What da...I still have this??

Well 2011 is well under way, ready or not. I spent New Years' Day, cleaning out and organizing my craft room and was overwhelmed at how much stuff I hadn't touched in years! Books with their tantilizing covers beckoned me from their perch at the craft corner @ Barnes & Noble, each promising intellectually stimulating projects. They now mock me, having never been cracked open since their intial viewing prior to purchase! Fabrics, neatly folded in about 6 rubbermaid bins, buttons, grommets, let's not even mention the 151 patterns in my Ravelry queue! I decided at that point, I would do something besides collect fabrics, yarns and books and haven't bought a book or magazine since 12/1/10. Laugh if you must but it is quite an accomplishment since I've been to the crackhouse bookstore at least 6 times already. One project from a different book every month is the goal. I've already made a bunch of curtains (their hanging, pending because small sturdy tension rods are seriously hard to find), and a hanging CD holder that folds up (a girl's gotta have some tunes while craftin'!). I must confess, however, I could not resist the siren call from Joanne's when they had Vogue patterns for $3.99 at the end of the year. I admit I'm a card carrying pattern junkie but I was able to restrain myself and only bought 4. I've gotten as far as cutting 1 pattern out. Here's to getting my stash way down.

On other crafty news, knitterly creations will resume in a couple months. One goal is to finish a pair of socks (sigh) but (cue the whine)I get so bored with it. It's on the list! I've been itching to submit a pattern to Knitscene for Fall 2011. We'll see...

Hope your year's starting off well!