The three non-finishers are an illusion piece I knew I probably wasn't going to finish but started anyway in a fit of optimism, a shawl that I technically did finish, as in, I knit what the pattern said, but had over half of the yarn remaining and so decided to enlarge it to use up all the yarn, and a pirate costume for the Sheldon I knit for my nephew. With the 13 pre-2012 projects I finished, I'd count it as a successful year project-wise. I knit and crocheted quite a bit:
Yarn-wise, however, I did okay, but not great in decreasing the stash. Due to a sale and a test-knit opportunity of a particularly luscious sweater I did not have appropriate stash yarn for, I added more than I should have. My laptop has recently bricked (hardware problems) so I don't currently have my excellent Excel file. I should be able to get my entire hard drive back, but of course it died 3 days before I was going to back it all up and don't have a current backup of my stash file. Sigh. Even though I had to buy another skein of Patons for about 2 yards to finish a hat and some skeins of Caron Simply Soft to finish my turtle costume color collection, the yarn count went down (slightly) this month:
It's not as high as the highest yarn count, but it's still much higher than the beginning of the year, so I count that as a fail. Hopefully next year I can turn this year's failings into wins.
