Episode 50 – 2015 goals (shownotes)

Spinning:  I finished 2.3 oz of black rainbow rolags from Yarn Geek Fibers.  It is a 160 yd 2-ply skein…approximately sport weight.

WIPs:

1. handspun Age of Brass & Steam shawl
2. Wintersweet by Boo Knits
3. Caesious by Hunter Hammerson.  This is from the new book Curls.
4. Zombody likes Fruitcake socks
5. Merry Merry socks

New Stash & Gifts:

1. Desert Vista Dyeworks sock yarn…I’ve almost collected all of the zombie skeins!
2. The Cyborg’s Craft Room yarn: Snowday and Wildflower both on the Associkilate base
3. Hobbledehoy battlings in Galactus
4. Curls by Hunter Hammerson
5. The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook
6. Magpies, Homebodies & Nomads by Cirilia Rose

2014 Goals in Review:

1. Knit more socks than in 2013.  (I knit 12 pairs in 2013, and 11 in 2014)
2. Knit more sweaters than in 2013.  (I knit 1 in 2013 and 1 in 2014).
3. Spin more on spindle.  (I spun more than in 2013…but only because I had just purchased the spindle at the very end of 2013).
4. Purchase a wheel.  (Purchased a Kromski Sonata on 2/15/2014)
5. Stay consistently at 5 WIPs or less.
6. Complete 1 quilt.
7. Complete 1 cross-stitch.
8. Knit over 5000 yds.  (I knit 32 projects totalling 10,372 yds)

2015 Goals:

1. Finish at least 1 pair of socks per month.  Motivation for this is the DVD unofficial knitalong in the DVD Ravelry group.
2. Spin 2 lbs.
3. Knit 15,000 yds.
4. Knit 2 sweaters.
5. Stash Down:
   1. no yarn purchases until DFW
   2. Incoming yardage can only equal 1/2 of what is outgoing
6. Create new products for the Suburban Stitcher shop.