New Year, New Challenge.

As I mentioned before, I have rethought the monthly challenges that I normally would be talking about now, because I just found it to stressful to try to complete projects in the time allotted and, I was not having much fun working on them in the process.

Thus, I came up with a new idea for the challenge.

Instead of going month by month this year, I decided to turn the entire year into one long challenge, and that way I got to work on anything I wanted and, in the process, knock down my stash (Which is completely out of control).

So, with that, this year I plan to knit 10,000 meters in an all out knitting blow out.

I had to have rules though, and that was where I got stuck. However, I managed to come up with some very simple ones that will make for some interesting knitting in the next year.

1. Any yarn bought throughout the year must have the amount of it's meters subtracted from the amount knitted. EX: 1,000 meters knitted minus 500 meters bought, equal a total of 500 meters knitted. The exception to this rule is fibers, as it is harder to guess how many meters will come from it.

2. Hand spun yarn counts as it's meters times plys. Ex 100 meters of 3 ply hand spun equals 300 meters.

3. Projects begun before 1/1/2010 may not count in whole toward the total. However, subsequent balls of yarn used AFTER January 1, may be counted toward the total.

4. If a project has to be ripped out, the balls of yarn used may not be counted for a second time toward totals.

With that, I am going to set out on a year long challenge to knit my stash down to a more manageable level, and creat some awesome project in the meantime.