Extreme Knitting Calendar

You can call this a non-traditional Knit to This pick. You can also call it 365 days of fun.

Not only is Betsy Fitzpatrick’s Extreme Knitting 2026 calendar full of images that will make you want to take your knitting as far into the wild as possible—on glaciers! on mountain tops! on red rocks!—it’s also an opportunity to dig a little deeper into the places themselves.

Barbara Kingsolver—yes, the Pulitzer Prize winner—is pictured in the header image, having her own knitting adventure with some beasts of rural Kentucky. Now would be a great time to listen to her Demon Copperhead, a loose re-telling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. Not only is the story a gripping one, her words will take you to Appalachia, if only in your mind’s eye.

You can also adventure to Colorado.

Above is a tangle of knitters all wearing their Mesa Verde hats from Nancy Bates’ Knitting the National Parks book. Which is a great reminder to watch (or re-watch) Ken Burns’ excellent documentary about how these treasures came to be while you knit your own chapeau.

Fitzpatrick and her photographer spouse John (he’s Grumpy Highlander on Instagram) have assembled a dozen images of knitters knitting in the great outdoors (mostly) that are a jumping off point for your own adventures in the coming year. And if you can’t get there in person, you can always get there in spirit while you knit and daydream.

Kingsolver and mountaineer photo credit: Grumpy Highlander