Did You Make Any Craft Goals This Year?

I had a little help with creating my goal for this year. My son announced that he's going to be a daddy around the beginning of August! So, needless to say (as a fellow crafter you already know what I'm going to say), I have dozens of projects swimming around in my noggin right now. I'm working on the first project now and should actually finish it today so I can get onto the next. Like you, I get bored just a bit too easily. lol I'm finishing up the first of many baby blankets (knitted) and plan to add a baby bottle cozy and tissue box cover to go with it as soon as it's finished. Next will come the first of many layettes. But, along with the knitting and crocheting, I'll also be sewing baby clothes. I "invented" a diaper when my oldest son (the daddy-to-be) was a baby and they worked great so I'll be making a few dozen for the new baby. I also found the cutest baby bonnet pattern and hope to be able to use it, if the baby is a girl. (The pattern is too frilly for a boy.) I also have patterns for baby shoes (cloth), bassinette and crib accessories, nursery wall decorations, etc. that I'll be making, hopefully all before the baby comes. Well, some after since I don't know if we're going to find out the gender until after it's born. Anyway, aside from that, I've been trying to work faster on some things I've created that are nothing more than gag gifts, mainly geared for men. I've been selling these things and am getting more and more orders so I've had to get busier to increase my stock. I may have to hire people to help me if it keeps up but I'm not complaining. lol Good luck on your huge granny square blanket! That's quite an undertaking. I want to ask you what that blog is called but I'm almost afraid to since I already have way too much going on.

Mine is similar to yours - to use up my stash! I mostly knit and I have so much yarn that I decided not to buy any until I got it down to a reasonable level. So what happened? A friend sent me a box of yarn! So I can't buy any at all probably for the whole year. I have a lot of knitting to do.

Hey, what neat ideas. I make intentions, not goals, but it is the same thing. My intention is to finish the projects I got started. I could make a list of maybe ten to finish. That would make my progress something that I could check off, and would let me see the progress I am making. I may run to notepad to make a list right now. If you can do two years, I could probably do ten.

I haven't made any goals but like you I have a HUGE stash and several projects begun and not finished. There's heaps of fabric, knitting and crochet projects, painting and drawing projects, photography projects, home decorating projects...I even have a caravan I got hold of to clean up and decorate. I'm just not into sitting down and doing a project from start to finish in one go. I have a home and garden and several pets to look after and of course the Internet so I have little free time. What I have done though is taken up a new hobby...how silly is that?? I've begun beading and already spent several hundred dollars on supplies with so many ideas filling my head. By the time the goods arrive, I've forgotten what I was going to do with it. I'm learning as I go too. It's apparently a very addictive hobby and I must say, I cannot stop myself from spending hours daily just looking at all the gorgeous beads and other things available at very reasonable prices. I've made a few things and I figure I will have to start selling some soon or else I will be broke with lots of jewellery.I have no idea how to market my stuff. Sounds boring to me.

My goals are a lot like yours. I want to use up the materials I have now. I have signed up at a few places on the internet and I hope to start selling my items on them. I would really like to get things built back up to the way I had them years ago.

I have a few projects in mind for the New Year. I did 5 cross stitch pictures and want to get them framed. I want to crochet a blanket for my bed. I have made many for others but never one for myself. Next is to get more of the kids scrapbook pages done before I forget what happened and when. And finally get my new craft room more organized so that things are at my fingertips without searching through boxes and bins to find what I need.

I am going to knit a lot of Christmas gifts, as well as some diaper covers because we are cloth diapering. I plan to knit 2 things per month so that at the end of the year, lots of presents are done. I was planning on trying to cut down on my stash, and then I went out and bought a lot more yarn. Fortunately I should be able to use the new yarn fairly easily.

I actually do have some goals. 1. Crochet four hats monthly. I have done so far this month 8, so I am off to an excellent start. 2. Organize my craft room always a challenge. 3. Market my business as much as possible. 4. Use up all fabric scraps. I think all my goals are doable.

My craft goal is to be able to finish the cross stitch that I have started last year and to get it framed. I am also thinking of getting my other finished cross stitch work framed. I have like two that haven't been framed yet. The reason why they're not yet framed is because it is expensive. If I get a little extra then I would get my work framed. I was looking at regular picture frames but none seem to fit.

i am hoping to do some cross stitching this year and have been using up my wool in making scarves but i hope to make some Christmas gifts too with the craft stuff i already have.

