Well Overdue Post

It's been almost a year and so much has happened! I had a little epiphany today about this little blog...along with posting pictures and tidbits, it will serve as a digital sketch/inspiration book to help keep me organized. Why should I be printing everything that inspires me in black and white (which I lose anyway) when I can have it at my fingertips anytime I need a little boost.

Fall is here

As I sit at my desk eating my apple I am shocked at how quickly the year is going by. I am super happy at how my felted slippers turned out (see below). They were relatively easy to make, and with the help of YouTube video, I taught myself the Magic Loop. I want to pick up cables next, and possibly take a class at Threefold Educational Center on dyeing yarn with plants. It might be nice having a person rather than a computer do the teaching!

In true "me" fashion, I am starting off the year by:

1. procrastinating  AND
2. writing a list (built from many lists on many little scraps of paper)

This list is a work in progress...

GOALS FOR 2009 (in no particular order):

• Run a marathon (yikes! October 10th in Baltimore is creeping up!)
• Be creative daily
• Take advantage of my snazzy connections (wink! wink!) and travel lots
• Visit friends in far off places (goes along with above)
• Clean my childhood bedroom (perhaps the most daunting item on this list)
• plan my escape
• DOCUMENT EVERYTHING with photographs.
• Organize all photographs from film days into albums and burn negatives onto cd's
• Learn something new each week (new knit stitch, new recipe, new yarn shop, new running route, etc.)
• Improve my dart game!

there you have it.  

Moroccan Bag

Here is a bag I made in the fall, with some fabric I worked on designing.