New Year and Beyond

So it's resolution time my friends. I know you're probably thinking mine should be to post more often and you would be correct. I have this blog for over a year now and for the first half, from May to December in 2009, I posted 50ish times. In the whole year of 2010, I posted less than 30 times. Pathetic right?! Well, in all fairness, life gets in the way sometimes and that is exactly what happened.

To sum up the year, I will just briefly go over all the new things:
-I got a tattoo
-I got a nose stud
-I cut my hair short twice, once too short
-I went to a John Mayer concert, my favorite singer
-I went to a Backstreet Boys concert
-I had a really bad breakup
-I lost 30 pounds (so far)
-I spent 3 weeks in California
-Oh yeah, probably the most important, I got into the Education program and the Art program!
-I knitted a lot (most of which went undocumented unfortunately)

I did make some resolutions last year, knitting-wise of course, which follow here:
1. Learn how to entrelac.
2. Knit a sweater/vest using the steeking method
3. Knit a matching hat and gloves set
4. Succeed at fair isle.
5. Knit something that will be felted on purpose.
6. Reduce my stash by at least 1/2.
7. Knit something using intarsia.

I didn't quite make my goals but I did learn a lot from the goals I did accomplish. I photographed some of my accomplishments below.
Didn't knit a sweater using steeking but I did make a sweater.
Proof of my attempt at entrelac. This scarf was completed but I like my scarves long so it was frogged and used for something else.
Felted something on purpose. These were so much fun and now I'm not as afraid to try something felted.
And... drumroll please... matching hat and gloves! Well, fingerless gloves to be more accurate.
Some other successes that I didn't make a resolution for were that I designed my own pattern and I also cut down on the majority of my stash! It has since been replenished but I'm slowly on my way! The green fingerless gloves in this picture are my own design and once I test knit them and really iron out all the kinks, they will be up as a free pattern.
And I also had some culinary successes. This is me a couple of weeks ago making my first yeast bread! It was fantastic and now I could probably make that recipe in my sleep.
Well folks, I haven't finalized my knitting resolutions yet so I will upload that in the next few days with a final sweep of Christmas gifts that I made. Happy New Years everyone and be safe tonight!