Current Projects

This past Christmas I challenged myself to make all my presents. I started mid-October, and finished the last one Christmas Eve. I've been learning how to knit, and I found a couple gift-able patterns at my skill level. I also made a couple paintings. My plans are to start much earlier this year, and to always have projects I can work on. Below is a portrait painted onto a wooden button, then turned into a Christmas ornament.

I've set a few project goals for myself this year:

1. I want to learn how to cable-knit and knit multi-color. (Ravelry.com has tons of free patterns)

2. I'd like to learn how to program (because a long-term goal of mine is to make a video-game). I'm taking programming lessons from Codeacademy.com

3. Social projects. Friends and I are making the commitment to get together at least once a month to try new crafts/art techniques. So far we've made mounted deer head sculptures and shirt stencils.

4. Photo-a-Day: I'm taking part in a website where the group of us have challenged ourselves to post one photo a day for a year. I've been enjoying this so far this year.http://photoseachday.tumblr.com/