Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas and are looking forward to a wonderful 2019.   I am hoping that it will be a better year than the last couple were.   I won't go into details, but there was illness and sad news and no love lost on my part for the past year, only optimism that this year will be better for all of us.

I decided to kick off 2019 off by buying a "paper" planner and also by re-reading Sarah Van Breathnach's book "Simple Abundance".

I do hope to do more blogging than I've done in the last few years but this year my blogging will start to take a different direction because I have added knitting and crocheting to my list of hobbies.   That doesn't mean that I won't be talking about gardening and sewing but I don't think I'll be doing many, if any quilting projects.  Quilting has "cooled" off for me for the most part because of the time it takes up and all of the space that quilting paraphernalia (fabric) takes up  [insert cough here].   I have sold some fabric and given some away.  Scraps were the worst--I had so many scraps stored in boxes and bins and bags.   I am glad I found a couple of charity groups that were happy to take them.  After a few years, fabric trends and styles change and it just gets old and dated and I started to feel that way about my stash.

I do still plan on finishing all of the WIP's I have.   In fact, I recently cleaned up and organized my sewing room and found all of the WIP's which had hidden themselves in different nooks and behind closed cupboard doors and they are now out in the open and organized so I can tick them off the list as I finish them.    I bought a new planner this year and it has a monthly section for "Goals".   I'm using it to list WIP's that I want to complete in that month.  I'm probably being too optimistic but I'm hoping to get two done a month and I will post my efforts here to keep myself honest.

Well that's it for now.  Keeping it short and sweet.   I am glad to be back posting.  Going to give myself another goal of posting once a week.

I really do wish you all a healthy, peaceful and contented new year!  

Gail