New Year... what will it bring!

Well here we are in 2014, what happened to 2013 it wizzed by and so I thought like everyone else,"what did I achieve".

My knitting life so far as been amazing and have knitted some wonderful things and have had great pleasure in seeing peoples faces when they get them. I have made some amazing knitter friends in the Knitting groups I attend and within the lovely land of Twitter, and they keep me laughing when ever I see them. Also thanks to www.cityknits.co.uk for giving me ago without them I would have never started to blog and I do so like sharing my stuff even if no body reads it writing it is great for the brain and the fingers while typing!

Also at this time of year I look over the year that has just left us and what happened here is a very quick few things I enjoyed. We had that lovely snow in January and I know not everyone likes it but now I live "up North" and from Somerset we never got much snow and now I get loads and like a kid have to go out and walk, when Hubby and I went out walking on this day in January a 2 hour walk lasted nearly 5 as we got so lost but had a very slippery time and laughed a lot.

 The field only us two had walked in mainly because we were so far away from any where! Lots of snow angels made here.

Just two snowy photos to remind me. Then came the summer which I LOVE, everything looks so much better in the sun. Hubby played cricket and we just chilled in the sun, our garden is not huge but for the two of us its fine. We try to grow veggies and I mean we try, and it not always works but the excitement of seeing little seedlings grow is amazing and one I hope I won't grow out of. My knitting during this time was hard work, sticky hands, but I still did it and of cause sitting in my garden I could take loads of breaks to bung hands under the cold tap.

This summer was the first time we looked after our lovely Buster, who I mentioned before. He belongs to some friends of ours and hates being left alone while Sharon is at work so I look after him and I love it. The photo above shows you what we did to stop him breaking out into next door neighbours garden, but it does show the beautiful sweet peas which are the best flowers you can ever grow the smell is so beautiful and heavenly and I have to grow them every year, so roll on this summer when the seeds we dried we can grow our selves, fingers crossed.

That's enough of going back one of my New Years resolution's was to try and not to dwell in the past but to look ahead at every thing which is to come, so far it going well, but we are only 6 days in!!

For Christmas my Hubby brought me some shelves, I know, "Really he brought you some shelves" but they are what I wanted, as I had decided to make the spare room, where no one came to stay, into  "my knitting room". So trip to Ikea (that was fun) and shelves where in" my room", its what its called now no longer spare room, sounds so much better. 

And here they are and as usual since this was taken I have moved things around a bit, but they still look tidy. 

 My favourite pictures, the "keep calm" one was brought at Skipton Market a while ago and just needed to be put up and the other two are vintage baby knitting patterns and they are just two of my loved patterns the others are kept safe.

I love "my room" and now life has gone back to normal with Hubby gone back to work, (insert sad face here) I will be using it everyday during working hours and then doing my knitting while watching TV with Hubby in the lounge.

One thing I did try during Christmas break was felting and OMG soooooo much fun why had I not had this in my life before. You knit this strange shaped thing see below

 and then bung it in the washing machine with some jeans on a boil wash and something magical happens and this wonderful item comes out.

I made 4 bowls, each are used in "my room" for all sorts of bits that we knitters have! I have since found a knitting bag and some hearts I'm now going to have ago out, its knitting with extras.

Resolution number 2 was to try and use some of my stash which is now nicely stashed away in boxes in "my room". So over the weekend while out for a quick stroll in Bingley my hands were freezing, now I have loads of hand warmers I have knitted but no gloves or mittens, so off I go looking for patterns on the lovely Pinterest, found some, well a few patterns and off I go. Stash was looked at found colours needed had all needles needed so knitting was ago.

They are knitted in merino and silk blend wool sorry cannot give names as I no longer have the wraps to tell me what they are but I can tell you wearing them will be so cuddly and warm which is what I was after.

A close up on the cuffs which I think are lovely and a shame they will be up my coat sleeve and never seen but some how I will show them off.

I made a few resolutions another one was to try and finish my WIP, now knitters and you know who you are, how many of us have them. I try not to have them but am ashamed to say I have some. Now knitters I no think its OK, but, I can hear mine shouting at me from their various places telling me to "finish me I want to be worn and make you happy" and since cleaning "my room" I found some I had forgot about woops. So sorry jumper, snood and of course those "I've only knitted one sock" syndrome. The socks I need so they need to get done, snood not really liking it so might have to unpick that one, and the jumper well I finished it.

It only took me a few hours to add a few extra inches on to the bottom of the hem, this was knitted from the top down something I had never done before but have found I quite enjoyed it and would love to do one again. So as I am writing this my brain is ticking over with all those WIP which I need to go and get done!!

so I'm off, but first let me wish you all "Happy New Year" and I hope you all enjoy whatever 2014 throws at you and finish the things you need in your life or you would never have started them.

Goodbye and Happy Knitting x x