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                             Echoes of Color cowl

I love the electronic age for sure. Absolutely everything you can think of and more right there on your phone! But lately I've found myself reverting back to paper. For instance I do share an electronic calendar with my husband but I still have my paper planner with all the same things written down as well as to do lists and other notes in them. So I decided to do this with my knitting also.

Beginning September 1st I started using a notebook for knitting. At the beginning of the month I write the month and year and make a list of goal FOs for the month, a list of happy yarny mail that will be coming that month & a wish list of things I'd like to buy that are yarny related. Then daily I write the date along with a few words what was going on that day as well as what I knitted. For example:
MONDAY  17th:
back hurting, school, husband started job at home         Fraternal socks, Basketweave scarf

Jacinta Shawl

At the end of the month I made a list of new cast ons I had done for September (Lounging Top, Basketweave scarf & Echoes of Color cowl), along with FO's for September (Jacinta shawl & Echoes of Color cowl). I am loving this so much! I am not artsy so my notebook doesn't look fancy, thus why I'm not posting a picture of it, but I really think it has helped me quite a bit! I can really get a nice overview of what I am working on plus at beginning/end of month assess my knit goals. Does anyone else use a similar method?

Please see all my projects on my Ravelry or Instagram pages as: AlwaysYarnFirst
Pictured are my finished objects for September with links to the pattern pages.
                                                                                                         




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