It's funny, I usually start writing my Creative Goals Monday posts feeling a bit disappointed with my crafty efforts of the past week, but when I review the goals I made the week previous, I'm surprised to find that I've pretty much met them. Does this mean that my weekly goals are too eady, or that I tend to forget how much craftiness I got up to? Maybe it's a little of both, but I do think it might be time to be make my weekly goals just a bit more challenging.
This past week, I planned out a few cards but didn't do much in the way of putting them together. I also worked on my two knitting projects, the lacy scarf and the pouch for The Leopard's digital recorder. I ran into some trouble with the lacy scarf and unfortunately had to pull out two rows of knitting. I need to do a bit of research on one of the stitches (yarn over); I thought I was doing it properly, but it just isn't working out. But I still think I can figure it out.
The pouch is coming along though. When I last posted a pic of it, it looked like this. Now it looks like this: I've made a few mistakes, including a huge slipped stitch (or something) which resulted in a pretty big hole. Thankfully, the yarn hides most of the issues. I figure I only need a few more rows and then I'm going add some on purpose holes for a drawstring.
So for this week's (more challenging) goals, I'm going to:
- Knit every day: finish the knitting part of the pouch and figure out the pattern for the scar
- Make three cards: two birthday, one retirement
- Work on a new design for my blog, including a banner for my Friday I'm in Love posts
The Leopard and I are working on being better with our time management and daily schedule these days, so I'm hoping that setting more challenging creative goals will help me in this respect. In fact, I've met my non-crafty goals for today, so I'm going to leave the 'puter now and go and enjoy the sunshine with my knitting needles!
Have you set any creative goals this week?
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