2024 Craft Goals! Is this...the year of the shawl?! 

So happy You are up and around spreading your joyful message of let’s have some fun with goal setting…..goal no shaming…..goal redefining……goal rolling over….because as 73 year Happy-Ager here in the PNW of the USA…..I feed off your energy and enthusiasm…also loving Dave…..”what a catch”……

My main craft goal is to find more time for it! I just handed in my thesis, so I have a lot more time on my hands (until I get a job, at least) and I've been dreaming of filling it up with cross stitch and sock darning.

I'm so glad you're feeling better. And great job completing so many of your goals! I think you'll enjoy bobbin lace once you get the hang of it. One of my friends does it a lot and it's really incredible. 😄 I did the big scary thing last year and sold my wire trees at a Christmas craft fair. It was terrifying and awesome and I'm so incredibly grateful to my friends who had experience doing craft fairs and were willing to help out. This year I want expand that experience into an actual business. I also really want to finish my outstanding stitches. My brother has been waiting on me to finish one for him for like two and half years now and that's so uncool of me. 😅

We are just going through the Covid stuff in my family. Glad you are doing better! You did great this year! And I think it is so helpful to reflect and role goals over (helps me understand time management). I am excited about the shawls and the parking video!!

I had to laugh at you about craft goals. my biggest problem is I have too many of them. I love quilting, sewing, recently I have started pyrography and chrocheting, drawing and knitting. would you believe I was going to cross stitch and made about fifteen gorgous cross stitch project bags and actually put patterns in a lot of them along with threads and bought hoops also. but right now they are all packed away in my she shed. my poor sewing room was over run with stuff. when you have too many hobbies it gets really hard. as for buying hoops ect I broke down and bought the most expensive amish wooden hoop stand for hand quilting and love it! I also have a collection of hand held quilt circles for smaller sizes. one day when I finally get into cross stitching I will most likely invest in a nice wooden stand of some sort. although I do sit in a recliner so it may be something much different then what you bought. I have some of the snap frames but it is so hard to take them apart . not sure if I am doing something wrong but it drove me crazzy so I went with the round ones. love your channel. Linda

Happy to hear that you're feeling so much better. And even if things didn't turn out exactly like you expected, it sounds to me like you did pretty dang good with your ambitious goals for 2023. I'm particularly looking forward to your clothing adjustment adventures in 2024.

I'm so glad to hear that you're feeling better! We miss you over on Lemmy!

I loved this video and your list of goals for this year. It inspires me to get my craft goals list together today and add it in the stitchy journal hubby got me for Christmas. See you next time!

So glad you're doing better. 👏👏 I just saw someone showing a shawl that might be perfect for you. It has sleeves. Do a Google search, they have crochet and knitted patterns. Some ships you can ask them to change the temperature for you in your room. Happy Stitching and Crafting. Bye!! ❤👋❤👋❤

Glad you're feeling better! Good job on your goals! I'm continuing my goal of reducing my wip count of cross stitch projects and I'm going to add diamond painting wips as well. Of course to do that second part I'll have to actually do diamond painting again. I'm going to focus on getting older wips further along and finished. I'm going to attempt the daily thread approach on my Dark Queen of the Sea. I also would like to touch each wip at least once this year. Failed that part last year. And I want to take the time and learn and practice crochet so I don't have to watch a video every time I pick it up. Good luck with your 2024 goals. Oh and one more goal. Stitch from stash as much as possible. I'm on a no buy this month.

I love jigsaw puzzles! I hope you find some fun ones this year.

I did the cosyalong with you in 2022 & enjoyed it so much that I did a cosyalone last year! I got some lovely yarn for my birthday, so I think there will be another winter/spring jumper project to chill to with more Lotr :)

You always bring a smile to my face. A goal of mine for 2024 is to start designing cross stitch patterns based upon my own drawings and photography. Presently, I am debating on which software program to use? As I recall, you have used Photoshop in the past. However, I think I will splurge on something designed for cross stitch to expedite color and symbol assignments. Is there one that you find attractive?

I'm so motivated by your goals! I really should sort out my own craft goals for this year! Happy New Year!

I really should aim to finish some WIPs, though I think at the moment I only have one crochet WIP (until I find 7 more in a cupboard I'm sure), and two cross stitches. One of the cross stitches was started in 2015 so I'd be delighted to tick that off the list! Crafty groups and meet ups have appeal, but absolutely everything local is either aimed at retired folks, or making set crafts to sell for fundraising. I'd rather just a cuppa and work on "whatever" sort of group, but not sure I can be bothered starting one myself...

You did well with your list from last year. I love the idea of a capsule wardrobe but when I think of colours I end up thinking of all the colours 😂 there's a cross stitch syoa (stitch your own adventure) which is lotr based!! It's by cunning cross stitch and I think they are just two parts in. I found when looking for the harry potter one from a few years ago, haven't had a proper look but downloaded the necessary straight away! I'd like to knit socks but I just keep saying it and never do so really I need to get doing. I would love to know how to properly frame my cross stitches so they are straight etc, and washing them would be a great know how x

You go, girl!

So nice to see you feeling better! Well done on your 2023 goals! Can't wait to see you work on your new goals! 🥰

I am adding that to my steam wish list!

Happy New Year 🎊🎆 🎉You look awesome and excellent job on your goals. 💜

Setting some new goals for the new year is such a joy! Looking forward to seeing you complete them :D

my goals for this year is to finish my Rivendell x stitch 2 pages to go! And make a meter by meter and a half woven wall tapestry. read 12 books. and do some xbox gaming. ;)

Instead of looking for events that are hard to get to or that are difficult to fit into your plans, why don't you create some of your own? Maybe a crafter & stitcher group in your area, which can include all of your interests and to teach (and learn from) others. Or a livestream stitch-along of your own. Or a livestream show and tell with other crafters and stitchers. (Not sure how that would work, except maybe on Skype???). This way, you still have the benefit of socializing with and learning from others with similar interests, but you also have greater control over scheduling, travel and other costs, and content, too. For my 2024 goals, I'd like to expand my Ko-fi shop more so that I'm still doing my cross quilting, but I also include more new cross stitch patterns that don't require cross quilting to finish. I'd also like to spend more time actually designing and stitching what I design. This past year was primarily spent stitching samples for things to submit for publication that either got rejected or that I wound up not submitting because publishers want samples EXACTLY LIKE THE PATTERN, and I was nervous about mistakes, so --of course-- I made so many, I felt like I spent more time frogging than stitching. I'd like to change that this year because doing that last year took all the fun out of creating. This year, I want to get my crafter-stitcher joy back and do more things for fun instead of for a deadline. One of the fastest ways to kill joy is doing things in a rush instead of taking your time and doing it because you truly, honestly love what you're doing. Michelle, we're all wonderfully excited to see you all better and back in your game! Your personality is wonderful, you have an awesome sense of humor, and your cheerfulness is ALWAYS a wonderful way to add sunshine to anyone's day. 🙂 Thank you for your awesome videos! And, as you say so often, "Keep making cool stuff!" 😄

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Seeing someone else do a “self high five” made my lil autistic self so happy 🎉

Can anyone suggest a “vinted” based in US (thinking about shipping)? So glad you are feeling better!

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