A Knitting Affair

Its the beginning of a new year and a new decade. There have been a lot of changes in my life over the last year most of them positive even if at the time they didn’t seem that way. This year I am not going to be making any resolutions because I don’t keep them so there is no point in starting the year setting myself up for failure. My hope this year is to blog more, I actually miss blogging. This should be easier to do as I am now fostering dogs for ARF – Animal Rescue Foundation and blogging about the dogs and the experience. At the moment Hazel is in my care and you can read about her on my other blog Just One More Dog.

As for knitting, I have set up some goals for myself that I would like to accomplish. I joined a couple of groups in Ravelry to help me achieve my goals:

10 Shawls in 2010 – the group is pretty self explanatory. 8 of the shawls must be made with a minimum of 273 yards and the other 2 a minimum of 546 yards. I think that this will be a great stash buster for all the sock yarn that I have accumulated over the years.

IntSweMoDo2010 – International Sweater a Month Decodathon – Basically its knitting 12 adult sized sweaters. I keep saying I’m going to knit sweaters but then only do one or two a year.

Lace is my Bitch – I love the name of this group. It’s all about lace knitting and conquering it.

I have also joined a few other groups this year and thankfully my projects can cross between them. The biggest one for me though this year is joining up with the yarn snobs and doing their stashdown. It is a yearly total of yarn in and out but they doing it in quarterly sections.

Stashdown 2010 – This group is great because I can still buy yarn – my personal goal is to have at the least a zero if not negative balance on Dec 31, 2010. I have purchased a lot of yarn in 2009 which I haven’t received yet and it doesn’t count for this – thankfully – otherwise I would be in big trouble to begin with! Also, your yarn used up only counts once you have finished a project. Another inspiration for completing projects.

So, thats pretty much it for my knitting hopes in 2010. I am looking forward to this year and all that it has to offer!