Fiber Goals from years past

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This year is the 10th year I’ll be doing fiber goals, and I wanted to revisit some previous year’s goals, so I’m starting by making myself a mega post with all of them to contemplate. Fiber goals are meant to be fun things that bring me joy, and organizing them like this helps me prioritize some fun things in my life. So many new years resolutions are kind of chores or guilt-based, and I’d like to avoid that!

It’s kind of interesting to see the progression of what I’ve learned and where I put my focus over the years. Most of these goals were successful. There’s a few that I don’t need to revisit: the pants and that quilt are done and I’m not doing them again! But a lot of these could be revisited with new projects — I definitely have more gift yarn and brioche patterns and a few more “famous” patterns in my queue, plus I’ve got lots of beautiful stash that I want to use.

• 2024 Fiber Goals (End of year “how did I do” post isn’t written yet. Here’s the half-year one.)
  
  
  
  • Gift Yarn
  
  
  
  
  
  • Lesser Used Crafts
  
  
  
  
  
  • Pants
  
  
  
  
  
  • Colour play
  
  
  
  





• 2023 Fiber Goals (How did I do?)
  
  
  
  • Toys
  
  
  
  
  
  • Hand-dyed, hand-spun
  
  
  
  
  
  • Complicated cables
  
  
  
  
  
  • Patterns I own
  
  
  
  





• 2022 Fiber Goals (How did I do?)
  
  
  
  • Rainbows 🌈
  
  
  
  
  
  • Advents past 🎄
  
  
  
  
  
  • Where we’re going, we don’t need patterns 🕸️
  
  
  
  
  
  • Finish the sabbatical quilt 🪡
  
  
  
  





• 2021 Fiber goals (How did I do?)
  
  
  
  • Knit something famous
  
  
  
  
  
  • Self striping stuff
  
  
  
  
  
  • Kits in Stash
  
  
  
  
  
  • Crochet cables
  
  
  
  





• 2020 Fiber goals (How did I do?)
  
  
  
  • Whittle down the WIPs and Query the Queue.
  
  
  
  
  
  • A Bit of Brioche.
  
  
  
  
  
  • Top to Toes
  
  
  
  
  
  • Some Smaller Shawls
  
  
  
  





• 2019 Fiber goals (How did I do?)
  
  
  
  • Learn Steeking
  
  
  
  
  
  • Document better
  
  
  
  
  
  • Finish another sweater
  
  
  
  
  
  • Play with mini skeins
  
  
  
  





• 2018 Fiber goals (How did I do?)
  
  
  
  • Use more of my project kits
  
  
  
  
  
  • More amigurumi!
  
  
  
  
  
  • Spin the neat fiber kit Kathy got me
  
  
  
  
  
  • Organize the stash
  
  
  
  





• 2017 Fiber goals (that is the “how did I do?” post)
  
  
  
  • Knit a “seamless” sweater this time
  
  
  
  
  
  • Try some new types of needles.
  
  
  
  
  
  • Knit more handspun
  
  
  
  
  
  • Create and release more patterns
  
  
  
  





• 2016 Fiber goals are in bottom of 2017 post above.
  
  
  
  • Knit a sweater for myself
  
  
  
  
  
  • Practice colourwork
  
  
  
  
  
  • Learn some new skills
  
  
  
  
  
  • Improve my stash for the things I make
  
  
  
  

The one highly specific goal that I never finished: I never *did* spin that fiber kit from 2018. Maybe 2025 is the year for it!