Look, Ma -- I've got a craft blog!

One of my big goals/resolutions/whatsits to keep me accountable in 2012 was to actually craft down my stash. Three main reasons:

1. I have... an addiction. I love yarn and fabric, and can't seem to help myself from buying fabric and patterns and yarn when they go on sale -- and even when they don't. At last count, I think I've got more than a mile of yarn in my apartment, and while I don't have enough fabric to coat a football field, it's probably getting close. I have 39 patterns. This is... problematic.
2. I also like clothes. I really like clothes. I like buying them, but hate how in this day and age, even though a girl may have an hourglass figure, of sorts (40-36-42), if it's not a stick thin hourglass, you might be out of luck finding what you need and want. And damnit, I like cute clothes. I love vintage styles, and I hate how it's hard to find clothes that are made well, yet affordable, and don't require you to wear three layers of camis and shirts just to not reveal yourself to the world.
3. I also am cheap. I have fabric and yarn, damnit, and it's silly to keep paying perfectly good money for more fabric and yarn, and then go out and buy more clothes. So, I figure if I can use the fabric and yarn and the patterns to make clothes and accessories that I like, I can save money. And if I save money, I can buy a house.

So here we go (albeit a bit late, which is why this and the next few posts are backdated). One sewn item and one knitted item each month for 2012. 12 months, 24 projects. I think I can do it.