Tag: new year

• Late to the party.

  

  I think I am perpetually figuring out the fun of the hip stuff after the fact. I tend to get into the hip, trendy projects far after they are the talk of the town. Case in point, I’m just now coming around to the whole “make nine” craze. This is really a new year’s planning…

  Cortney (she/her)

  February 4, 2018

  knitting, wardrobe architect

  goals, knitting, making, new year, sock knitting, socks

• Intentional.

  

  intentional (in-ˈtench-nəl) adj. done with intention or on purpose; deliberate. I’ve been thinking about one little word for 2018. A little late to the party, perhaps, but here I am. I’ve been tossing around a few words over the last few weeks. From my new year’s blog post, challenge sprang to mind. But that’s not exactly what I want…

  Cortney (she/her)

  January 11, 2018

  knitting, life stuff

  goals, kids, knitting, making, new year, onelittleword, project bag, sock knitting, socks

• New year, new challenge(s), new socks.

  

  With 2018 fresh and new, I’ve been thinking about what the new year would mean to me. Last year, I embarked on a wonderful journey, my year of making, and I started this blog to chronicle that journey. Now that it’s over, I find that I don’t want to stop. I want to continue making…

  Cortney (she/her)

  January 1, 2018

  knitting, quilting, sewing, wardrobe architect

  garment sewing, goals, handmade wardrobe, knitting, making, new year, quilting, sock knitting, socks, year of making, yearofmaking

• Year of Making: 2017.

  

  On the first day of this year, I decided to commit to one small thing: “put energy into a making project every day.” At first, that meant a conscious decision to sit down with a project every day. Sometimes it meant sleepily knitting a few rows before bed so that I would keep my commitment.…

  Cortney (she/her)

  December 31, 2017

  baking, canning, crochet, cross stitching, fermenting, knitting, life stuff, quilting, sewing

  baking, canning, crocheting, cross stitch, fermenting, garment sewing, gifting, gifts, goals, handmade wardrobe, kids, knitting, making, new year, pick your own, project bag, quilting, sauerkraut, sewing, sock knitting, socks, vacation, year of making, yearofmaking

• A pincushion with no pins.

  

  I have a finished cross stitch project! It is so sweet and I do love it so. I finished the stitching over the weekend and finished the cushion this evening after work. I trimmed the cross stitch to around 3/4″ outside the edge of stitching and cut a piece of yellow fabric to match: I sewed the…

  Cortney (she/her)

  February 9, 2017

  cross stitching, knitting

  cross stitch, knitting, making, new year, sewing, yearofmaking

• The Long and Winding Road

  

  Yesterday, for New Year’s Day, my family participated in one of our time-honored traditions. We road tripped back from Tennessee. Now, Tennessee is not incredibly far from Maryland, but it is not that close either. Usually the 8 hour drive takes us somewhere between 10 and 12, since we are most often travelling on the…

  Cortney (she/her)

  January 2, 2017

  crochet, knitting

  crocheting, knitting, new year, quilting, yearofmaking

• A Year of Making

  

    Last year around this time, I was inspired to choose a word to encapsulate a goal for myself for 2016. After a great deal of thought, I chose “make.” I chose make because that was what I wanted to do, I wanted to become more of a maker: to produce, to create. I feel…

  Cortney (she/her)

  December 31, 2016

  knitting

  baking, canning, goals, knitting, making, new year, quilting, sewing, yearofmaking