This year I want to make something for myself maybe a hat and scarf and possibly a sweater or skirt.
I also want to take a break from afghans and focus on technique and stitch patterns. What better way tot do that than to make lots of scarves and hats. Last year [2018] was my “crochetaversary,” so I set a goal of 40 scarves – one for each year that I have been crocheting. I completed 41 scarves while working on other projects. I have a couple of afghans to complete from last year and may make another so that it’s not an odd number that we give to the shelter. Fifty scarves for the year seems like a reasonable goal and 60 little red hats – or a scarf a week and five hats a month. I have enough to start on a scarf a week. The yarn I want to use for hats this year has been identified. The yarn that I used for the past couple of years started to get fuzzy when I carried projects around in my bag, so Im going to switch to a soft anti-pilling yarn that I “previewed” in a different color way that I received for Christmas.
Another thing I would like to try this year is dyeing yarn with drink mix and food coloring. I know I had this project in mind several years ago, because when I was cleaning out my kitchen cabinets, I found a few dozen packets of unsweetened drink mix in a container in flavors that would make colors I want to dye yarn with. For the past several years I have made afghans to donate through a church outreach project. As much as I like working on afghans, I do like the immediate gratification of finishing a scarf or trying out a new stitch pattern in a simple yarn or using a simple stitch pattern in a fun yarn. When I was just out of college my first project was making scarves which I donated to a shelter. My skills have advanced since then as well as the quality of the yarn that I purchase, but I want to go back to my crocheting foundations and make the basics – scarves for adults and hats for babies.
This new goal seems liberating because in 2018 I made about a dozen afghans, six adult hats, 41 adult scarves and 20 baby hats. This total doesn’t even include the false starts that I unraveled or abandoned projects that were donated because I didn’t like the yarn.
These are my crochet goals for the year. I have an idea what I want to make for myself – a hat and scarf are a given because I received a new coat for Christmas and I want to make new accessories to go with it. I still want to find a physical local yarn shop and buy something luscious maybe for the new hat and scarf, or maybe I’ll use something from my stash, either way, I have almost a year to make it happen.
I will keep you posted with tallies of my hats and scarves. I will have to wait on the hats, since I haven’t ordered the yarn yet and don’t have enough from last year to make a complete hat… but scarves – I’m ready to get started on those!
What are your crafting goals for 2019?
