New Year's Resolutions

I know, I know. It's been forever and a day since I posted. Life has this way of being hectic and flying by.

I don't usually make New Year's Resolutions. Most of my goals start in September when the girls head back to school, new school year = new year for me. BUT this year in January I decided to make a few goals.

1. Keep exercising regularly.
2. Keep eating fairly healthy (no refined sugars, minimal processed food, etc)
(As you can see these are really just goals that I started in September and am trying to keep up.)
3. Learn to crotchet.

I taught myself to knit about 6 years ago, but I have terrible follow through (it may be my only flaw:). I have a half knitted blanket somewhere in my house for my (now) 6 yr old nephew, he wasn't even born when I started it. I tend to go big with things that I start (maybe my only other flaw...) and stop halfway through. So this time I am determined to see this goal through.

I decided to crotchet a baby blanket (for my newest nephew soon to arrive), but this time I made a sample to learn the stitches and make mistakes and then moved on to the bigger blanket.

I was able to go visit my sister last week and help her out as she nears the end of her pregnancy. I finished the blanket on the plane ride out (2 weeks is a bit of tight schedule for one's first project, but I made it). I thoroughly enjoyed making it and now have a baby hat in the works and have been teaching the girls how to make to make a simple scarf. I love youtube tutorials and google for how to do stitches and patterns (link to pattern here).

Here it is!