February is over and just as I was late in posting my Feb update, I am late in posting my March plans. I have them, the plans, always as I feel like I plan every day for something, I just forget to post it. I like posting it though because I can see what I’ve accomplished and that helps me clarify what my next steps are and keeps me moving forward. Even though I don’t do the weekly to do lists like I used to. As always, I went into extensive detail on my plans here, for quilty here, for knitty here, and for cross stitch here.

Here’s the short list:

Quilts –

• Jan Krentz – Diamond Star – still working on… I haven’t touched it at all
• Bonnie Hunter – Grassy Creek – I finished Clue 4 and I need to get started on Clue 5. See here for the most recent post.
• Scrappy Stars Around the Corner
• Dancing with the Stars
• Radiant Jewel
• Gardenvale
• Allietare
• Civil War Diary Quilt

Hand work

• Hawaiian block – finished top. At the moment, it’s hanging around where I can enjoy it. I’m still enjoying it so I’m in no rush to do anything with this project.
• Raining Cats and Dogs – I continue to work a bit on this every Sunday. I wish I had the time to do a bit of quilting every day as I need the practice. It’s been a long time since I’ve hand quilted and I’m slowly starting to get back in the groove. I forgot how much I like hand quilting.
• Rainbow Garden – I’ve not touched this in about a year. I still haven’t touched it.
• Simple Days BOM – I started this and you can see my update here.
• Halloween quilt – I’ve not touched this in many years. 🙂

Knitting

• My Weasley Sweater – my Q1 goal was to knit the back and I finished that. So I’ve set this aside until Q2.
• 24 days of Christmas Shawl from Jimmy Bean – finished! I am done weaving in the ends, so I need to get this blocked and then do my glamour shots. The weather is turning rainy and overcast this week so I hope I can do this over the weekend.
• Water Lily – finished knitting! I’m working on weaving in the ends during my Thursday knit nights.
• Beanie for Kayla
• Tranquil Mist – This is on my priority knitting project now and I try to do a row every day.
• Orient Express – I work on this one weekly and it’s still small enough that I enjoy it.
• Blue Hat – pulled this out of hibernation, wound the second skein of yarn and have picked this back up for knit nights.

Cross Stitching

• Gamer Nouveau – I haven’t touched this in weeks. I tried to get that one page done and didn’t and now I haven’t touched this. This is why focusing on one project doesn’t work for me because then I tend to not want to touch it for a long time. I’m trying to get over this.
• A Stitch In Time – I am working on this one and I’m trying to get a diagonal done before going back to Gamer.
• Shades of Red
• Autumn Owls
• Titania
• Tsuru kame
• Unicorn

And I realize that I didn’t even mention my to be quilted list… here.

• Staycation – is finished! got this done before February ended!
• Good Fortune
• Glam Clam
• SoCal Quilt Run Area 4 Mystery Quilt from 2012
• SoCal Quilt Run Area 4 Mystery Quilt from 2012
• Provence
• saved top from the august treasure hunt some years ago – I’m calling this my Orange quilt top and since this was at the top of my to be quilted pile, this is the one I’m working on next. I hope to get this finished in March but with 2 workshop classes and a very busy work schedule, I’m not going to be upset if I can’t finish it. I just want to be sure to work on it every weekend to help push me forward on getting this done!!!

I hope this isn’t so boring for you as it’s simply a short (but very long) list to quickly refer to everything I’m working on.

Happy Crafting!

Melanie