I live in a part of the world where winters are frigid and frosty and frozen and for the most part downright miserable. But also where the summers are sunny and steamy and sweltering and for the most part downright miserable. It’s called the Midwest, and it sucks sometimes. Not all the time mind you, this winter has been exceptionally mild, especially after the blizzard we had last February.

Most of my knitting and crocheting is focused around the winter months. My Ravelry projects page (which is TOTALLY an accurate depiction of my yarning, I swear. Only not.) has no less than 4 hats and 6 scarves. Another hat (that isn’t shown on my Ravelry projects page, HA!) can be seen here, after doing a very good job of protecting my head from the aforementioned blizzard.

My summer months are spent in a constant search for air conditioning. When I do find a nice icy breeze to sit next to, I can usually get myself to hunker down for something small, like dish towels or scrubbies or market bags, the likes of things I simply don’t have photos of.
And then the temperate months are spent frantically trying to whip up (and justify) more scarves and hats or things that I will “totally wear when it’s not quite warm enough to go without a sweater” like the Amiga cardigan. One of these days I’ll get the right yarn and obsess over getting every stitch exactly right for a year until it is finally complete.

This has been a post celebrating the 3rd Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week.