Crafts in 2025 Roundup, Knitting in the Wild, Profiteroles, and More

y crafts of 2025 roundup!

This is blog post 1555 on my writing blog!

I've been inspired by this 2025 in Review post by Osborn Fiber Studio

Here's my roundup of crafts in 2024...and an overview!

Winter
Our Flag Means Death knitting, Swiss porcelain, and more
Crafts in progress, and OFMD frame!

Spring
Tolkien's art in tapestry form!
Hodge podge, featuring yarn chicken!

Summer
Baking and other adventures
OFMD baking fun
Crochet, knitting, nature, dessert

Autumn
Baking, colouring, and other crafts
Edinburgh arts and crafts

I kind of seem to stay at the same level each year... My goals for 2025 were: "For this year, so far I've got a knit-a-long planned, for a pair of mittens! I've had the same goals for ages, to improve at crochet, to try spinning...but I think just making it a habit to knit more regularly will be enough!"

I sort of accomplished this. Finished the mittens, practiced crochet some more (my granny squares were more like granny circles...), and started and mostly finished a few other knitting projects!

The Osborn Fiber Studio 2026 Vision Board is very inspiring!

I don't want to set too many goals for 2026. My main goal is to take more time to teach the kids to knit. And to finish the blanket I started while on holiday. And take a good, hard look at my wips...

I love this crafty way of wrapping up a mystery gift book!

My father's gloves!

This is a belated addition to Knitting in the Wild: the character Wee John on Our Flag Means Death (screenshot of a photo by Aaron Epstein)

Cosy environments in which to knit...

Bead crafts!

Christmas crafts!

A new OFMD shirt!

Our snow tree!

Gifts for my birthday!

Baking profiteroles...

...with Samba Schutte!

They were so much easier than I expected!

A little buddy helping me bake

I've always wanted a blanket with the pattern from The Bay... Here it is in ornament form!

My grandmother's biscuits

I printed some fanfiction cards!

Pottery!

A Rhys Darby holiday card!

An OFMD robe

Cocoa cookies and whipped cream...

Trying to take photos of the moon with my phone...

A new-to-me coffee bean: Liberica!

Whoa.

Moomins!

Lutins!

The new knitting book from Osborn Fiber Studio! And starting my blanket...

The second time I made profiteroles!

Telling my fortune with a Turkish coffee. What do you see in the dregs?

Painting wee decorations

A handmade spider!

Blanket in progress

I love the scent of this candle

Ice cream sandwiches...

...and cookies

Wicked Care Bears!

Cookies baked by my sister-in-law 

Switzerland mornings...

Oatmeal cookies with mint chocolate chips from Canada (we can't get them here!)

Charcuterie board made by a friend, plus onions and sundried tomatoes with Brie...

Card designed by a friend!

Our Flag Means Death stickerboard by illustory

Fascinating scents by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab!

What have you been knitting or baking (or crocheting or spinning or weaving or smelling or planting or...) or tasting recently?
Please share!