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Looking Forward

 

I had a wonderful Festive season. It only really wrapped up yesterday, despite short breaks of work in-between.

We were both incredibly spoiled for Christmas; I got lots of Craft bits and spent some of my Christmas money on other bits.

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The King Cole Smooth DK is for a shrug for Mum’s co worker, there’s a needle felting kit for a hedgehog and a needle felting tool with some spare needles. My mum got me a spare circular knitting needle and a Christmas scraper foil set for Decorations. I’m hoping to get them done before next year at least!. The little kit at the back is onje for Amigurmi Cakes that came free with my present from my in-laws. They bought me a monthly subscription to Simply Crochet and I’m really looking forward to that. I can’t really get it locally with any ease so I’m very excited!

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I also got books! I love books and one of my new years resolutions is to read more; both fiction and non fiction. My mum got me Knit Nordic for Christmas; not all of the projects are to my taste but a lot of the charts will be incredibly useful. My Gran got me Cath Kidson’s Make! which has loads of fantastic projects in it that I’m looking forward to doing soon, I just need to buy copious amounts of Bondaweb, I think every project in there uses it.

I’m really hoping to get into more sewing this year – Sew with Love deals with garment making but on a small (Children's) scale, ideal ways to practice I hope. The Sewing Book and the Great British Sewing Bee were two I was torn between in Smiths, then luckily I wandered round the corner and found a pile with 2 for £10 stickers on which meant I could get both. I loved The Great British Sewing Bee – it inspired me to pick up sewing again last year and The Sewing book looks like more of a hard reference book I will use through the year.

Finally Mr Crafty bought me Raising Steam. I love Terry Prachett books and I’ve looked forward to this one since it came out.

Is anyone making any resolutions this year?

 

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I’m trying to quit biting my nails (this is day one progress, with only a few minor nervous nibbles here and there)

I want to read more this year – at least a book a month

I want to game more this year  - I treated myself to a Wii U with Zelda on it and I have my 3DS and a few games to play though on the Xbox 360 still

And I want to do some needle felting this year – with a mind to maybe doing some craft show things.

Have you made any resolutions? I’d love to hear them.

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