I was pleasantly pleased yesterday to see an email from The Healthy Knitter announcing the Project Peace 2023! She's taken a 2 year break and I hadn't even thought about it but oh sweet peace and more of it I can always use. I grabbed a Madelinetosh fingering yarn I had bought just because I liked the color and stubbornly stayed up to midnight wrapping it by hand. Here I am trying to find little slices of time to start this project that has been so important to me in the past. I'm now down in NJ taking care of my 91 yr old Dad who has dementia. For three months I've lived in one half of his condo while my husband was in Maine. So Project Peace is a very welcoming distraction.
This year there's no pre-planned pattern but with the suggestion we either reuse a Project Peace pattern from previous years or another shawl pattern she likes. See her post about details: November 30th and the first post of the month to get started: December 1st.
I've decided to do the first Project Peace 2016 pattern because I enjoyed the rythmic nature of the knit. Granted that first cowl is stored away now with everything else in storage in New Jersey. My husband just arrived to stay last week with a truck and my yarn and projects are somewhere in there. I never finished it because I couldn't keep up with the daily quota required to finish the knit in 21 days. Four rows a day will give you a finished cowl. I'm going to try it again, but if I can only do 2 rows a day perhaps an extended Project Peace into 2024 wouldn't be remiss.
I'll try and update on how I'm doing on my Project Peace knit and what I'm reading later (Lynn Kurland books about Medieval days, light hearted romance & time travel, favorite books of mine). I just wanted to post a quick one to give fellow knitters and Peace enthusiast a heads up about the Project Peace being back this year.
Enjoy!
