KnitLizzy

Writing up this one early just so I know I'll get it done and over with. As many of you might have noticed, my activity on dA has dropped this year. I've been lazy with uploading and haven't been able to keep up with everything, and it's equal parts lazyness and "I do not have time to do this now" sort of thing.

If you're interested in keeping  up with me, I post way more often on Instagram. You can find me under LARvonCL, feel free to give me an add, I post way more things than just knitting so you can keep up on me on a more personal level than on here.

As you might have noticed, I've lost my core membership so I won't be doing the New Years Cavalcade this year, I kept all my notes in a widget and I can't access it like this, when that's said, I'm not sure if it's worth getting a new membership seeing as I'm not as active anymore.

My group is dead, it's been dead from the start, but now it's dead to the bone. It all depended on the chat, and over the last 2-3 years, just about every member ever has dropped out, which I understand and I've given up on forcing it anymore. There's even still people whom haven't finished their parts in certain group events we had, and I've honestly given up on that too, it was more time and money wasted than it was worth, atleast on my end. The last couple of months, I haven't even been able to access the group chat for some reason, so I can't be bothered. Not to mention that I was alone in there most of the time for the last year anyway, it got really depressing. Doesn't really help the creativity when there's noone around to play off of.

But enough of the negativity! Let's try to focus on the positive and productive side of everything! This year has been really busy for me with knitting. I've been trying to upload as much as possible of the things I've missed these last few days. With Christmas and everything, some things just naturally get left out. I've still got a few items that needs to be uploaded, and there's some things I've forgotten to photograph before it was given away. I will try to get everything sorted out for the new year atleast. I love starting with blank pages.

I've decided that 2017 shall be a storeage and scrap yarn year (not to mention that I've said for several months that I want it to be a sock year). I will try to refrain from buying too much new yarn, although I can't hold on to that promise too hard around sales and yarn festivals. There will be atleast two festivals, and I tend to loose myself a bit on them... You have been warned. But unless I really NEED yarn and I don't have a substitute in my storeage, or if I run out in the middle of a project, I'm gonna try to refrain from buying more.


My yarn bank is still going strong! I've not yet opened it and I keep putting 10-20NOK on it for each skein I completely finish off...might be the only thing I've been able to kee up with all year actually... I recommend you to try the same! For every full skein you finish, put some pre-set amount of money on a sealed piggy bank so you won't get tempted to use it. I've used it for a year now and I've got a feeling that there's over 1500NOK ($173 €165 £141) on there already. I'm not sure WHEN I'm going to open it, but at this point, I don't want to open it for a few more years. I've seen several people over here do the same, but they count up all the yarn lables at the end of the year and set off an amount of money accordingly. I feel my way is "less expencive"...you don't really notice the money you put on it. I've also got another piggy bank where I put all my change, and I've been contemplating combining the two in some way, or start using the money from that one to put on the yarn bank since that one isn't sealed... But you could always use your change for the yarn bank instead if you're not confident in using as much money per skein as I am.


And I think I should stop rambling now. I hope you've had a good Christmas time, I know I had (except for some family drama, but we don't need to tear into that), and I hope that 2017 will bring all of you joy and happiness! Let's all make it OUR year!

See you all later!