Wrapping Up 2025
- Susanna
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As usual, at the end of December I once again take stock of my knitting life over the past 12 months. How much yarn did I knit in 2025? Which project took the longest to make... and why? In this blog post you'll find all that plus what I designed in 2025 and the most-read blog posts of the year.
Here's a summary of what I knit, designed, and blogged about in the year 2025.
Knit
In 2025, I finished 14 projects and knit 11.2 kilometers (or 7 miles) of yarn. On average, one project took 34 days from cast-on to bind-off and used up 805 m (or 880 yd) of yarn. Compared to 2024, I finished a project in half the time but used around 200 m less yarn per project. In short, my 2025 knits were smaller and faster… despite knitting no less than 3 sweater dresses this year!
The year 2025 was, again, mostly about socks and sweaters. I knit 4 sweaters, 4 pairs of socks, 3 sweater dresses, and 3 cowls (one of which was a repeat and re-do project).
My biggest project this year was the Heather colorwork dress from Novita that I knit with sock yarn scraps. It took 2060 meters (or 2250 yd) of fingering-weight yarn in a total of 29 colors! Being all-over colorwork, it's understandable it was my slowest project of the year: exactly 12 weeks or 84 days from the beginning of September to (nearly) the end of November.
Honorable mention for the second largest project — and my favorite knit of the year — goes to tin can knits' Love Note. I knit mine combining Brushed Alpaca Silk from DROPS with a handspun yarn that just kept going and going and going… My Love Note is definitely not the cropped version you see in the pattern photos but a nearly knee-length dress.
In contrast, the smallest and fastest projects of the year were both cowls. The smallest in terms of using the least yarn (190 m or 210 yd) was the Soft As Starlight cowl.
The fastest project — in terms of taking the least time — was the Villikaura cowl which was finished in just 6 days.
However, there's another way to measure speed in knitting: meters of yarn knitted per day. On average I transformed yarn into finished fabric at the speed of 28.8 meters per day. My fastest — or let's say most efficient — project of the year was the Nomad colorwork sweater form Patons. This sweater consumed around 1030 m (1120 yd) of yarn and I completed it in 11 days, averaging at a rate of 93 meters per day. Can I say I was a little obsessed?
Designed
In 2025, I released 8 new knitting patterns:
4 sweaters: Lyrides, Wychwood, State of Flux, and Gilded Haze
1 cardigan: Happenchance
1 sweater dress: Draconides
and 2 cowls: Villikaura and Soft As Starlight.
With 360 hearts on Raverly, the most popular pattern of the year was Happenchance, a contiguous-sleeve cardigan with a shifting cable panel that covers the entire back.
My personal favorite, though, is State of Flux, a fully reversible top-down raglan pullover with brioche details on the cowl neck, sleeve cuffs, and hem.
My next design, a colorwork yoke sweater in two colors of DK-weight yarn, is already on the way and will hopefully go into testing before the year is over.
Blogged
In 2025, I wrote 22 blog posts (including this one), one fewer than last year.
The most-read post published this year was What Is an Asymmetric Compound Raglan? (May 2025) with over 4.4K views. The post examines the three differences between conventional and compound top-down raglan sweaters, and explains why compound raglan shaping results in better fitting and more size-inclusive patterns.
With nearly 3K words and 17.8K characters, this was also the longest post with the longest average reading time.
With 1.6K views, the title for the second most-read post goes to another tutorial: How to Knit Centered Median Increase (CMI) from March 28. In this blog post I demonstrated how to do the decorative double increase used in Lyrides.
Posts about knitting trends are always popular with my readers and this year was no exception. The third most-read post of the year was Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 Knitting Trends (August 2025), also with 1.6K views. In this post you learned what's trending in the current season: cables, saddle shoulders, full-fashioned shaping, soft color palettes, and mixing colors to make heathered or marled fabric.
How did your 2025 knits go? Let me know in the comments!
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