Season’s Feelings Holiday Mood Scarf Make-Along Starts Soon!
Season’s Feelings Holiday Mood Make-Along
Over the Summer, I had the pleasure of hosting 500+ knitters and crocheters for the first mental-health make-along. Over a 3-month period, using the same technique used for temperature blankets, we knit or crocheted a Wrapghan using colors to log out emotions. The experience was so impactful that I’ve decided that this practice will be a series of make-alongs. I’m happy to announce the next one, The Season’s Feelings Mood Scarf-Make Along. This is a FREE to join event hosted on my community platform, Stitchwell Social Club.
Merry or Meh?
The holidays can bring with them a range of emotions. From nostalgia over childhood favorites and the joy of making new memories with loved ones, to event-related social anxiety and grief from a loss that seems magnified during times of cultural togetherness.
The Season’s Feelings Mood Scarf MAL is a stitcher’s conduit for processing, remembering, and recording those feelings with a low-demand project to suit the busy season and a community to support us.
In a world where everything is seemingly focused on the “outer us,” the goal for the second mental health make-along in this series is to encourage stitchers to take some time for ourselves and focus on what’s going on inside during a season that can be jam-packed with emotions. My hope is that it will also help to normalize conversations among fiber crafters to include mental health challenges, which can sometimes be amplified between the fall holidays and New Year’s.
‘Tis the season for some self-care. I’m here for it, and for you!
What Even Is a Mental Health Make-Along?
(TL;DR It’s sort of like journaling with yarn … and friends …and events.)
The Season’s Feelings Holiday Mood Scarf Make-Along is my take on the popular temperature blanket knit/crochet-alongs, but with a mental health twist. The first of my Mental Health Make-Alongs, the Moodring Wrapghan MAL, was such a meaningful experience that the consensus was that we should keep the practice going!
Beginning on November 1, 2025 with a live Zoom meet-up, and through January 2026, instead of tracking weather, we’ll be tracking our emotions through the holiday months (from Dia De Los Muertos through New Year’s month), then stitching a just 1 square (or 1 round, depending the route you choose) in the shade that corresponds with how you’re feeling that day.
By building in a hearty amount of “skip days” and multiple project approach options, I’ve tailored this experience to be doable for a range of schedules. This time of year can be stressful. This make-along shouldn’t be. Hopefully, it will be quite the opposite. In truth, it can be as much or as little as you need it to be!
Join to download the Welcome Packet with more info!
Season’s Feelings Scarf: Pick Your Palette
For this make-along, I’ve partnered with Berroco and Knit Picks to bring you yarn choices for every budget, and available at JimmyBeansWool.com, Knit Picks, and/or Crochet.com. They’re all soft, cozy, and beautiful choices!
As inspiration, I’ve put together TWELVE palettes in THREE different yarn lines. You’re welcome to use whatever yarn you’d like for the Self-Care Season Scarf, but if you choose to purchase any of those recommended, I’d really appreciate it if you’d use the listed affiliate links. Please and thank you. 😉
Berroco Ultra Alpaca
Meet the Palettes
•Berroco 
Ultra Alpaca
(A luxurious Alpaca/Wool blend with subtle color changes and a slight halo)
•Berroco Vintage
(This one never lets a stitcher down — a go-to wool with loads of colors)
•Knit Picks Wool of Andes
( Affordable workhorse Peruvian wool.)
I’m looking forward to making (better mental health) along with you, this holiday season!
