2015 - onwards and upwards!

After a bit of a struggle to remember my password, I'm ready to get going in my first blog of the new year! I love this time of year and the feelings of taking stock of the past and looking forward to new opportunities.

I seem to have been very busy last year, but not always as productive as all the activity would warrant, so making the best use of my time is something I'm going to have to keep track of for 2015. To that end, I've decided to have rest from Harpenden Farmers' market this year. Although some individual months were great and it's a pleasure to go there, overall the year's taking don't justify all the work. I'll still be going to St Albans, which has really built up well and it's in the same area, so determined Harpenden customers can still get to me! I'm there on the 11th for my first market of the new year.

A week after, on the 18th, is the first wool show of the year - the Waltham Abbey Wool Show. It's  local to me which is great and was really busy last year, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm a little low on stock, but I've been doing lots of dyeing and hope to have built up to a respectable level over the next couple of weeks.

I've signed up for a new show in May, Fandango, run by Iknit which will be in the Horticultural Halls in central London, again pretty local to me. I'll have to take the car up to load and unload, but will be able to commute by train for the rest of the time - another plus!

I'm hoping to get into Wonderwool Wales in April - the results of the applications should be out any day now, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I didn't get into Unravel, but am hoping for a cancellation, and I'll apply for Yarndale again later in the year.

With my ready-made items, I'm going to look at going to more "country house" type fairs and generally move a bit more into upmarket homewares, but that's all in the planning stage for this year and 2016 will see more action.

That's it for this post - a Happy New Year to all, let's hope it's a prosperous one too!