Knitting In 2011.....

I've been gathering some stats from Ravelry on the year that was 2011, because I wanted to see how productive I had actually been during my time of unemployment, so I counted up how many projects were begun and completed in 2011, and the total comes in at 43. 

27 were shawls, where 19 went to someone else (whether intended for that person from the beginning or not). Most of those were small shawlette-type thingies, because they make such fantastic gifts: they're easy to wear and don't take forever to knit.

So that leaves 8 for me - clockwise from top right (pattern + designer): Buttonwillow by Rosemary (Romi) Hill, Polaris by Susanna IC, In Dreams by Susan Pandorf, Little Leaves by Susanna IC, Ishbel by Ysolda Teague, Hawthorne by Susanna IC, Galadriel's Mirror by Susan Pandorf, and finally Barad Dûr by Susan Pandorf. 

Other than that there were 15 projects which were not shawls. Can you tell I've become enamored of making shawls? And I'm really happy to say that I've worn all 8 at least once! Next year I'm only knitting from stash (unless it's for presents). So there - yarn diet is back on! (Hahaaahaahaaa. Right).