Reading through Blog Week's last day's post, obviously I would start to ponder in the back of my mind...what happened to my resolutions of last year? And where do I want to be within in another year?
This was my list in April 2012:
- "learn to hook from a diagram
- complete a Japanese flower scarf adapting from an existing doilie type pattern
- learn to hook from a diagram
- go beyond simple amigurumi
- learn to hook from a diagram.
- continue meeting new hookers at Ons Hekel and meet up with them where possible."
Whoops.
At least I'm working on the diagram now. No Japanese Flower Scarf completed yet (although quite a few other flowery versions). Amigurumi...still where I was.
But I had success with nr 6! Ons Hekel (my crochet group on Facebook) has grown far beyond any expectations. At 4500 members, I closed the Page and restarted as a Group, finding a few things easier in that format. I have met so many new friends through this group, meeting up with some on a regular basis in Pretoria and planning to expand on this while on holiday wherever I find myself in the same town as fellow members.
I love meeting up with fellow hookers. I love meeting up with Craft Share hookers and will do a post on that in the near future. I learn so much and get more and more inspiration every time.
I started a doc on Ons Hekel, "Hekel om te Help"(Crochet to Help) where members who collect items for charity can list their details - typically for beanies for prem babies in government hospitals, cancer patients etc. My hope is that this will grow and become an active part of Ons Hekel and I recently completed a pile of beanies that will be sent off to one of these ladies soon. So this is nr 1 then.
But what else? I think I can safely say that I've mastered the bare basics of blankets and beanies...So:
2. Learn to crochet from a diagram (uhm :-)
3. Complete One Item To Wear. (Ok, that's big enough a challenge. Nothing more.)
Did I say something about a diagram?
