April 2021 Goals

Well, I disappeared for a while again… life has gotten so busy 😦 Gracie had 4 puppies!

WIPGO Goals:

• Kringles – 1000 stitches
• Advent Animals – 200 stitches
• Lantern Lane – 500 Stitches
• Red – 1000 stitches
• World Wonder Map – 700 stitches
• Alex’s Quilt – 10 hours
• Starflake Shawl – 10 hours
• Slipstravaganza Shawl – 10 hours
• Heart of Glass Tee – 10 hours
• Husband’s Socks – 10 hours
• Halloween Socks – 10 hours
• Jane Austen Cowl – 10 hours

Seasonal Goals:

• Spring Quilt – 1000 Stitches
• Celtic Spring – 1000 Stitches
• Spring Garden – 1000 Stitches
• Spring Queen – 1000 Stitches
• Spring Celebration – 1000 Stitches
• May Cottage – 1000 Stitches
• June Cottage – 1000 Stitches

Other Craft/Stitching Goals:

• Sew on Velcro on all Project Bags
• Make 30 Knitting Project Bags
• Cut Fabric for Log Cabin Quilt
• 5 mini charm pack flowers
• Catch up on Bits and Bobs
• Stay caught up on Granny Stripe
• finish mini yarn cozy for Husband

Zombie Run Projects:

• Serengeti – 1200 stitches
• Gloria – FINISH
• Pandemic – 1200 stitches
• Halloween Rules – 1200 stitches

October Goals

So, I wasn’t really good at sticking to my goals in September or August, and I’m not really holding my breathe for this month. With having the 24-hour read-a-thon, a lot of craft time is spent on getting that organized and set up and contacting volunteers. However, that isn’t going to stop me from setting some goals. For the most part, my goals are similiar to the ones from the previous months. I will put a bit more focus on Christmas presents and Knitting projects (for the DC Pigskin Party).

WIPGO Goals:

• Lantern Lane –  Left Fence and everything below
• Welcome SAL – First 4 pages
• Dressmaker’s Daughter – 500 Stitches
• Epic Disney Princesses – Castle
• Giant Harry Potter – Top Row of pages
• One Nation – 25 Stars Complete
• So Many Books, So Little Time – 500 Stitches
• Visit Mordor  – 500 Stitches
• Serengeti Mandala  – All the colors (not black) stitched on the 3 sides of part 2 (1 side is out of reach)
• Halloween Rules  – Finish five parts (1 a week)
• Letter to Hogwarts  – Start
• M.A.P. SAL  – Top border
• US Presidents  – top row of Presidents & surrounding border
• Celtic Summer – Small motifs on the border
• Once Upon a Fairytale Shelf – 500 stitches
• Advent Animal #2 – finish cross stitching the animal
• Paris Mandala – Finish the Cross Stitching on Part 1
• London Mandala – Finish the Cross Stitching on the last small garden
• Lady of the Flag – Finish the Flag

Seasonal Goals:

• Autumn Quilt – 1000 Stitches
• Celtic Autumn – 1000 Stitches
• Autumn Garden – 1000 Stitches
• Autumn Queen – 1000 Stitches
• Fall Celebration – 1000 Stitches
• September Cottage – 460/1000 Stitches
• October Cottage – 1000 Stitches
• November Cottage – 1000 Stitches

Other Craft/Stitching Goals:

• Make Ornament Exchange Project
• Sew on Velcro on all Project Bags
• Make 30 Knitting Project Bags
• Bella’s Afghan 9 color changes – 9
• Bri’s Afghan – finish 3rd set of repeats
• Dad’s Socks Finished
• Mumsy’s Socks Started
• Start Isaac’s Afghan – 5 Color Changes
• Finish Part 2 & 3 of the Perfect Blend Advent Calendar – 0/2
• La La Simple Shawl (October WIPGO) – 5 hours
• Purple Baby Hats (October WIPGO) – 4 hats

Stretch Non-Stitching WIPGO Goals:

• Work on Goldberry Shawl for 2 hrs
• Work on Auntie’s Shawl for 2 hrs
• Cut out all fabric for Alex’s Quilt
• 1 round a week on Delft Sophie (5 rounds total)
• Finish Halloween Stripey Socks
• Work for 2 hours on Reyna Shawl
• Make 2 Christmas Balls
• Work on Grinda Shawl for 2 hrs
• 1 round a week on Phoenix Afghan (5 rounds total)
• Make 5 Washclothes – 0/5
• 1 repeat a week on the Emiliana Shawl (5 repeats total)
• Beautiful Shells Afghan – Finished
• Liliana Afghan – Finish Part 3

