2009 Craft-in-Review

Many of these the projects you’ll see below are completed, but in any case, whether completed or not, these are the crafty things that have occupied my time this past year. Many of these things have taken an amazing amount of time for this crafting-at-night-only girl: the blue sweater, the afghan, the birches quilt, the as-yet-unfinished red sweater and quilted jacket.Various things conspired to limit my crafting: the business of moving, grief, and other paying concerns.

I liked all my projects, so all of them are my “favorites” but Audrey’s sweater is the one that really tugs at my heart.  Not listed here are my grandma’s birthday card, the framed corkboards or the hat and gloves that I’m 99.9% done with that match the one-skein scarf.  I didn’t really include much for food, I think I’m going to do a separate one for that.

Looking back at the year via my iPhoto library and through this blog was interesting. I got a new computer, I tried to walk/hike a lot more, the cat turned 2, there was a huge fire at our apartment complex, I went to SXSW again, I got a promotion at work, traveled all around California, went to Iowa as well as to various places in Texas, I met Alton Brown, we published a few side project websites, I nearly made it through another November NaBloPoMo, and of course we moved into an apartment half the size of our former one.  On the much more somber side, we lost our dear, sweet Audrey, and a few months later decided to honor her memory in our own way by adopting Wesley. It’s been an eventful year.

Miriam Cooks A Lot | Circle-in-a-Square Granny Square (tutorial) | unfinished Red Wide-Neck Sweater | One-Skein Scarf | unfinished silk and linen quilted jacket | Owl, Redux (tutorial)| Owls, Part 1 | Birches Quilt |Bay Leaf Wreath | African Violet Jewelry Case | Flower Afghan | Audrey’s Sweater | Miriam’s Lake Blue Sweater |  Jeff’s Blue Beanie | Experiments in Thread Jewelry | Yarn for the Project Queue

The Flickr Pictures:
1. Happy about Tacos, 2. Row5, 3. Unfinished Sweater, 4. One-Skein Scarf, 5. Unfinished Silk Quilting, 6. Tiny Little Owl, 7. Hugging the glass, 8. Birch/Aspen Finished Wall Quilt, 9. Laurel Detail 1, 10. Pot of Violets, 11. Flower Afghan, 12. Audrey’s Sweater, 13. First Sweater, 14. Jeff’s Blue Beanie, 15. Shapes, 16. Hmmm