{"id":2976,"date":"2014-01-02T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T20:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2014-01-02T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T20:50:50","slug":"2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"2014 &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s that time again! What the heck happened to 2013? Oh well, time to seize the day, or in this case, year. 2014 will be grand &#8211; I can feel it. And while I&#8217;m full of this new found optimism that seems to come from the calendar flipping over another day, I&#8217;ll do something I don&#8217;t usually do. I&#8217;m going to make a few resolutions. Now if you&#8217;ve been around from the beginning (or if you search waaaaay back on this site), you&#8217;ll know\/see that I have done this before. Once. Yeah, it was that successful. So why do I want to try it again? well, you know, if at first and all that jazz. No seriously, there are a few things I&#8217;d like to accomplish this year, and you can help me out simply by reading them in this post. I&#8217;m hoping that somewhere along the way (during the year) someone will post a comment saying something like &#8230; &#8220;Hey Hugzzz, where are you with those resolutions&#8221;? I know a few of you will do it for sure!! So here we go then &#8230; although some of these will read more like goals than resolutions. But isn&#8217;t that what they really are?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knit 1,000 stitches a day. This one seems strange, but I got the number 365 stuck in my head last week as I was watching some sort of countdown or mention to the fact that the year has 365 days. Now for most things knitting 365 is either a small number or an extremely large number. Think 365 stitches or 365 sweaters. See what I mean? So I started to wonder what would 365,000 stitches look like? I started doing some calculating and it turns out my Barrington Braid scarf has somewhere around 25,000 stitches in it. So if I made 15 of those I would have knit a little more than 365,000 stitches. I&#8217;m not going to make 15 of those this year, but I think I can knit 1,000 stitches a day. I&#8217;m honestly going to try and do 1,000 a day as well, rather than averaging out what I do. This will keep me knitting all year. Every day! Yikes!<\/li>\n<li>Finish the 4 sweaters and 1 coat that have been UFO&#8217;s for the last 3 years. I have four sweaters and 1 coat in various stages of construction. The coat needs to be finished by he end of this month. Long story, but it&#8217;s for my knitting group that I go to on Sundays. I need to shock the heck out of someone by finishing it. Of the sweaters, 1 needs a neck, 1 needs sleeves and a neck and finishing, another needs just sleeves, and the last was frogged (the back and front) so really needs to be completely redone.<\/li>\n<li>Knit 4 pairs of socks and 2 pairs of legwarmers. Sounds simple, but in truth these should have been done ages ago (except the legwarmers). I won&#8217;t get into details, but let&#8217;s just say I need to do this. This year! It&#8217;s time.<\/li>\n<li>Peruse 1 knitting book each week. Some knitting books are difficult to read, so I used the word peruse. By this I mean I will ingest as much information as I can about the book. I&#8217;ll make notes of my favorites for a special project later this year. Stay tuned.<\/li>\n<li>Put up a new blog post 3x each week. I&#8217;ve gotten a little erratic over the last year or so in my postings. I&#8217;ll work on that. I have enough to say to probably do 2 posts a day, so 3 a week should be easy. And I&#8217;ve found it to be a good number to keep y&#8217;all interested. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, I think that that should suffice. Luckily, I&#8217;ve already knit 1,000 stitches today and I did so yesterday as well. The others, well, let&#8217;s just say this should be a fun and interesting year! And just in case you wondered what 365,000 stitches looked like, here you go &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/365000-stitchesweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2977\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;\" alt=\"365000-stitches\" src=\"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/365000-stitchesweb-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Hugzzz \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s that time again! What the heck happened to 2013? Oh well, time to seize the day, or in this case, year. 2014 will be grand &#8211; I can feel it. 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