September Goals

So, I wasn’t really good at sticking to my goals in August, and I’m not really holding my breathe for this month. With having my mom in country, a lot of craft time is spent on things that are important to her or that she can take back to family. However, that isn’t going to stop me from setting some goals. For the most part, my goals are similiar to the ones from the previous month. I will put a bit more focus on the WIPGO projects. In addition, in terms of months, I consider September, October, and November to be the “Fall” months. So I will be tailoring my season goals towards those months. I’ve decided to make a goal of 1000 stitches per a seasonal goal… HOWEVER, this will be a season long goal, not one that needs to be completed in a single month. If I find that goal isn’t big enough, I will adjust it later in the season. Until then, below are my September goals.

WIPGO Goals:

• Lantern Lane –  Left Fence and everything below
• Welcome SAL – First 4 pages
• Dressmaker’s Daughter – 500 Stitches
• Epic Disney Princesses – Castle
• Giant Harry Potter – Top Row of pages
• One Nation – 15 Stars Complete
• So Many Books, So Little Time – 500 Stitches
• Visit Mordor  – 500 Stitches
• Serengeti Mandala  – All the colors (not black) stitched on the 3 sides of part 2 (1 side is out of reach)
• Halloween Rules  – Finish two parts
• Letter to Hogwarts  – Start
• M.A.P. SAL  – Top border
• US Presidents  – top row of Presidents & surrounding border
• Celtic Summer – Small motifs on the border
• Once Upon a Fairytale Shelf – 500 stitches
• Advent Animal #2 – finish cross stitching the animal
• Paris Mandala – Finish the Cross Stitching on Part 1

Seasonal Goals:

• Autumn Quilt – 1000 Stitches
• Celtic Autumn – 1000 Stitches
• Autumn Garden – 1000 Stitches
• Autumn Queen – 1000 Stitches
• Fall Celebration – 1000 Stitches
• September Cottage – 460/1000 Stitches
• October Cottage – 1000 Stitches
• November Cottage – 1000 Stitches

Other Craft/Stitching Goals:

• Scooby Doo Stitching Project for Alex – START AND COMPLETE
  • Turn FO into a pillow
• Scobby Doo Project Bag for Alex – START AND COMPLETE
• Make Ornament Exchange Project
• Sew on Velcro on all Project Bags
• Make 2 more Knitting Project Bags -1
• Bella’s Afghan 5 color changes -1/5
• Bri’s Afghan – finish 2nd set of repeats
• Dad’s Socks Finished
• Mumsy’s Socks Finished
• Beautiful Shells Afghan – Finished (September WIPGO)
• Liliana Afghan – Finish Part 3 (September WIPGO)

Stretch Non-Stitching WIPGO Goals:

• Work on Goldberry Shawl for 2 hrs
• Work on Auntie’s Shawl for 2 hrs
• Cut out all fabric for Alex’s Quilt
• 1 round a week on Delft Sophie (5 rounds total)
• Cast on Halloween Stripey Sock
• Work for 2 hours on Reyna Shawl
• Make 2 Christmas Balls
• Work on Grinda Shawl for 2 hrs
• 1 round a week on Phoenix Afghan (5 rounds total)
• Make 5 Washclothes – 1/5
• 1 repeat a week on the Emiliana Shawl (5 repeats total)

August Goals

So I spent the last few hours updating the blog and rearranging things. One thing I just couldn’t get off my mind was my October 2017 Goals post. Yes, I know I never really followed through on it. But this is something that I have decided I want to really try to do again. I had forgotten that I used to divide the goals into categories and then use that as a check list. So below I am going to make some goals. I may revisit them in the coming days as challenges are released. But then I will revisit this post throughout the month and update it and then do a final report at the end of the month.

WIPGO Goals:

• Lantern Lane –  Left Fence and everything below
• Welcome SAL – First 4 pages
• Dressmaker’s Daughter – 250 Stitches
• Epic Disney Princesses – Castle
• Giant Harry Potter – Top Row of pages
• One Nation – 10 Stars Complete
• So Many Books, So Little Time – 250 Stitches
• Visit Mordor  – 250 Stitches
• Serengeti Mandala  – Part 1 Complete
• Halloween Rules  – Finish one part
• Letter to Hogwarts  – Start
• Labrador & German Shepherd (Focus for a Finish Rotation) – Finish
• M.A.P. SAL  – Top border
• US Presidents  – 2 more Presidents
• Celtic Summer – Small motifs on the border
• Once Upon a Time Fairytale Shelf – This may be changed due to the issue at HAED with 08 and 09.

