Revising some goals

I think it's time to revise my list of goals. I mean, we're almost three quarters through the year (and how did THAT happen?); it's time to be realistic.

So, let's have a look.

• Spend at least two hours a week knitting. I'm revising this to 20 minutes a day for at least five days of the week. Which is slightly less than two hours, but hey.

• Learn at least three new things (techniques, stitches, cast-on etc) DONE!

• Destash! Not buying any new a) lace or b) sock yarn until what I have is at least half gone. ... yeah, that's not gonna happen. (And after buying Knitting Rules! by The Yarn Harlot earlier this summer, I feel a lot less bad about that.)

• Un-WIP Heartland Shawl DONE!

• Un-WIP Leafy Lace Cardi. Erm. It's still a vest. I've done the ribbing and maybe two repeats on one of the sleeves, but I feel like I should redo it because I think the gauge is way off. Besides, it's a spring cardigan, anyway. Spring 2012...?

• Un-WIP Nereid fingerless glove (the other one was finished absolutely yonks ago). Urgh. I should just cowboy up and DO it, because it's at least half done and wouldn't even take long at all, but I have nooooo desire to.

• Un-WIP Alice Queen of Hearts mitts. It's possible I have started this. Barely. But it's underway.

• Knit Peacock Shawlette DONE!

• Knit Skew socks. I'm skurrrrred of magic looping socks. It does not sound appealing. I need to wait until I'm brave enough.

• Knit Cold Mountain. Not yet. Maybe in green? Or dark pink? (As a side note, I am so in love with all of Kieran Foley's patterns. Europa (the crescent version) is very high up on my todo list.)

• Knit Riff. Uh. Socks. Right. I have no excuse for this. Fail.

• Knit at least two request knits. DONE!

• Knit at least one more pair of socks. Yeah, no. This hasn't happened. I doubt it will.

• Knit at least one colourwork item. If I can churn out those mitts...

• Knit something beaded. Yes! It's underway! I have no idea why I started it, but there's something and it's about halfway done.

I'd like to add some new goals.

• Write at least one blog post a month. Hopefully this will force me into actually having something to write about.

• Don't have more than three things going at once. (Currently, I have... let's see... counting that poor cardi, six. This is not good for my WIP to FO ratio.)

So, this counts as the August blog post. See you for the September one.