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Saturday, January 07, 2023

Craft On: Baptismal Gowns, Planning, and the Year in Review

The end of one year and beginning of the next is always a time for planning, reflecting, and cleaning. So, that is what is going on here. My new design planner is filling up, and I am making priority lists for projects and designs, as well as planning out the rest of the year for homeschooling, homemaking, and projects on our property. This baptismal gown is a little further along than the picture shows, but not as far along as it should be. We still have a little time before the baptism, though. So this gown, Yathrib, and a new design for the Trade Winds collection are my priorities this month.

A lot of my work kind of fizzled out toward the end of the year. We had so much changing and going on here at home, that I slowed down quite a bit. However, my momentum is coming back now, as it usually does. While I read a lot in the past few months, I didn't finish any books. I'm close to finishing one now, and have a couple on my list to follow. I finished more projects this year than I did in the two years prior, which I see as a good sign.

If you missed out on my 12 Days sale, you are not completely out of luck. Wven though the Christmas feast is over, the season isn’t. And it’s Christmas Day for the folks on the Old Calendar. So, through next Saturday, January 14, 2023, 25 of my best selling patterns are on sale for 20% off with the coupon code MerryChristmas. You can find my sale bundles on PayHip and Ravelry in the link in my profile above and the coupon is valid in both stores. Enjoy!

So, on to my recap. Here are my lists of finished knit and crochet projects (I should include my sewing projects this year) and books I read to completion. My goal for next year is to read about twice as many books, and more non-fiction. Although I enjoyed almost all the books I read this past year, my favorites really were the non-fiction titles. My knit night group has been growing and I really hope we keep up and become closer.

For my crafting, I'd like to complete about twice what I did this year (including sewing) and publish ten patterns. Two of those patterns are written, with samples nearly finished. Two are going to be knit by sample knitters and I plan to have the patterns written to completion in the next two or three months. There is another large pattern project I want to complete in the next six months, both the knitting and the writing and editing, and a smaller one for the same collection. This leaves four more patterns to write and knit. If I do this all, I should have a pattern out in the next month or so, another in May or June, one in August, one in September, a collection of five (!) in November made in partnership with Malabrigo, and a final design published in December. What are your goals for this year?

2022 Finished Projects

2022 Books (including read aloud books, but not picture books/story books)

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 12:04 AM
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