I’m not nursing too much of a hangover today. I stopped going out on New Year’s Eve about 11 years ago when I was expecting the eldest small person and have never got into the habit of doing it again. Though I imagine babysitters would charge treble for the pleasure of having to stay in while I went out and enjoyed myself and I don’t think it would be that much of a good time to make it worthwhile. Anyway, Mr B and I just drank nice champagne instead in front of the TV, which was nice and civilised.

So, on to my annual knitting resolutions. Last year’s Year of Lace proved to be very successful, as I posted last week. I think having general, non-specific targets works better as they’re a little more flexible. Plus having specific targets doesn’t mean I’m any more likely to do them, so there doesn’t seem much point…

I thought for a long while about what I’d like to do for 2009 and what struck me most as I looked at all my projects of the previous years is how few of them are for me. I love knitting for other people, so hopefully that doesn’t come across as whiny, but especially in the past few months, I’ve been either designing or making presents and it’s just been too much. *whispers* At one point I actually began to hate knitting. *hangs head in shame*

So 2009 is going to be my Year of Knitting Selfishly. I will still knit gifts if the mood takes me, but there’s always the option of fibre or yarn for knitterly people or just an M&S voucher for the non-knitters. A gift is still a gift even if it hasn’t been knitted with blood and sweat and desperation to hit a deadline.

From now on, 99% of all the projects on my needles will be for me. And, most importantly of all, I’m going to start with a sweater.