Looking back at the year, time to reflect. All up a good year — what about you? Major events, changes, projects?
It was a year of ups and downs for me. I wrote a book, made 12 (make that 14) quilts, wrote two book proposals, published 5 issues of Action Pack magazine, dreamed and planned for our trip away (a year of travel 2013 — read about it here). I had a minor melt down, my daughter grew taller than me, I read lots of books, I turned 41 … I crocheted, I sewed, I cooked, I blogged, I parented, I gardened … mostly a good year.
Looking back at the year through the eyes of whipup.net: — the highlights … a year of real life
January 2012 — a month of tutorials, controversy and taking it slowly – this was my 2012 welcome letter
- Button up cup cosy tutorial
- Quilting controversy ~ F*ck quilts (and a follow up)
- Convection mittons tutorial
- Back to school lunch kit tutorial
- Intentional doing + slow
- Chefs hat tutorial
- How to get your craft book published mini series — part 1 — part 2 — part 3
- Mid season quilt tutorial
- Guest post – gilding the city
- Sleep mask tutorial
- Popular knitting and crochet patterns
February 2012 – a month of quilts and science and crochet
- Introducing a few of the quilts from my Little Bits Quilting Bee book — Community garden, Constructivist, Summer Sundae, Garnets and Gold, Pop wreath, Sunny day mat, Crimson Cross, Lollypop tree, Squadron, Cloudsong
- Launched the Mad Scientist issue of Action Pack magazine for kids
- I crocheted a scrappy steps afghan
- Thinking about 40
March 2012 – A bit of this and that – Fabric, knitting and crochet
- Colours of Australia
- Guest post – art with kids
- Launched the Easter Special Action Pack magazine for kids
- Playing with fabrics and again
- Guest post – how blogging changed my craft
- Granny flower square obsession + crochet afghan obsession
- Knitting nerds
April 2012 – family and kids and social media and balance
- Launch of the creativity guest post series
- My girl turned 12
- instagramming
- Things to do during school break
- Finding balance
May 2012 – Real life and creativity
- Creativity series continues
- Monetising your craft blog
- The value of creativity
- Listen and watchf
- Slowing down and connecting
- Crafting is my lifeboat
- A bit of real life
- Stitch by stitch, I healed
June 2012 – A really full month of creativity
- Creativity series continues
- Never let a crisis go to waste
- Creativity is the soul of motherhood
- Open ended creativity
- Self publishing
- Launched Family Cooking edition of Action Pack magazine for kids
- Hurrah for women
- Slow mastery of a craft
- Step outside the rat race
- Mistakes become opportunities
- How my business became my hobby
July 2012 – Creativity, and real life discussion
- Self publishing q&A
- Time and creativity
- not a lot of serious
- I began a social media series for quilters in an Aussie Quilting magazine
- Visual overload
- Finding time
- Snatching a little creativity
- Sewing with the flow
- How craft gave me back my confidence
- Our creativity guest series finished
August 2012 – a month of this and that — slowing down, romance, quilting and knitting
- Quilting resources
- Structured procrastination
- Kids crafts and activities
- Hot knitting patterns
- Jane Austen
- Crochet saved my life
- Chicken soup
- Slowing down
- Creativity series round up page
September 2012 – knitting designers, and truth
- Some truths
- Launch of Go Tribal Action Pack magazine for kids
- Knitting designer series began
- Introducing knitting essays
- From idea to published pattern
- Playing with blocks
- my house is a mess
- Processing
- Creating a knitting pattern
- A turning point
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