So far so good. I decided to write my list and put the projects in order. There are only four I really need to worry about. The first is to get my friends birthday present finished. Next is the mystery blanket as I am in the zone with that, there are two hats I need to make and a sweater to sew up before December 25th.
It is all do able now I have lowered my expectations!  When I knew I was going to be incapacitated for 3 months I bought every colour of felt to make all the projects in the book super cute pin cushions.

I had every intention of making these as presents but of course it hasn’t happened.  If I finish the above items I may attempt one or two although I still have a number of  unfinished projects . These are a few of the projects I am in the middle of.

As well as this Glorafillia tapestry I have another smaller glasses  case and a Felicity Hall cushion tapestry to finish. Some of my mystery blanket I have ripped back the red as I wasn’t happy with the way it was knitting. The blue sweater only needs sewing up,  the blue and green is a skirt and the fabric in the back is a tunic that just needs hemming and the sleeves sewn in. I also have a few baby garments all cut out ready to sew as well as two summer tops and 2 pair of socks on the needle.  There’s probably a lot more sewing projects cut out but I don’t want to think about that!

This may be considered cheating slightly but here is my second daily post. I am not the most domesticated person but now that I can’t lift anything havier than a kettle for three months I have developed a sudden need to tidy up. It is so frustrating not being able to do the things I want yet knowing that if Icould I probably wouldn’t. Instead I am concentrating on finishing some of my knitted projects and getting to grips with using a tablet instead of a laptop.  I’m not sure if I can fully make the transition but I am trying to learn the word processing programs.

Watching Craft wars today Tori Spelling said some thing along the lines of a good crafter always finishes a project properly first before moving on to something else. She obviously doesn’t know many knitters. Of all the crafters I know only 2 stick to one project at a time. I do sometimes think I would  achieve more if I did one project at a time. That could work , as long as I stay offline , dont buy any magazines and don’t visit the library or any book stores.

I want to knit a baby girls cardigan as a christmas present but am sticking to my guns and concentrating on finishing the mystery blanket. When I’ve finished this post I aim to write a list of all the projects I want or need to complete and try to finish them one at  time. One thing that is good at the moment is that I can only knit my un finished projects or knit with the yarn I have easy access to as I can’t raid the stash.  The funny thing is though that my house is reminding me of the old childrens programme Playschool. Do you remembernow they used to say which window shall we go through today, or what will we find behind the x window? Well every time I open a drawer or a cupboard I seem to find some fabric or yarn.  It doesn’t bother me too much apart from the fact that I get all inspired and itching to do something new.

Oh wellanother night of sleeplessness beckons at least I’ll get another square finished only 13 more to go.

At the moment there is very little I can do other than a little knitting and lots of reading. There’s only so much television a person can watch.
At the beginning of the year had all the best intentions. I was going to make all my Christmas presents throughout the year so December would be a nice quiet month. Well we know how that went. I managed to make one pair of socks and have fallen way behind on my friends present for her fortieth as well as the mystery blanket. I had also planned to regularly update this blog but time got in the way. There have been times when I could have updated it but it would have been gobblygook.
I have managed to make  lots of items in 2013 but not as many as I would have liked. Why do we do this to ourselves?  We have a long list of things we would like to make, mainly for other people but keep adding to it. No one expects us to do it all,  well not everyone, but we still do it year after year.
I have bought a few bits and have decided that the ones I don’t manage to make will get gift tokens with a picture of their item to be made.
As it’s the first day of advent I am going to try and blog a bit each day even if its only a couple of sentences. Just in the run up to Christmas. This will hopefully encourage me to continue this in the new year. 

I have been having a bit of a sort out which is good. I have unearthed so many bits and pieces that I have looked at and thought what was I thinking.
On the plus side I have given three huge John Lewis carrier bags  full of fabric,  yarn and various other craft bits away to my knitting group. Unless I have some one or somewhere that will use the fabric or yarn I am not very good at getting rid of it. Whilst sorting out I came across a lot of unfinished projects, both sewing and knitting. It made me stop and think and for the first time I have come to the conclusion I have enough fabric, yarn and craft books. I definitely have too many books and am trying to be ruthless in the destashing of them.Even if I live to be a hundred I would not be able to make even just one project from each of them. There are some books I won’t be getting rid of , the Rowan magazines, my baby and children pattern books and any technique books.
In another post I will write about some of  my favourite craft books.

August was supposed to be a quiet month but it has proved to be a little busy. I was due to have surgery at the start of the month but it was cancelled as my consultant is on sick leave. Making the most of my time while looking after my gorgeous grandson I have been prepping for new workshops I will be teaching.

I know it’s a bit late in the month to write about aims for February, but I have had them since the start of the month. This year I want to use as much of my stash as possible. If I need something that I don’t have , my first point of call will be my friend Zoe’s stash and the same for her. If she doesn’t have what she needs she will raid my stash for it. We both have large stashes and are going to set each other targets each month to use as much of our yarn and fabric stashes.

My targets for this month are:
Finish the 2012 mystery blanket
Finish baby Zozo’s bibs
Knit a top for Harry FINISHED
Knit Brit lace kit socks

Zoe’s targets for February
Finish Dresses
Finish rabbit

These are the cushions I made for my daughter and son in law for christmas, The beige ones are for the sofa and the purple with embroidery are for their bedroom,