I have a general goal of doing more knitting this year, in order to accomplish several related goals. 1) Like many of you I need to decrease my stash. Although I've gotten more selective in my yarn choices the last year or so, several years ago I got a lot of yarn on clearance at Walmart when they were scaling down their craft department and I just hate to see it go to waste. So lately I look for projects I can make with yarn I have rather than ones that will require a new purchase. 2) Continue last year's goal of giving handmade Christmas gifts. Start earlier than I did last year! 3) Look for opportunities to make items to donate. 4) Make items to sell. Look into Etsy and other ways to sell my work. 5) Develop my knitting skills. I'm what I guess you'd call an experienced beginner, so I need to learn some new techniques and become more proficient.

No, I just started quilting again. Last september, I just decided that I wanted to start quilting again and although my Singer of 25 years did just fine... I thought I deserved something new every 25 years whether I needed it or not..so I bought a new Singer...Love it so much! I wanted one with a larger arm opening, but couldn't afford that, so the one I got has tons of stitches and things and I am now quilting up a storm. I just learned about some new techniques and even bought online some fabric, charm packs and templates and such. I finished a t-shirt quilt for one GD and gave it to her for Christmas and am currently finishing the same for the other GD to give to her before the winter is done and she can't use it! In between there...beacuse I started watching the quilting shows on TV and YouTUbe and learned some new things, I made (so far just the top) a quilt with strips and squares and triangles, and another one nearly done with pinwheels and have another one in the planning/designing stage for another GD of Strawberry Shortcake. I guess maybe I do have goals...as many quilts as possible this year! i just bought some charm packs called "Battle Hymn" which is red/white/blues with that rusty tone to them.. like Civil War era colors and will make a quilt for my son... he was a Civil War buff when he was in school...probalby still remmebers alot of it today and he is a Sheriffs Deputy so the theme still fits. Anxious to get that one started to!

Hi Marsha sure I did! I have three country christmas crafts since 2010 and I have two cross stitch projects since 2009. I´ve been working on them though this January. But I have an unfinished knitted vest.I think I´ll never never ever finish it. =(

I have goals for the year but not craft-related ones. I don't really craft; my creative outlets tend to be writing and photography, rather than sewing or knitting. However, I am thinking that I need to learn to crochet or knit this year.

I am buying a house and I am planning on organizing the room so that I can do many more Native American crafts (that I sell at pow wows and flea markets as well as on a web page that is being built). The room will be larger and not as crowded as the small room that I use now. I will be able make many new and unusual crafts in this room. Also I will have a fish room where I will have several central filtration systems for many tanks. This is usually called a hobby but is is a craft also. I have to craft the stands to put the tanks on plus drilling the tanks and putting the plumbing into the tanks and the filtration systems.

My goals for this year craft wise are to use the the yarn, wool, and fabrics i have already purchases before buying more. I was shocked the other day to find that i had a box of wool for projects i had completely forgotten about - i make a lot of dish clothes and i wondered where my wool had gone! So now i need to use it up before i buy more. I also have several quilts worth of fabrics purchased to go with patterns that i need to finish before i buy some more. I probably have a couple hundred dollars at the very least invested in projects ive never finished or started.

I am learning how to make jewelry so I can start selling it online. I have already learned how to make earings and next month I will learn how to make a necklaces and bracelets. I am hoping to learn these skills so I can make extra money for my husband and I. My husband is out of work due to a foot injury and I am his caregiver so it is hard for me to work. I have a few craft items that I am not sure if I will use, but if I do not use it I will sell it on amazon. It is hard for me to do crafts because I do not have a room of my own since I moved in with my parents.

Well last year I make some soap. And year I plan to make more and yes I would like to learn how to make my own candles,I got a book that show how to do it,and what you need to do it. Well for now I missing only the money to get everything I need to get started.

What a great goal. Well, for me, I make hair accessories and a few other things. So my goal is to just keep on thinking of great things to create and keep promoting myself so that I can eventually be as successful as others I see out there. Monique