This is the time of year when everyone & especially bloggers, seem to talk about what they accomplished & what their goals are for the next year.

I’ll at some point write up a recap of last year & how I did with my challenges, but not today .

I did want to share my goals for next year. I tried to be more realistic then I’ve been in years past, but still challenge myself a little.

First, design goals:
* continue to submit. This is really tough for me, but last year I started to submit & I’ll write more about that later, but it’s important to me that I continue to try.
* at least LEARN about advertising outside of Ravelry. I may not actually do so, but I want to start figuring out what my options are & where to advertise. Anyone have any experience with this? Care to share?
* self-publish at least 12 crochet patterns & 3 knit patterns. Yes, I said knit! It’s good for me, as a designer, to get outside of my comfort zone.
* complete my crochet master’s through the guild, finish my knit & crochet certification, & at least explore other avenues of teaching (locations)
* get back into blogging. Yes, I know I’ve been really lazy this year with blogging, between my site being down for a couple of months, & starting to teach, the blogging’s gone by the wayside, but I think it’s very important as a designer that I maintain an online presence besides on Ravelry
* continue to donate patterns as prizes when opportunity arises – I’ve felt from the very beginning that this is very important to me, both for me personally & as a design business
* Run another cal on my Ravelry group. Something “big” ??

Craft goals:
* learn to weave. yes, I really want to do it this year! Even if just on little loooms!
* hairpin lace. I have quite a collection of hairpin lace (vintage) looms & I’d really like to explore this craft more
* continue to concentrate on charity projects as much as possible. My “main” charity goal this year is a dozen patriotic afghans to donate to local veterans by Veteran’s Day. I’ll continue to make afghans for the local nursing homes & to whoever else needs them, and like I have the last several years, leave myself open to whatever other charity projects may come my way

Other goals:
sad to say, none really, other than to try to read more this year – I managed 32 books/audiobooks for 2012, which is not at all bad considering I work full time, teach when I can, & run a design business. This ties with 2009, is a little worse than 2010 (40, my best year since I started keeping track) and is much, much better than the FOUR I read in 2008. I’m not going to set a goal other than to read more, so, let’s see 36 books for 2013!