Goals for 2014

Over on Ravelry there was a question about resolutions for this year.  One of mine is to blog more, but I was having computer trouble with the one I most frequently use.  It was not allowing me to type.  Fortunately I discovered I can blog from my phone and add photos.  Hopefully that will help to get more posts and pictures up.


Another goal for the year is to knit socks.  Iam taking part in a KAL in the Maureen Foulds group and we are knitting her pattern, Captain Hastings.  I love it.  So far I have got about three inches done and it is going fairly slowly, but there is progress being made.  These are being made for my sister and she will love them.  They are being knit toe up and are a simple knit purl design where the rib travels around the foot and leg.  A great first sock in my opinion.


This desire to knit socks comes from another of my goals, which is to not stop knitting over the summer.  It gets warm down here and I usually stop knitting from April to September and I hate that!  I figure if I knit smaller projects that will help.  I have discovered a love for hand knit dishcloths, and my mom loves them so I created a washcloth of the month club for her.  Those will keep me knitting but socks will also be a perfect summer knit. 


One other goal I have is to knit a bunch of small warm projects for my family.  We usually go up  north for Thanksgiving and this year when we went it was so cold!  It reminded me of when I was little and grew up in Maine and I had lots of great knits from my grandmother.  I want to take a bunch of knits up and let my family pick something out.  I have a bunch of yarn that doe not have a project for it and so these will be hats.  Or I have some leftovers from larger projects and those will be something.  Just depends on how the yarn speaks to me. 


Something else I want to do is build up my yarn stash.  It is really not that big so I want to focus on adding some yarns to it.  One way I am doing this is joining a yarn club.  I signed up for the Sheepy Time Knits There and Back Again yarn club.  I am so excited about this!  It was affordable since you pay before each shipment instead of all up front, the colors are inspired by the Hobbit and I could sign up for unexpected party, which means that I would get a variety of yarns over the year (2 worsted, 2 lace, and 2 fingering) so it will boost my stash quite nicely.

New years resolution.

I'm not normally a resolution maker, but this year I resolve to knit more and keep up the blog about it.
Right now I am signed up for two KALs over on Ravelry.  Details on those tomorrow. Plus I am doing a dishcloth of the month club for my mother and am working on the January one.
Short and sweet today.