A Knitting Affair

It’s January 9 and knitting has occurred …

Citron Shawl in Malabrigo Lace - Velvet Grape

I started this on January 1. It’s a very easy knit but with having to add and decrease every few rows it keeps it interesting. The malabrigo is SO soft, I could just curl up into it.

I am working on my lightweight pullover. I am halfway through the raglan increases. As for my Shalom Cardigan, I have half of a sleeve left to do and still have a lot of Madelinetosh Eyre left over!

On Thursday (jan 8, 2010) I went and got my FIRST tattoo. Karen was getting this magnificent cupcake on her arm (go check it out) and her guy made time for me when he was done with her.

my first tattoo

It is in my mom’s handwriting and says “Mostest” which is what mom has always said to me and I now say to Cameron. The three daisies represent my mom, me and Cameron. He said that the blue one was him, the green one is me and the pink one is for grandma cuz she is the oldest so she gets the biggest. It is on the inside of my left wrist so that I can cover it up with my watch if need be. I smile whenever I look down at it and am SO happy with it.

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!