I know I said I would start this grand experiment on the 21st, and I know that it is now the 25th, but a horrible thing happened that tossed all my plans into the bin.
The flu hit the house.
And not a normal flu either. This is a flu on steroids. And the day my fever broke my husband started one. It's been a week I tell ya. We have officially canceled the holidays. Maybe next year.
So now I'm trying to start on the actual 1st. But still be over by 12/21 next year because darn it, that is the real holiday.
All right, so, plans for the year. Here we go:
The knitting word for the year is WARM. After this winter I want to be prepared. And I think I might be over the whole fair thing, mostly because after I work so hard on something I don't want to risk it.
So this year I plan to:
Replace the mittens that went through the wash and are now child sized with my first attempt at color work. Polska by SpillyJane
Make the husband a new French Press cozy, since he asked for one. Caffenate! by Coryna Blaskco
Make new hats for both of us. He wants a Cunning Jayne Hat by Renee Peterson (yes, my husband is a geek), I'm going to try to make an Argos by Deborah Tomasello that more or less matches the Polska mittens
New scarves for both of us. I want a Hitchhiker by Martina Behm in Blue Moon Socks that Rock in the Fire on the Mountain colorway. Flowermouse did one and it is gorgeous. And he might get a Noro Striped scarf by Jarod Flood, if he wants one.
New mitts for both of us. He will probably get Susie Rodger's Reading Mitts in this olive drab DK I have in stash, (hopefully I have enough). I haven't picked a pattern yet, I might use the same or I might go with lace.
I will finish the Grandmother shawl this year and make my Catkin by Carina Spencer in dark red and oatmeal
And then I am knitting a blanket. I'm knitting hexagons much like the blogger at VintageFusion Knits did here. But I'm using up my rainbow of acrylic scraps because we have cats. They will be hooked together with black crochet to give that stained glass effect. My goal is to do one a day but I'm already five days behind. I need to get knitting.
All of that ought to keep me pretty busy for knitting in the months ahead
The embroidery word this year is OLD. I have a number of old patterns that I have been wanting to finish literally since the 1990's, and this is going to be the year that I finish them all.
First up is the stocking for the kitties. Obviously not done in time for the holiday but it will be done for the next one
Then I have this darling little picture which I cannot find anywhere. It's a cross-stitch of a farm stand in Vermont. That's already on the frame so it's up next
I have these patterns saved from way back when of two cats in these amazingly beautiful gardens. Those are also aging rapidly and need to be done this year.
And then I will be doing stockings for the husband and I. He is getting the Workshop stocking and I am getting the Stitchers room stocking on the far right. Apparently they are coming back in style as "vintage". I remember when they were first published. I now feel old.
The sewing word this year is PIECES. Which you would think made sense for quilting, but that's not exactly what I mean.
Just like I am with knitting hexagons I'm also sewing them. I've delved into the stash to start English Paper Piecing one a day into what will hopefully be a bed quilt. I'm trying to sew in one a day but like the other I'm already behind.
I would like to make a Sylvia's Bridal Sampler quilt this year, but that will only come off if I can get the material in the next month or so. We'll have to see.
Otherwise it's going to be clothing and aprons this year. I have shirts to make, I need new summer skirts, and I am desperate for more aprons. A couple more of those might even be a priority.
In books I am staying away from series. While I like reading an entire series front to back I tend to run into trouble when I don't have the entire series at hand. That's bit me three times already so this year with one exception I am avoiding series. That one exception is the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson which my husband is also reading so my chances of getting the third book are high.
For school this year I want to study philosophy. I want to learn different ways of looking at the world. Not entirely certain which classes I'll be taking yet, I'm installing the new iTunesU app on my tablet and then I'm going to see what's offered.
I'm also going to read the bible cover to cover over the course of the year and share my thoughts and reflections on what I find there. I haven't read the bible since high school so it should be interesting. I will probably use a plan like this one but I'm hoping there's an app for that.
Fitness wise I'm shooting for 100 Pushups, 200 Situps and my first 5K. Because I might be round and have a list of health issues but that doesn't mean I can't get fit. Of course I said that last year but 2013 is going to go down as one of the more complicated years we've had so far.
My other goal is to keep us on a meal plan that allows us to effectively stay on something close to a Primal diet and to go all organic. Not that easy when you're on a tight budget, but we think it's doable. It certainly has been helping to keep us both healthier than we were before we started.
I'll be sharing more about what we eat and my "home management binder" in the next few weeks.
I do believe that covers all the bases. I doubt I'll be keeping up the format I've been using, but I plan to report every day or nearly every day as a way of staying accountable.
See you all in the new year.
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