Seasonal Goals:

• Summer Quilt – 500 Stitches
• Celtic Summer – 500 Stitches
• Summer Garden – 500 Stitches
• Summer Queen – 500 Stitches
• Summer Celebration – 500 Stitches
• June Cottage – 500 Stitches
• July Cottage – 500 Stitches
• August Cottage – 500 Stitches

Other Craft Goals:

• Start Ornament Exchange project
• 10 Projects Bags
• Bella’s Afghan Finished
• Slytherin Socks Finished
• Dad’s Socks Finished
• Mumsy’s Socks Started
• Auntie’s Shawl to the next color change – WIPGO Board (August)
• Alex’s Quilt – Finish cutting out all the fabric – WIPGO Board (August)

Again, I am the Absolute Worst

So it has been years since I touched this blog. I’m not even sure what made me think about it again. Since my last post, a lot has changed in my life. I took up knitting. I’ve gotten married. I am a dog mom to two Maltipoos. I quit my job just as COVID-19 Shelter in Place took affect, which means I couldn’t get a new job in the industry I had wanted to work in (library). So I’m not working at the moment. All of the above means that this time I have to seriously implement a stitch from stash.

Gracie and Georgie sleeping. They’re inseparable.

I was looking through my past posts and I saw my 10 hour rotation and I’ve been really wanting to do that again. I just worry that I won’t be able to because I’m in way too many stitching challenge groups. But maybe now is the time to try it. So much has changed that I obviously need to create new categories. There may end up being more than 12. I don’t know. I’m up to 185 WIPs and I would really like to try to WIP down (but I’m addicted to starts…)

I am thinking of making 1000 stitch goals. I can create a small update every week with stitch count updates and pictures . Sort of an accountability thing. I would like to implement this stating August first so in the mean time, I have a lot of updating to do on the blog. Take down some pages and create other pages. So let’s see what happens.

October Goals

Below will be my goals for October. Each month I hope to make a post with the goals for that month that I can come back to and check off. It will be divided into multiple sections with the main priority going to the Year of WIPS goals. So, without further ado:

Year of WIPS Goals:

• October Cottage – 1200 Stitches
• November Cottage – 500 Stitches
• A Christmas Carol – 600 Stitches
• Mollie – 3231 Stitches
• Giant Harry Potter – 200 Stitches
• To Have and To Hold – 200 Stitches
• Esther’s Waves – 100 Stitches
• London Gardens – 200 Stitches
• Serengeti Mandala – 1400 Stitches

Seasonal Goals:

• Autumn Quilt – 2000 Stitches
• Celtic Autumn – 2000 Stitches
• Autumn Garden – 2000 Stitches

Non-Year of WIP Goals:

• Wee Little Stitches – 500 Stitches
• Around the World in 80 Stitches by Papillon – 500 Stitches
• 12 Days of Christmas by Plum Street Sampler – 500 Stitches
• Wonderland Series by Brooke’s Books Publishing – 1500 Stitches
• Scappy Quilt by Carolyn Manning – 100 Stitches
• Trick or Treat by Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery – 500 Stitches
• Merry and Bright by Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery – 100 Stitches

Mill Hill Ornament Goals:

• Fully Finish Angelina for Mom and Dad
• Fully Finish For Santa For Nephew
• Fully Finish Nunavut Santa for Sister 1

I am the absolute worst

I am the absolute worst craft blogger in the world. I wish I was exaggerating. But this is the first update in a year. And before that was the first update in three years.

Anyway, I just spent about three hours updating the blog and I created a new page that is about my 2018 Year of WIPS plans (PS: I did not stick to the rotation plan… that lasted all of one month). I’m thinking what I will try to do this time around is to update the blog once a month at the end of the month with progress pics as I try to complete my WAY TOO ambitious of goals for 2018. I’m hoping, however, that as one goal gets taken care of, more progress will be made on some of the more ambitious goals.

Here’s to hoping anyway…

Rotation 2017 Plans

Since I have probably around 100 WIPs (I’m scared to count them) and most are BAPs, I plan to do a Stitch From Stash for the whole year. I also tend to be a serial starter and a never finisher and I would really like to change that. I picked twelve designer / designs and my plan is to stitch 10 hours on each before cycling back around. However, because I am a moody stitcher, I’m not saying that it has to be to work on a project for 10 hours before moving on to the next. Just, the rotation ends when each project has 10 hours worked on it. And to not go over the 10 hours by more than an hour or so (sometimes you get really into a project and you lose track of time). Once I have put in the ten hours in my rotation I will strike out the project. Once all categories are crossed off, the rotation will begin again. You will notice that some of the categories have multiple projects. I do not need to work on the same project for the whole ten hours. So, for example, I could stitch 5 hours on Giant Harry Potter, 3 hours on Walking Venice and 2 hours on Spooky World SAL to get my ten hours for Cloudsfactory). So my rotation at this moment is:

