Russet Lodge Custom Knits

 Hi friends. Life has been really tough for the last few months.  The late winter/early spring slog is tough for a lot of us, and mine has come with illness, family drama, relationship ups and downs, mental health stuff, work stuff, travel, etc.  Life just keeps happening.  I have finished some projects and I have some more in progress, but I do want to refocus myself on finishing (or frogging) UFOs, organizing my stash (there's always more yarn to log and organize and catalog), and continuing to finish projects.  I also took on some commissions during the holidays and got a reminder that they're not my favorites, but I do have one more to finish before I'll be free of them. Here are the finished cabled aran kilt hose for a bagpiper who found my Etsy: Here's my current UFO list, those in bold are new since my last entry: Outlander MKAL shawl: will probably frog it but would like to knit eventually Kelley's Ski Sweater: will frog, no longer the right size Woolly Rain

Hi!  I hope y'all survived the holidays like I did.  I've been crafting up a storm, so I have lots to share.   1. I made a pint-sized Kaanteinen for my nephew out of some knit picks merino from my stash, along with a coordinating pair of mittens, improvised from the Margot Mittens pattern I've used before. 2. My daughter got a Dean Street Hat and matching mittens using the No Swatch No Gauge mittens pattern.  The yarn is some variety of mystery wool that was given to me by a friend. 3. My mom got the Swirl Socks I'd been working on, she's definitely sock-worthy. 4. I gifted my daughter's dad some sock yarn for a pair of socks that are in progress, so that's a new WIP that I need to get set up in Ravelry. 5. I finished the green spindle spun yarn which was a gift for my friend M.  The color is so hard to capture. 6. I started a new spindle spun project which also needs to go in Ravelry, it's some Paradise Fibers merino in the colorway Granada.  It's g