Last January I had big plans of keeping track of goals vs. resolutions throughout the year. Well that was big flop long before I stopped blogging in March. I'd like to try again each month to come up with around 5 things that I want to accomplish. Some may tie into the 2015 goals I'm sharing with you now, while others may just be on a month by month whim!
1. As I mentioned in my last post, this past Christmas I crafted far less gifts this year than for the past few years. For a while I felt bad, almost guilty about this, but there came a point in December where I had to just "Let It Go" and remind myself that my family would not think that I cared less about them this Christmas just because their gift came from a store vs. my crochet hook or sewing machine! I've certainly said it before, directly after the holiday stress and rush that I'm going to start crocheting Christmas gifts earlier next year! Well, to make it seem a bit less daunting, I thought I'd just hold myself accountable to one gift per month. In theory this means I should have 12 gifts made by Christmas 2015 - makes sense right? We shall see how it goes!
2. Shortly after midnight New Years Eve (well, technically Day) I proclaimed that this was my big New Years Resolution for 2015! I had been thinking it for a couple of days at this point and hadn't shared with Jonathan. For some odd reason I was bursting with excitement to share my level of commitment to this over the coming year. Sadly, Jonathan's response was to scoff and say "what do I get if you buy yarn?" I was definitely disappointed that he wasn't taking me seriously (he later apologized, he's really not a stay up late kinda guy and was getting tired cranky). It also fueled me to prove him wrong!
Have no fear though, I will have ZERO problem crocheting lots this year while also keeping this goal. This is, of course, because I quite possibly have the yarn stash to end all yarn stashes:
Mostly importantly, I'd like you all to please disregard the laundry and coats hanging in the doorway, and the bags stacked up on the floor. My craft room is most definitely still a work in progress!
My yarn bin was designed by me, and fully built and executed by Jonathan and my Dad [who built everything in my craft room.] The cabinet is deep enough that what's in there is 2 (sometimes 3 or 4) skeins deep right now. As you can also see things like purple, veregated, baby, pound of love and cotton yarns are missing from my yarn cabinet. There are 3 large plastic bins of veregated yarn along with 2 large plastic bin of purple yarn under the counter top just to the left of my yarn cabinet (bins are similar to THESE and were purchased at Walmart 2 summers ago). My baby yarn is all stacked in a hanging cabinet in the corner of the same side of the room. My cotton yarn and pound of love stash is in 3 plastic bins (2 of cotton, 1 of pound of love) in the floor to ceiling cabinets that were built to hold these sort of standard size Sterilite totes (20 in total, 10 pink and 10 silver if anyone truly cares other than me!) And as I was telling my mom this morning this doesn't include the multiple bins and bags of yarn which is either part of a WIP or was purchased specially for something which I haven't given up on actually making one day...
So, as you can see, I will NOT be running out of yarn anytime soon this year, or next, or likely the year after that! I have controlled the desire to walk through the yarn aisle at Walmart, or just swing by Michaels as I drive by, or even look at online sales for yarn so far. Yes, I know, big whoop we're only 7 days into 2015! But I'm trying. I do foresee the possibility of needing more of a neutral like white, black or cream or a specific shade [say of blue] by mid year, but for now I'm really concentrating to use what I have!
And one day, what yarn I have will fit in my specially designed and built yarn cabinet. It just won't be today. Or tomorrow :-)
3. I'm a bit on the fence on this Goal since typing these out back on New Years Eve. It's taken me quite a few days to write this post around everything else in life, it's now January 7th and I haven't begun to pull together the materials to do this. Heck, I haven't even come close to finishing my Mood Blanket from 2014!! As always around this time of year, everyone is talking about goals and projects for the following year. First, I had to Google search what a Temperature Blanket even was. Once I knew the answer to that, I felt a bit stupid for not putting that one together on my own. As I kept looking, I found this pattern which got me exciting by the idea. Now on the 7th of January, I haven't begun, my Mood Blanket hasn't been crocheted since last February (I have notes for every day of last year) and I'm starting to wonder if I want to bother....
The only thing keeping me holding onto the idea is 1. I love the pattern and it would allow me to try it out 2. I think this blanket would make an awesome Christmas present 3. if it gets to be too much, or I don't like the pattern after all I can always quit (keeping track of moods felt so much more personal last year that even when I had packed up the yarn for it, I still wanted to keep track of my moods throughout the year) and 4. think of all the yarn I would use up!
We'll see what happens. Maybe I'll get some motivation over the weekend to dig in...
4. Cutting in dangerously close already, aren't I?? Can't believe my last post back was already a week ago! Life has just gotten so busy lately. Gonna try and be more organized and write with purpose in 2015. Of course, if I have nothing interesting to write; I may miss a week, but I'm going to try and be more dedicated to the blog this year. I write for me, and don't want it to be stressful, or feel like work - I just don't want to go 8 months between posts again!
5. I didn't read much at all last year. I'd like to change that. I have books on the shelf (and far more still in boxes), books on my kindle, books in my Amazon wishlist and even an Audible.com subscription so it's not that I'm not interested in books, or reading/listening. More importantly, when am I going to fit reading into my day with everything else??!?
Up next: My January specific goals. I will try and make that post a little shorter too!
Love your yarn closet! Best wishes as you work toward your goals. Heather
ReplyDeleteThank you Heather! I am hopeful that I am more "success" than I was in 2014 with them!
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