Happy New Year 2011!!!

I am not one for resolutions anymore, because over the years, I noticed that they were always the same.  I like challenges better.  2009 was the Year of Decrapification.  Right before the holidays, I hired a professional organizer, and most of the decrapifying was accomplished before the end of the year.  2010 was the Year of Redecoration.  Right before the holidays, I had the painters come in and they've done the first floor.  (Are we seeing a pattern here?)

I picked an easier challenge for 2011 - The Year of the Cold Sheep.  For the muggles out there, it means that I will not buy yarn this year EXCEPT I have allowed myself to make a thoughtful purchase or two at DFW Fiber Fest in April and at Sock Summit in July.  But that's it. I will shop from stash only.  I have plenty of yarn to make all kinds of things.  I can be perfectly happy for a long time, and I am starting today...Well, actually, I started November 1, just to get myself in the groove. 

I deleted all the tempting e-mails from the local yarn shops advertising their year end sales.  I didn't go to any...and remember, the last two years, I worked at one of them?  It was hard, I tell you.

So, today, I will list my problem projects (remember that post a few weeks ago?) and start tackling them one at a time, but not before I start my first project of the year...a pair of socks in my self-imposed sock club.  For January, I am going to make Lucy Neatby's Mermaid socks.  I've made them before, but this time, I will use Lucy Neatby's Cats Pajamas yarn in the Mermaid colorway. 

Wishing you all a happy and healthy new year!

MK out.