm not calling it a new project because I had one in hibernation that was . . . this blanket.
I started the original way back February last year, a couple days after I had a major surgery, doing finger crochet. It's a bulky yarn, very soft, in huge cakes (Lion Brand Cover Story, in 500m cakes), and I was doing it in moss stitch.
I did a lot of it while watching Sherlock Holmes (the Granada series, with Jeremy Brett) with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mad_madam_m, and I enjoyed working on it and even the (arctic camouflage) look - thankfully - but. . .
The edges were curving in significantly. That photo is trying to minimise it, even. I paused to debate if that would bother me - it's a rumply kind of blanket anyway! - in March, and then . . . last summer I decided yeah, it would indeed bother me. And then just left it be - I only finally frogged it last Saturday.
And got started on it over again! This time, however, I made it a couple inches wider . . . which meant an increase from 68 stitches to 110 stitches. Because I also am not doing it finger crochet this time - I'm using a 12mm hook. It still works up decently quickly - and I've got it to 75 rows in less than a week - but we'll see how long it takes! It's already got more than the cake I used in the first one and then frogged back in it. I have a total of three - I think that'll be enough, but if need be I'll go get another one.
So at current numbers:
Active WIPs: 20
(Subset that are market batches: 14)
Hibernating: 6
Total projects (complete, WIPs, everything): 141
I did also finish off several things that were easy/short finishes, so probably I won't have another month with quite so many finished up!
Finished this month: 9 projects
Finished from The Pile: 4 projects
I also struck 1 item from The Pile . . . it was something technically hanging around waiting for the last bit of detail - non-crochet work. From last February. And frankly I just decided I didn't give enough of a damn to want to do that at all actually, so I dropped it from even hibernating.
. . .and next month I think I'll note down what the projects are, too, because I knocked myself off count and had to recalculate a couple times early on, and now I'm trying to remember what all I finished and confusing myself.
Anyway! I finished a shijimi bag, which literally just needed the handles stitched on (mentioned that talking about another project), a wash cloth with words (LOVE IS LOVE), a project making gigantic fish toys which are the most flingable things I've ever crocheted, and a cat stitch practise swatch.
I also started and finished . . . well I threw together a chain for a fidget pendant (traded for/bought it at a holiday market I had a table at in December); a literal crochet chain. XD It's heavy and I don't have any necklace chains long enough and heavy-duty enough for it; I used some black cotton. Technically a project, but . . . not much of one.
Also started and finished a net market bag, and what amounts to a kitchen washcloth/scrubby. I was having a very upset time - got a bad news phone call literally the moment I parked at the library to go in for a yarn crafting hangout - and decided I was too stressed and preoccupied to work on what I had planned to while I was there, but of course I did go in anyway, so. . . I had a skein of the red cotton I'm using to make a set of washcloths for my kitchen - however . . . I distractedly used a 3.5mm hook, the smallest one I had with me. The set is being made with a 5.5mm hook. I realised on the second or third row, but decided to go with it anyway. Made a quite tight, thickly-worked piece, nubby because it's moss stitch, just worked super snugly. So an accidental but technically a new project.
I did also start this!
I'm not calling it a new project because I had one in hibernation that was . . . this blanket.
I started the original way back February last year, a couple days after I had a major surgery, doing finger crochet. It's a bulky yarn, very soft, in huge cakes (Lion Brand Cover Story, in 500m cakes), and I was doing it in moss stitch.
I did a lot of it while watching Sherlock Holmes (the Granada series, with Jeremy Brett) with
mad_madam_m, and I enjoyed working on it and even the (arctic camouflage) look - thankfully - but. . .The edges were curving in significantly. That photo is trying to minimise it, even. I paused to debate if that would bother me - it's a rumply kind of blanket anyway! - in March, and then . . . last summer I decided yeah, it would indeed bother me. And then just left it be - I only finally frogged it last Saturday.
And got started on it over again! This time, however, I made it a couple inches wider . . . which meant an increase from 68 stitches to 110 stitches. Because I also am not doing it finger crochet this time - I'm using a 12mm hook. It still works up decently quickly - and I've got it to 75 rows in less than a week - but we'll see how long it takes! It's already got more than the cake I used in the first one and then frogged back in it. I have a total of three - I think that'll be enough, but if need be I'll go get another one.
So at current numbers:
Active WIPs: 20
(Subset that are market batches: 14)
Hibernating: 6
Total projects (complete, WIPs, everything): 141