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I don’t normally make New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s Day is such an arbitrary holiday in my mind. About the only thing of note about it is buying a new calendar, which isn’t an issue for someone like me who uses the Google calendar and a four-month wipe-off calendar I got in university.

If I feel like there is something I need to change about my life I’ll think about it, decide if it’s really something I need or want to do, decide how to do it, then do it. Only once has the execution of my resolutions happened on January 1st. That was last year.

Last year my resolution was to do more charity crafting. I’ve posted already about one project I’m working on in that light, and there will be more to come over the next few days. Overall, I think I was pretty successful. The reason this became a “New Year’s resolution” was because I wasn’t able to start planning and crafting towards that goal until the end of year festivities were over. It just made sense.

This year I’ve decided to craft more for myself. Worry not! I will be keeping up on my charity crafting for sure, but I’m going to plan it out a bit better than I did last year and actually finish some of the projects that I’ve had planned for myself for what seems like ages.

I’ve had the yarn to make myself a rose afghan for two years now (Employee Appreciation Week at Michaels. ‘Nuff said.) Mom’s was yellow, mine will be purple (using “silk” for the background instead of white because I didn’t want to find a box in which to put the huge amount of that colour the warehouse had sent us it wouldn’t show the dirt as much).

During the Boxing Week sale at Mary Maxim at the end of 2007 I bought myself an afghan kit, with the matching rug. They are still in their original packages. I have two other rugs waiting to be made, as well. Not to mention a funny little hook I found at Michaels once that looks like a crochet hook on one end and a huge yarn needle on the other. It’s for making rugs, but I haven’t tried it out yet.

I consulted my 2008 crafting spreadsheet yesterday and found that I had listed “Catan Blanket” under my own name there. Looks like I’ll have to make another one of them now! (A smaller one… definitely smaller.)

I want to try out hairpin lace on the loom I got for Christmas from Charles’ sister. And thread crochet. And get better at knitting. And play with broomstick lace more.

So, in the grand tradition of New Year’s Resolutions, I present to you the first project of the year:

It looks like some sort of cozy… Let’s undo the drawstring closure:

What’s that inside?

Ah. Charles‘ penny whistle.