(1) Serengeti Mandala by Chatelaine – gift for my Mom and Dad
(2) London Mandala by Chatelaine – gift for younger sister 2
(3) Paris Mandala by Chatelaine – gift for younger sister 1
(4) Dressmaker’s Daughter by Mirablia – gift for younger sister 3
(5) Brooke’s Books – I have the Wonderland Series and I signed up for her Fairytales Dress up project.
(6) Country Cottage – Have the cottage of the month series and the Santa’s Village series.
(7) Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery – I have the Merry Bright Club, the Trick or Treat Club, the National Parks pattern, and the Story Time Sampler
(8) Cloudsfactory – I have the It’s a Spooky World SAL and plan on getting the christmas one too when released. Also have Giant Harry Potter. And walking in Venice and Walking in Paris (gifts for Sisters 1&2)
(9) Celtic Ladies – I have all 5 Celtic ladies from Lavender & Lace
(10) Northern Expression – Have Twisted Rainbow, Twisted Band, Esther’s Waves, and the Mini Twisted patterns
(11) Advent Animals – Yes, I know this is from Brooke’s Books but I want to finish these and turn them into ornaments so they get there own place in the rotation
(12) Heaven and Earth Design – If I listed what I have started here, this list would never stop. Probably 50 starts
(13) Tentative Category for “Others”. I have a lot of WIPs that I love that don’t fit in any of the above so if I get one screaming at me, the time spent on that will come out of this category. But again, only 10 hours per a rotation.

Major Revamping about to Take Place

It has been a long time since I have updated this blog. Nearly three years. And I feel bad about that. I miss documenting my work. That being said, I have branched off a lot on my style and crafts since I originally started this blog. So I am going to have to work hard to get things how I want them. But I really want to do it. So I will be spending the upcoming months re-organizing and deciding what I want my crafts blog to be. And also, hopefully, organize myself so I don’t have well over 100 WIPS.

Turtle Trot 2014

Okay, this is like a day late, but I literally only just found out about it and it is still January 10th in my timezone….

Anyway, this is the Turtle Trot 2014

That Rules:

1. You must have a blog, because you’ll be posting links to it. If you don’t have a blog, you can still work on those old projects, lol. You just won’t be eligible for the contest.

2. Pick 10 unfinished projects (why not 14 for 2014? I can’t cope with where this will end up – 43 projects in 2043? Yikes)

3. Take a picture of them and make a blog post by the 10th of January.

4. Each month, by the 10th, post whatever progress pics you have.

5. Post a link to your progress post here.

Turtle 1 –  Around the World in 80 Stitches – Papillon Creations:

 

Turtle 2 –  Christmas Dreams by Heaven and Earth Designs

 

Turtle 3 – Gardens of London Mandala by Chatelaine Designs:

This is a piece that doesn’t start until April 2014, but I look forward to diving right in once it is released!

Turtle 4 – Gardens of Paris Mandala by Chatelaine Designs:

This is a design that I will start once the chart arrives in my inbox and I have gathered some materials. I was hoping that it would be buy this weekend, but it might not be meant to be…

Turtle 5 – Love with a Capital L by Papillon Creations:

            

 

Turtle 6 – Map of Middle Earth (Large) by Heaven and Earth Designs:

 

Turtle 7 – Mini So Many Books so Little Time by Heaven and Earth Designs:

 

Turtle 8 – Our Savior Our Teacher by Heaven and Earth Designs:

 

Turtle 9 – Santa’s Village by Country Cottage Needlework:

           

 

Turtle 10 – Santa’s Village BLANKET by Country Cottage Needlework:

Yes, this is the same design as that above, except I am stitching it also as a blanket. Can’t really say which I am more excited about!!!

         

 

Turtle 11 – The Nativity by Heaven and Earth Designs

This one will be the focal piece this year. I am doing it for my mom as a secret present for a few years in the future.

 

Turtle 12 – Token of Love by Wiehenberg:

 

Turtle 13 – Treasure Hunt Bookshelf by Heaven and Earth Designs:

Turtle 14 – Tree of Stitches by Bee’s Needlework:

There we go. Fourteen BAPs to be worked on during 2014. It took nearly 2 hours for all of the pictures to download so now I am definitely late to be uploading this, but I am hoping that it will be accepted. I didn’t hear about this event until tonight.