Good Heavens!

My sorting and kitting and photographing took me into the wee hours Saturday night! Had to revise the list of Crazy January starts because of a strong shot of reality as I looked through all my WIPs. I decided that I needed to put mostly smalls on the crazy list, so that there was a hope of actually completing them in 2012.

I especially did my best to include only projects for which I already had the supplies. I still need a few skeins of this or that, and I certainly would have liked to have different fabrics. On the whole, though, I managed to put myself in a position where I truly could stitch from stash next year. It's a goal I've made over and over again, but never been able to hold to. However, I have a dream of building a sunroom/garden room/stitching room in the next few years and so saving up for it is a bit of a priority.

My boys find the whole idea of WIPocalypse hilarious. Especially given the vast number of WIPs that I have. They had fun ribbing me about it at dinner time. Laugh on, little men...we'll see how much I can stitch next year! (They find the whole idea of the world ending on December 22, 2012 hilarious, too. I mean, we all do. No one knows the time of the world's end.)

Last night, I at least got all of my WIP pics uploaded to Flikr and have started to link them to the post itself. But I thought I'd show you a couple of my newest starts that I just had to get on to the list before the end of the year. (I started six, but I'll just show you two today.)


Shakespeare's Peddler "Jenny Bean Creation Sampler"


L&L "Celtic Autumn" which I'm doing in a conversion to greens and oranges.

My other project for next year is the 365 project. I'm expecting a book on taking photographs to come soon from Amazon and I spent money on a nice digital Canon Rebel last year, so I want to learn how to take better photos. Maybe this will motivate me. If not, it's an easily dropped commitment. (I like having a few commitments that are easily dropped. It's like having a get-out-of-guilt-free card.)



Oh yeah, and did I mention I want to knit a pair of socks? Yeah, I really do. I can crochet a bit, but I have absolutely no idea how to knit. I just know that all those socks that I see posted on blogs make my mouth water. So, being the leap before you look kinda gal, I bought myself some fantabulous little bamboo double-pointed size 4 knitting needles, a book called "I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Socks?" and a couple skeins of yarn in a very scrumptious, self-striping color. I've also bookmarked a couple tutorials on the actually knitting process and I think I'm ready to go. Another rather inexpensive and easily dropped commitment.