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The final tally for 2023 was:\n100 hat and scarf sets
\n20 hats
\n12 red scarves<\/h3>\n
After purging yarn I don\u2019t like, and wouldn\u2019t use from my working stash, I decided that in 2024 I\u2019m going to use up the yarn I have and make 2024 a free form creative crochet year. The only goal that I am making for myself is to make 12 red scarves for Foster Care to Success. Whatever I make will likely be for donations to different organizations, but I\u2019m just going to go with the flow, use what I have, and experiment with new techniques to improve my skills.<\/p>\n
The final tally for 2023 was:<\/p>\n
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While I didn\u2019t meet my 2023 goals, I am happy with what I made and the joy I brought people. My goal was to make 100 hat and scarf sets, 25 hats and 12 red scarves. I completed 100 sets, 20 hats and 12 scarves AND two baby blankets, a ruana\/throw and a hexagon sweater.<\/strong> All the while a scrapghan was languishing and not being worked on. After I finished the 20th hat, I watched Barbie and added a few rounds to the scrapghan. It\u2019s moving faster than I thought, so I will likely make a few of these and donate them because I don\u2019t need that many blankets and I have several mystery balls of yarn.<\/p>\n Making hats and scarves is a quick process. I miss making afghans, which is what I did before COVID restrictions forced some organizations to stop accepting larger items like afghans and lap robes. I\u2019d like to use up the yarn I have or at least more of it in various projects. If I don\u2019t have enough for a set, I could make a hat or mittens. There\u2019s a giant bag of oddballs that I will start working on for random hats and I know there\u2019s likely a gift or two that I will make thi s year.<\/p>\n While I \u201chit my numbers\u201d in hat and scarf sets and red scarves, I made 80% of the hats I wanted to make and 4 gifts that I didn\u2019t anticipate making in the beginning of 2023. If you only make one stitch… you\u2019re a crocheter. I\u2019m happy with what I made and the joy that the gifts brought to people for the gifts I made and the feeling that I was able to help people I may never meet.<\/p>\n Happy 2024!<\/p>\n Happy Crocheting!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After purging yarn I don\u2019t like, and wouldn\u2019t use from my working stash, I decided that in 2024 I\u2019m going to use up the yarn I have and make 2024 a free form creative crochet year. The only goal that I am making for myself is to make 12 red scarves for Foster Care to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Shades](\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/99set2023-226x300.jpg\")