Fingerless Mitts #2- started 11/11/2025- Finished 2/6/2026
Soldotna – started 11/2025
Coziest Memory Blanket (Minis) used up all my yarn set aside for this project so it’s waiting for more stash yarn
Pom Pom Hat Kit (not yet started) but I’ve wound the yarn. I have to find a pattern I like and get this going because I do not have a small travel knit and I want this to be that.
Cozies Memory Blanket (Regular) **New, I pulled this out to do a square each week
Cozy Mini – status as of 2/9/2026March 2026
In queue:
sock projects in whatever order I feel like knitting them in
#1-Ricky’s ugly socks – I’m going to rip these up and start all over.
#2-Astrantia socks
#3- Sock it to me
Sweaters-
#1 – Soldotna (WIP)
#2 – Purple Yarn
Hats / Mittens
#1 – Pom Pom Hat Kit (WIP)
#2 – Jamieson’s color work (hat pattern picked but I still have to buy the pattern)
#3 – Mitts in a bag – Yggdrasil Miits by Skeindeer Knits (pattern is already in the bag with the yarn)
#4 – blue and white colorwork mitts? (no pattern and yarn is already wound up)
#5 – Yarn Cafe Creations (DK) – no pattern selected. just set aside with a note that says ‘hat’
#6 – Blue Manos and mohair. no pattern. intended to be knit together to create a halo (probably purchased around 12/2019 when our LYS was closing.)
#7 – Red Malabrigo – no pattern already wound up
#8 – woolly yarn (can’t remeber what it’s called and there’s no label except “lost city knits” purchased at 2019 Socal Stitches. note says it’s for mitts and I intended to use a Skeindeer pattern but I’m inclined to make a hat as I don’t use mitts a lot.
Shawls / Cowls
#1 – tranquility (red)
#2 – Outlander shawl
#3 – Advent yarn calendar from mindy (needs pattern)
#4 – blue (original tranquility but then frogged it because I didn’t like how it was coming together so I need a better for this)
Dailies- these are larger projects that I was doing one a day until J got tired…
#1 – advent calendar throw
#2 – coziest memory blanket (WIP)
#3 – corner to corner throw (crochet)
#4 – coziest memory (minis) (WIP)
LONG TERM: go through my stash. give away what I no longer want to knit and re-stash what I want to keep.
The next local mini is scheduled soon. At this point I think I have one scheduled monthly for the next few months. This is wonderful because my at home sewing has paused a bit while I recuperate from my short illness and get back into the groove of things.
Rising to the top of the list is my quilt “45 & Life to go”. I sent it out to the long armer so I can have it ready for our upcoming quilt show on 5/2. Now I have to quilt it and put a label on it so it’s ready for when I need to turn it in.
#1 – Jane Austen’s quilt – Hampshire Blocks
Finished Block 1- Chawton Block – 2/9/26
I’m not sure I’ll have anything to do at this retreat as I’ve got to sew these pieces together and that’s an at home project.
#2 – Monthly Door banner from 2024 – cut the final door banner kit – November.
—- This is on my homework to do list.
#3 – 2023 Saturday Sampler from QP.
step 1 of finishing part
I’m at the “putting-the-inner-top-together” stage and next is step 5.
Here is step 4
step 4
#4 – William Morris BOM – The next blocks to make are October, and January and the final 13th block. October is on my homework to do list but January and the 13th block are on the list for this retreat.
September block is done!
#5 – Tula Pink Butterfly 2.0 – Find out where I am next
Part 1: Stripes
#6 – Spooky Halloween – Row 2, block 3 – take a picture
Row 2- Block 1
I’ve started it and I’m needle turning the traditional method. I want to prep the next block as I work some in Block 3.
#7 – Tuella and Friends.
#8 – “Allietare” Bonnie Hunter’s mystery quilt from 2015 – My goal with putting this here is to start getting it into my queue. I don’t have time for it now but it’s on this list to start making its way from my head, to actually working on it.
last report – week 11.5- 2/18/2026 – there’s been so much rain I’ve had to come out and remove excess water. I’m hoping they are still good despite the too much water.week 13- 3/1/2026 – it feels like my babies are struggling… I think I removed too much when I removed the mulberries. I left more of the leaves on the last set to bloom and that one looks so much better. I hope the rest of the them bloom so I can remove the fruits and let the leaves grow.week 14- 3/7/26 – not looking good but I’m hoping as things warm up the leaves and buds unfurl. week 14- 3/7/26 – here’s the one cutting that looks like it’s doing well from another angle.week 15- 3/14/26 – the two that are looking good look better this week. several of the other have their fruits coming out. I’m being very careful and only removing fruit and keeping the leaves. I still do not see roots but I hope they are forming.
I asked my gardener to dig holes for some of my baby fruit trees that need to go in the ground asap. as well as extending my drip lines out. It’s been in the 80’s the last week or so so I’m considering adding a day of water. I’m currently watering twice a week but with the warmer weather I may need to up it to 3.
Happy gardening. I’m enjoying watching our short spring come about but the heat is fast approaching. Every year it comes sooner and longer while our chill months shorten.
After my mini quilt retreat I caught a bug and that laid me out a few weeks. Not much to post about as very little of anything is happening here except work, sleep, drugs, water and food. The bare necessities to keep me going while I recover from this illness.
Third row with the beading is all done. I am still enjoying the row by row at a time stitching on this project and I love how much I’m progressing on it.
Here’s where I was the last time I reported on this.
Important info: BOM with my fave LQS, Quilt Emporium, in Woodland Hills, CA. The shop owner, Lisa Hanson designed this mystery quilt with William Morris fabrics and I think it’s super inexpensive for a BOM at $15/month. Even though I decided no more BOMs, I couldn’t help but cave on this one.
I had quite a few hand work on my queue and this one didn’t make its way to the top for a while. I initially was going to do the circle by hand and the trellis part by machine. But after doing the circle decided to continue the handwork on the trellis. I love it.
September Block
Some of my friends are continuing with the big stitch around the circle and I kinda love it. I may go back later and add it on like I did the August block but for now this is done.
Blocks Made
December blockNovember BlockAugust Block finished July – all stitched downblock #5 – JuneAll the blocks so far. Block #4Block 3Block #2Block #1
