February is for color
Did you read Amanda Blake Soule 's blog back in the day? Soulemama no longer exists, but a few things she wrote stuck with me. One of them was that February is for color knitting. (Or did Stephanie Pearl McPhee write that?) For myself, I don't stray much past neutrals and neutral-adjacent shades, but I do love all kinds of colors for other people. For Christmas, I received a gift card to this shop , and I used it to purchase something I've had my eye on for years. Years . I'm using it to make The Incredible Blanket , a riot of color, and it's making me so happy right now. I'll probably still be knitting this in February 2027 and February 2028, too. I've got color covered! I bound off my first FO of 2026 not too long after turning the calendar page to January. It helped that just a part of one foot and a toe remained. These are vanilla socks , a little too small for me, a little too large for Little M, but sh...
