A quick look back, and then on to 2026.
I published 10 new patterns in 2025, and gave Brioche Pastiche a big glow up for my Modern Daily Knitting brioche class. Not bad! Patterns are: Jelly Jewels (jewelry organizer), Portland Frog Hat (free), Fantasia Cowlette, Simply Stellar Shawlette, Log Cabin Love Coasters (for January 2026 Modern Daily knitting steek class), Flower Power Entrelac, Scattered Petals, Fired Up, Starstruck, Peekaboo Shawlette, and Brioche Pastiche.
Seven of my new patterns featured assigned pooling (four of those combined brioche and assigned pooling), and five featured brioche. I do have my favorite techniques, don’t I?
The Portland Frog Hat got the most attention this year.
Eight of my Top Nine Instagram posts were related to protest, and the last picture wasn’t even mine! It was a tagged collaboration.
Time to move on to 2026! My first class of the year is Log Cabin Love Coasters, an online class for Modern Daily Knitting. Come cut your first steek with me! It’s very non-threatening when it’s just coasters. Class is on Friday January 16, and it’s recorded so you can see it more than once, or if the time isn’t convenient for you. Register here!
What do YOU want to knit in 2026?
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I watched a bit of that knitting comp. in Britain, and the first contestant to go was the Scottish Gordon Cree, famous for steeking his sweaters. So I shall stop taking the mickey out of you about that: he made a subsequent video to explain why he hadn’t finished when everyone else had, and is was pretty damned interesting !
HNY to you and yours, dear Michele !!
Happy new year to you too, MR! I haven’t watched any of that competition, but it sounds silly. I knit for fun, and not that fast!
You have had a lovely and eventful year!
Happy new year to you as well! I’ve bought yarn to knit your brioche Heliotrope hat, so that’s definitely on my “to do” list. Plus I have a few new babies to knit for in 2026, one due in April (getting a blanket, 6-month jacket and a 1-year hoodie), another turning 1 that month, as well as others turning 1 in August and November. Their siblings/cousins all received sweaters for their first birthdays, so those are also on my “to do” list. Plus other projects I’ve started but need to finish, i.e., a vest, a pullover, a scarf. So much knitting, so little time!
I keep thinking up things that I want to knit, and I know I can’t keep up! But right now I’m single-mindedly working on an entrelac design project, and i want to finish that before the end of January. Lot of travel coming up, so the pattern needs to be written before I forget what I did!
Curious how you write a pattern. You make notes as you go…
That steek class sounds fantastic. Wow 10 patterns!! That’s a lot. Brioche and steek are on my “someday” list. Actually I knit a brioche shawl years ago but I’m not confident to knit the sweater in my queue. The instructor had to fix my mistakes as I couldn’t figure them out. I know …. lifelines.
Brioche and steeks are like party trick knitting! They look hard, but they’re really not.
I’ve gotten really good at fixing brioche mistakes, because I’ve made a lot of them! It’s worth trying to fix, before resorting to frogging. But I’m really good at that, too.