New Years Letter Done!

New Year's cards work so much better for me than Christmas cards. We're even ahead of my self imposed schedule of having the cards out by Dec 31st 2012. That sentence explains my reasoning.

I will spare you the letter which basically just recapped the year which is all here anyway. But here is the photo collage that accompanied it. Now onto the next New Years goal. And I am way, way, totally ahead of schedule!

2011 Goals: Recap

Last year I posted my goals for the year. Some I mastered, some, not so much.

• No Fiber purchases till May. Excluding clubs. In May, I have Shepherd's Harvest. A local fiber arts festival. I enjoy shopping there. Fiber purchased before then places my SH fund at risk.*

Success!

• To compete in the Tour De Fleece again, no matter where I am. That should be a given, but I'll be traveling for part of it. Oh the challenge! I'll have to watch it online and spin. Triple challenge!

Success!

• To finish a pair of socks (sound familiar??)

Came to terms with the fact I wasn't a sock knitter so I'm calling that a success!

• To make a Wrapigan

Never bought the pattern or the yarn.. I may still do this though.

• To make a sweater of any kind

I finished a vest - thereby taking steps toward a sweater. Really a vest is a sweater without sleeves.. It's all about the perspective. So I'm saying 50% credit.

• To spin the yarn for, and then knit a Shipwreck Shawl.* Fiber purchased for this will be allowed.

I have the fiber I THINK. I'm giving myself 30% credit here.

• To do a 4 ply yarn.

Done, plus some cabling, and other things.

• Label all yarn and start recording what I spin.

YES! Success! 

• Enjoy the process more. I am a goal person, not a process person.

I'm giving myself 50% here again. I still tend to rush through things.

• Stick to my monthly budget. Last year I succeeded in saving money into long term savings accounts. Now I need to work on a short term savings account. See goal #1 :)

Unemployed. So I guess I did stick to a budget..

• Take some time for myself and my health. I have a health club membership, I need to use it!

I realized I hated the health club, dropped the membership, and started walking and running. Much better. I ended up focusing on diet a lot more than I'd planned. 

Now to ponder over the goals for this year...

The Year of the Sweater

2012 Goal: I am dubbing this year: The Year of the Sweater AKA The year I figure out how to knit to gauge and make wearable clothes, not just outerwear.

I will be taking steps toward this soon, though right now I am trying to finish my Traveling Woman shawl. I am to the lace part. I am not sure the last 2 rows were correct. Knitting while watching The Help (I'd already read the book) wasn't a great plan tonight. I am about to go count the last row and find out.

But next week, I will be beginning a sweater. A LYS does a knit along every month with a sweater. How hard can this be? Don't answer that.

I have other goals, other thoughts on the year, but we'll start with this one. Year of the Sweater.