Happy New Year!

Just wanted to take a minute and wish my followers and other readers best wished for a happy and healthy new year!

I don't (as a rule) make hard and fast resolutions... never have really...

I do have a few exciting knitting related things coming up this year though... I will see the Year of Projects group through to the end of June this year - which I have been a part of since July 1st, 2011... I will also be participating in a 12 for myself in 2012 group on Ravelry. These 2 groups have really helped me to focus my knitting a little more... and my productivity has boomed because of it! My WIPS are getting under control and I am actually finishing things! What is exciting, is in the 12 for myself group, I am being forced to make somethings for myself! And for someone who historically doesn;t do this, that is amazing. Within this same group I will be participating in my very first Knit ALong (KAL). Super excited still!

One thing that is coming up at the end of this month is a "Crop for the Cure" event that I have participated in before, but as a scrapbooker - thing time I will likely take a bunch of knitting projects... 22 hours of creating bliss! All going toward a good cause for Breast Cancer! I have a couple of gals at work that would love for me to make them a headband or two - I can get those started and finished in an evening, and may just do a few of them, and when the co-workers ask how much, I will tell them - make a sizeable donation to the Cosmic Girls for the weekend to end breast cancer and I will be happy.... stash year for something that doesn't take much time, but can go toward a great cause...

That leads me into another thing I would like to do more of this year... charity Knitting. I may make a few hats and scratch mitts for the pediatric department in a couple of local hospitals, as well as mitts and hats for an inner city school that I used to work at - for children that often don't come to school well equiipped for cold weather.

Amazing how a new year seems to bring on a world of new possibilities... thank you for taking the time to read my blog and follow my journey...