New Year's Resolutions!

1.     Make enough small animals (15) to apply for Thread Guild Membership
           PROGRESS:  5

2.     Crochet ten potholders (a quick, easy goal to keep motivated!)
           PROGRESS:  one

3.     Crochet a garment
           DONE:   purple shrug for myself
           DONE:  blue shrug for daughter

4.     Make twelve items (one per month minimum) for charity
           PROGRESS:  one dog blanket for Snuggles project http://www.snugglesproject.org/

5.     Crochet a full-size afghan.
           PROGRESS:  nearly finished with the 99 required squares

6.     Sell items (i.e. booth at festival or website)
7.     Visit a real yarn store!
           DONE!  http://www.theyarncottagefairhope.com/    Fairhope, AL
                        cozy shop, super friendly people, a shop cat named Tilly,
                        and only 25 minutes from home--woo hoo!
           DONE!  http://www.yarniverse.com/  Memphis, TN
                        two-story heaven! the main room was working alive with women knitting, talking, helping.
                        VERY friendly ladies, amazing button collection, lots of knitted and crocheted items hanging
                        in shop.  I bought three balls of yarn and brass stitch markers.

8.     Buy a new sewing machine

9.     Teach daughter more sewing skills and maybe crochet

10.   Get some traffic on this blog!!!