I was intrigued several years ago when a co-worker made a comment that people, like fields, need fallow time.  While I haven't been completely idle these last few months, I've certainly had less of a to-do list mentality.  My goal for January is to lower my expectations of what will be accomplished, and to pick one small task or activity and just focus on that.  Bake apple cake.  Write a letter.  Put something away that's been sitting out for a long time.  Watch Gilmore Girls and knit.

This cardigan has been on my radar for some time, ever since it appeared in a Debbie Bliss magazine a couple of years back.   Over the holidays, I finally bought appropriate yarn for it, and am just finishing up the right front.  Kimono sleeves are knit concurrently with the front and back pieces, and it's hard to tell intuitively exactly what's going on and how it will come together and fit.  This is one of those times when I'm just blindly trusting the pattern.  No doubt it will be fine.

And while it's mid-January, it's not too late to announce new year's resolutions.  What's in store for 2013?  Eating more often at French restaurants.  And reading another Daphne du Maurier novel.  Resolved!