It's been a WHOLE year?!!!

Wow, what a lazy blogger I am! Or maybe just busy? Not always with crocheting but life in general. God has really been working in our lives this past year. More on that to come in my Battles in the Spiritual Realm blog. I started many crochet projects last year and actually finished most of them by the literal end of the year. What's left to complete are MY afghan (yes, I think I'll actually get it done before the end of winter), a bag using Omega nylon, and a baby sweater/hoodie (once I figure out why the sleeves don't fit into the openings in the body!). I also have a poncho about 1/2 done that was started about 3 years ago...toying with the idea of frogging it but might dig it out and finish it for early spring usage, we'll see. I don't have any big projects in mind as of yet. I would like to use up a lot of my current stash. I've been making baby hats for people out of left-overs. I would also like to do more recycling of sweaters from last year (and the year before) from the thrift store $1 clearance sales....which would give me lisence to buy more sweaters. I haven't taken apart a sweater in MANY months. I did use one 100% wool sweater to make a blanket for Allen...used my mom's knitting machine during a sleepover with the kids over Thanksgiving. But once done it was just WAAAY to scratchy so I felted it and gave it to the dogs. They LOVE it!! nothing wasted :-)