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End of year wrap up - goodbye 2024 hello 2025

On this first day of 2025 I am feeling quite contemplative. 2024 was a pretty good year, although it ended with some sadness.  Even within that pain, I look around and my friends and am very grateful and full of love. This was our New years eve / chanuka celebration:

There were no really major life changes in 2024. Same job, same house, same love (hi Leon) same fitness hobby. I did get back into running regularly, which is very good for my mood.

We had some good holidays, including two hiking trips, a trip to Tasmania, two weekends in Bendigo, some time at the Adelaide Fringe, Marysville, bush camping and our first (and quite possibly last) cruise. A good year.

I knit 50 things, using 21, 374 metres of yarn. 

I found a new group to charity knit for, and made 18 things for them. 

Despite my oft stated intention to knit less socks, I knit ten pairs of socks, eight of which are for me and Leon. My challenge of knitting less socks is one I will doubtless keep failing!

I came back to both spinning and dying this year, and dyed the fibre for a jumper I'm spinning up now. I've done all the singles. 

I used my hand-dyed yarn for six projects, and have some (vague) plans for more dyeing adventures.

In reading Goodreads tells me I read 135 books, of the genres "fiction, fantasy and mystery". I thought I had gone off mysteries, but I did read a lot of Margery Allingham earlier in the year, so that may have influenced the stats. Around 70 of those were NetGalley review books. I got a lot of pleasure reading this year, and going through my Goodreads 'year in books' has reminded me of some fantastic reads and listens for the year.

And now we go on the same, into a year with a new number. it will, no doubt, be filled with coffee, friends, knitting, spinning, and reading. I will continue to go to trivia and knit-night and (more unfortunately) work. There will be surprises that I can't see coming, sorrows and joys. through it all, I will knit on.

Happy 2025!  

Previous years here:2023, 2022, 2021, 2020,  2019, 2018, 2017, 2016

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