What Challenges You Makes You Better

Now is that time I will get reflective and philosophical about 2014 and knitting.  My brain is still spinning with the challenge and confusion of the Rainbow Cardigan, but it is under control.  

The one thing I wanted to accomplish in 2014 was to develop a blog where I would reflect on knitting.  Hey, I did it!  I am very proud of Knitting: A Love Story and all the things I have learned during this endeavor.  I have met so many wonderful people both in person and online.  I have finished many TBFL (to be finished later) projects as an unanticipated consequence.  After all, I had to have something to write about!  I have connected and reconnected with friends who sent pictures of my knitted gifts to them.  Knitting: A Love Story has helped me be a more thoughtful, intentional knitter.  

Sooooo, what are my knitting goals for this year?  I think I mentioned in an early post that in my work life I was a strategic planner.  Goal setting is the way I focus myself on a path and see results.  It is my list for the year so I can check things off and feel accomplished at the end of the year.  I love lists!  Even though I will have goals, wonderful, serendipitous yarn, projects and opportunities will tempt me and I will succumb.  But I least I had an idea about where I wanted to go.  

Goal 1:  I want to continue Knitting: A Love Story and make it better.

Goal 2:  I want to take a knitting class and learn something new.  The last class I took was for the Knit Swirl.  I had forgotten how much I love social knitting and being taught something new.  I love learning something from a knitting book, but there is just something special about being publicly taught a skill.

Goal 3:  I want to finish the Kauni sweater I started at least five years ago.  

See those little lines?  I need to cut up the front of the sweater, then make the button band and button holes.  I also need to cut for the sleeves, pick up stitches then knit the sleeves.  Needless to say, cutting into this beautiful piece of knitted fabric with challenge me, but as the title says, "What challenges you makes you better."  So I guess I will come out of this, well better.

Goal 4:  I want to make one of the fabulous patterns I have with the scrumptious Twisted Fiber Art yarn.  I really don't need to say more about this.

Goal 5:  I want to visit Crafty Lady Trio in Macomb.  I love that store but haven't been able to introduce you to it.  

Goal 6:  Dick and I are considering a trip up the west coast from San Francisco to Vancouver.  If we do this I want to visit those fabulous women at Knit Purl in Portland who have turned me on to so many wonderful fibers and projects.  I can't wait to meet Oleya.  

Goal 7:  I want to begin working through The Knitter's Life List.

Goal 8:  I want to knit more with Linda.  We used to knit together once a week.  With Linda's busy schedule as an elementary principal, we never will be able to do that, but we can do more.

If I accomplish something on all of these, I will feel accomplished.

I have a teaser for next time.  What is this?

See you in a couple of days.