Well, the start of a new year brings with it many new ideas, hopes and thoughts.
Being inspired by Project365, where a photo is taken every day and posted online (either
Flickr or a blog), I didn't want to be tied down by this and will take the concept and rework it into something that suits me. Perhaps that should be my aim for the coming year: don't try and change myself to fit into other people's expectations but allow me to come to terms with my own character and let it shine.
I plan to use my blog far more this coming year, not by giving myself the challenge of daily blogging, but you never know how it will turn out!
My hopes for the coming year...
... develop my writing outlets and have more work published in magazines...
... enjoy my many skills: cooking, sewing, knitting, painting, languages, animals...
... see our project in France develop into something resembling something more than a barn...
... try to maintain (and better) my health, both physical and mental, and not wallow in self pity that I haven't achieved unachievable goals (have you spotted that none of these are stated as resolutions for 2009?)...
Let's see how these outlines shape themselves in the coming months.
First finished project for 2009:
Winter Cottage Mittens, my very first pair, from a kit purchased from
Posh Yarn, hand-dyed
scrummy yarn and pattern developed by the lovely Dee from Posh. The pics are of the just finished mittens, not blocked so a little lumpy until I pull them off my hands to wash and block them!
I love mittens. I recall a bright red pair, with a cable down the front and a crocheted string to hold them in lace attached to my coat, from my childhood. I loved them and, in a recent conversation with
Mamo, found that I was very young when I had these (knitted by her fair hand) so they must have struck a cord to stick in my memory like this.
I feel these won't be my last mittens this year - any pattern suggestions?
