Journaling for the New Year: Virtual Workshop with Felix Ford

Details

Date: Friday, December 12, 2025

Time: Noon-2:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Location: Zoom—this is a virtual event. The class will be recorded, and participants will have access to the video indefinitely—we won’t take it down, but we recommend that you watch it as soon as you can!

There is something about Felix Ford’s open, spritely spirit that eases and lightens our hearts. From her previous workshop and talks for MDK, we know that you love spending time with Felix, too! We can think of no better to say farewell to 2025 and welcome 2026 than with a joyful journaling session with Felix.

Drawing on Felix’s popular Knitsonik Bullet Journaling class, this year-end/new year class focuses on celebrating your wins and outlining your wishes. It will be a time spent marking new thresholds in your life; and envisioning 2026 in the most uplifting way.

It’s also a class that shows how to use symbols and images as powerful tools for resilience and support—and laughter. Felix will share her own beloved symbols, and you’ll soon add your own collection of images that function as inside jokes and affirmations for the soul.

The Class  

Grab your journal and/or as much stationery as you like (see supplies list below) and we will take time to focus on our dreams and feelings for 2026. Together we will glue, stick, and write our own encouraging reminders to turn to throughout the coming year.

To support you in this activity, Felix will guide you through a set of symbols that have uplifted her own journaling through the last ten years. You will receive a set of printables featuring these symbols ahead of class. Print them out and bring them to use on loose sheets of paper or in the pages of your journal.

We’ll focus on:

• Anything that’s gone well/any task you would like to acknowledge/any hard thing you got through
• Any wishes for 2026
• Things that are lighting you up creatively (list as many as you can)
• Any thresholds or new eras you’re entering? First year in new home/65th year of you/first
  year of retirement or new job
• Anything you meant to do in 2025 and didn’t quite get to
• Anywhere in your life where you need more support/resources/capacity/energy
• Your most fantastical vision for 2026—dream and don’t overthink it.
• Anything you wandered away from in 2025 and would like revisit this year 
• Things you’re grateful for
• Anything you’d like to kindly erase/rub out/forget as you move into the new year
  

Supplies List

Essential

Several sheets of paper or a few blank pages in your bullet journal or other notepad of choice. Order the MDK Bullet Journal here, if you like.

2 sheets of the printables included in your order confirmation. Plain paper is great; those wanting extra credit can print them on sticker paper!

A glue stick and paper scissors

A ballpoint, fountain pen, or other preferred writing implement

One or two highlighter pens or light-colored felt tip pens

Optional 

You can also bring and use any other stationery supplies that make you happy (especially anything you’re hoarding and not using because it feels too special).

For example:

A ruler if you care about lines being straight

Rubber stamps and ink pads, stickers, washi tape

Ephemera—ticket stubs, photos, receipts, magazine pages for collaging, or other paper tokens that remind you of special events

Inks, watercolors or watercolor pencils—anything you’d like to use

Our Workshop Leader

Felicity (Felix) Ford is an artist who believes that creativity and social change go hand in hand. As KNITSONIK, she’s been working with knitting and sound since 2005, when she joined a knitting circle in Oxford, England, while studying for her MA and PhD in sound art. Her sound works include a podcast series about disability; a PhD exploring the under appreciated sounds of domestic space; and commissions for TATE Modern, The Dickens Museum, and The Wellcome Library. Felix now writes knitting books celebrating the everyday in stranded colorwork, and teaches workshops that empower her fellow knitters around creative self-expression.