A Fresh Look at Making Multicraftual Goals

A new year often arrives with a rush of expectations. It starts with a mix of excitement to set goals, but often without enough thought, many of these New Year’s plans have already started to fall short before the first month is done. Keeping up with goals feels urgent, plans feel heavy, and creativity can start to feel like something that needs to be managed. 

In this video and blog post, Felicia Lo shares why she chose a gentle and slow start to her 2026 planning. There is value in taking a little extra time to start with intention. Rather than rushing forward, a thoughtful beginning sets the tone for the entire year. In this video, Felicia reflects on her past goal-setting and explains why she is stepping away from rigid timelines in favour of something more flexible and supportive for her creative curiosities as a multicraftual maker.

Calendar-Set Goals

Felicia, like many of us, is naturally curious and deeply creative. With so many crafts and skills to explore, planning and structure are always helpful. Using concepts like the Plan Your Make Nine Challenge, creating a grid of nine projects or skills and assigning each one a place in the year, helps many multicraftual makers stay focused. This method offers a clear, bird’s-eye view of the year and makes room for many different forms of making.

But one method doesn’t work for everyone. For Felicia, over time, a pattern began to emerge. While the clarity from this planning felt good at first, those ideas often end up locked into a calendar. Craft time slowly started to feel like work. Projects turn into obligations, and the sense of exploration fades. And when everything is planned down to the minute, progress feels harder, not easier, and motivation quietly slips away.

Felicia writing out her 2026 goals
Felicia does a “brain dump” of all the things she would like to explore this year.

Multicraftual-Set Goals

That reflection led Felicia to a shift in how she is approaching 2026, focusing on the joy of making and the process. Instead of chasing productivity, choose curiosity, play, and follow what feels meaningful in the moment.

To support this approach, Felicia turned to our Crafting with Intention: Set Creative Goals & Plan Your Year! blog post for the Free PDF as a planning tool. Rather than narrowing her focus to just one project, she allowed space for multiple interests, including dyeing, spinning, weaving, crocheting, and knitting, then wrote down what she wanted to learn or make in each craft. After, she could see the natural connections between fibre, yarn, and fabric, with the projects, crafts, and skills she could connect.

This process encourages movement without pressure. Ideas flow from one stage to the next, and there is freedom to change direction without guilt. Most importantly, the focus shifts from deadlines to exploration, and embracing the multicraftual nature of the fibre arts, while still aiming for your goals.

Falling Leaves Sweater
Goals can be finishing an older project, like this Falling Leaves Sweater….
CSM Ribber
…or to learn how to use new accessories for equipment you own, like the CSM Ribber!

Final Thoughts

As a final thought, Felicia shares what truly keeps her grounded in her creative practice. Community. Making alongside others, exchanging ideas, and feeling part of something larger offers support and gentle accountability without taking away the joy. Our SweetGeorgia Community offers support, encouragement, and inspiration. If you are not a member yet, we invite you to come over and take a look around. 

While we summarize the video in this blog post, we do encourage you to watch the video. Felicia dives deep into how and why she makes these changes, and you may ultimately decide a calendar-set goal is better for you. There are many different ways to set up and plan for multicraftual goals. We, just like Felicia, are always changing and adjusting what works for us. And what works for you one year may not work the next year. We love looking at things from a different angle, trying new approaches, and seeing what works (or not). Just like a lot of our making, you don’t know if you don’t try!

Lastly, we hope this video and blog post serves as a quiet reminder that creativity does not need to be tightly scheduled to be meaningful, and having many finished projects doesn’t equate to being successful. Sometimes the most productive thing we can do is slow down, listen closely, and make space for creativity.

Felicia craft board
A snapshot of Felicia’s multicraftual goal board.

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