How time flies when you're stressed out. Oops! I meant having fun :)
This year, I decided that I wasn't going to set up a big ole list of projects that I won't even get half done. No. This year I have only 2 afghans that I plan on concentrating on. One is a graph afghan for son #2. I've done graph afghans (Star Wars) for dh, ds #1 and even my brother (even though the only graph part was the logo at the top. So, I asked ds #2 what kind of afghan he wanted, hoping that he wouldn't want a piture of any kind. That was a fruitless hope. Of course he wanted an afghan like Daddy and Bubba. He is big into Kingdom Hearts video games and has an absolute love for the weapons from said game. They're called keyblades and he even got a couple of life-sized ones for Christmas. So that's what he wants on his afghan. So I get to sit down with graph paper and pictures of his favorite keyblades and graph it out and color it in. That part of it I don't really mind all that much. It's the cross stitching that is really tedious. Anyway, he wants not just keyblades. He also wants to have the skull from The Punisher. He agreed on alternating squares of keyblades and that skull. I just happened to think that I'll need to get pictures of the logo for Kingdom Hearts and The Punisher. Panels for top and bottom, you understand.
The other afghan is for a birthday present. I can't say who for, since I think that person occasionally drops by my blog. Anyway, I bought the Leisure Arts leaflet 63 Crochet Cable Stitches. I started it in Red Heart Super Saver Cafe, thinking that would be a great color for said recipient, but although I love, love, love the color, it just doesn't speak that person's name to me. So I am now in search of another color. I'm going to keep working on the brown one while I'm getting the other two ready to go. It will give me something to work on in between keyblades and be a nice change from the other color (whatever that may be).
Dd has already asked me to make her yet another birthday dress. Her birthday is in June so I'll have plenty of time. I'm hoping to get her to pick something besides pink ;) After almost 6 years, I'm about pinked out. I would like to do a nice lavender or maybe a robin's egg blue. I nice shade of green would also be great. Oh, well. I'll just have to wait and see what she picks out.
So, that's my list of projects for this year. It's not very long. I don't have a project for almost every month of the year and I will definitely be able to get it all done. I'm hoping to add knitting this year. I'm learning and I am eager to be almost as proficient at knitting as I am at crocheting.
Speaking of proficient crocheting. I almost forgot to mention that I will be trying my hand at the Masters in Basic Stitches correspondence course from Crochet Guild of America . I'll have a year to complete it, so that's another reason I haven't tried to plan a whole load of projects for this year. Wish me luck!!!
