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Going to try to do the Snowflake Challenge again next year, I think it's new every-other-day schedule might work a lot better and be less stressful, we'll see. I hope to start the new year with not only a Yuletide reveals post but also a 2019 general fic in review thing, but I plan to do one of those every year and always fail.

I also have a bingo card for The Losers I should work on. I was all excited when it was proposed, but it's a 2.5k min and while I often write over than now it's still a high enough number that stutters my brain to a stop.

In the past few months I finished two crochet projects: the first was very ambitious for me- I had a sweater that was a beautiful dark red and super soft but didn't fit and I figured out how to unravel it and then found an easy patterns and crocheted it into a throw. I used the leftover scraps to make cat toys (little balls that I stuffed with fabric scraps- the cats showed how much they loved them by immediately batting each one under furniture). Then I went looking for my yarn stash to start a new project but COULDN'T FIND IT. Ugh, too many boxes downstairs. I did find over 100 grannysquares for an afghan I abandoned probably 15 years ago because I *hate* joining up squares but wth, I had YT canon to review so I finished it up. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I have two abandoned braided rugs I could take a stab at but.. meh. They're annoying and hurt my wrists and fingers. I'll figure something out.

picture of red throw: afghan

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I found continental knitting way easier, too! I use continental combined knitting, though, where you purl by wrapping the yarn the other way around the needle and then knit it through the back loop during the next row/round to 'untwist' it. I find purling a lot easier that way. I swap between holding the yarn in my right and left hands, so when one gets tired I use the other.