Every year we spend December thinking about what we accomplished (and didn't accomplish) this year, and what we want to accomplish the next. The same is true for crafting, and this year for the first time I really do have to use the all-encompassing word "crafting."
This year in addition to knitting, I started spinning fiber in a big way. I actually learned how to spin in 2012, but I had been bumbling along with a drop spindle until last February when a friend made me a great offer on an Ashford Kiwi spinning wheel and all the trimmings. I went from making classic ugly beginner's yarn to producing yarn that looks - if I may toot my own horn - pretty respectable.
And now I'm stuck, because the problem is that I can create yarn faster than I can knit it. Two weeks ago I officially ran out of yarn storage space. I have a personal moratorium on spinning until I can knit enough to clear up some room. Oops.
I also picked up cross stitch this year, because I had a burning desire (seemingly out of nowhere) to buy cheap cross stitch kits and change the words to something inappropriate. I'm pretty proud of the 23rd Psalm kit where I subbed in some rude Macklemore lyrics. I'm currently working on a Footprints kit where I'm subbing in a morbid quote from Hannibal Lecter.
You know; your standard good clean fun.
Next year I would love to find a way to devote more time to cross stitch. I have only been working on it for an hour or two a week, and at that rate, progress is very slow.
So basically my crafting goals for 2014 are to "stop time and use it to catch up on my crafting projects." Sigh!
Image courtesy Flickr/Kara Michele
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