Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a dandy new year celebration! We celebrated quietly at home and it was delightful.

I didn’t finish my Cobblestone, but I decided I get a 1-week grace period to count it for a successful Sweater-a-month 2008.For 2009, I’m going to do a socks or sweater a month, but I suspect it will be mainly sweaters, since I’m a practical gal and buying nice wool socks is much cheaper than buying nice wool sweaters.

Reminder for Kansas/MO fiberphiles: Saturday after next (1/10) is the first annual Winter Woolfest in Wamego! Please come out and help make it a big hit! It’s a free day of fibery fun, with free demonstrations and vendors all day.

But the real star of the day will be the knit/crochet/spin/weave/felt-in and the fun of making your craft with other fiber enthusiasts. I’m very excited about it! And I’ll be doing a drum carding demo and a knitter’s loom demo, plus I’m planning to have a DIY carding station at my booth.

If you’re in Kansas or western  MO & want to promote it on your blog or website, I’ve made some banners:

You can link to http://settlersfarm.com/Winterwoolfest2009.html or http://winterwoolfest.com

One of my uberlist items is to sell off 30% of my considerable yarn stash (gasp!). Maybe I’ll use the proceeds to get myself something I’ve been longing for. The thing I’ve been longing for the most is well beyond the range of a destash, so maybe I’ll put it towards consumer debt. After all, I’ve also been longing to be debt-free (free any time in the forseeable future is a pipe dream, but maybe less constricted?).