2021 Crafty Plans, March Update and April plans

I forgot to post my March Update. And it’s already mid April!

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 – At some point, I started working on this project again. I applique’d a center star and chose my border fabric. I plan to get the border done in April
Bonnie Hunter – Grassy Creek – I finished Clue 4 and I need to get started on Clue 5. See here for the most recent post.
- I haven’t touched this since I posted this. Dancing with the stars jumped the line.
Scrappy Stars Around the Corner – no progress
Dancing with the Stars – I pulled this project out because Linda Ballard will be coming to our guild in 2022 and I want this quilt finished when she comes.
Radiant Jewel – no progress
Gardenvale – no progress
Allietare – no progress
Civil War Diary Quilt – no progress
Judy Niemeyer = Double Wedding Ring quilt – I started this with my Sunday quilty friends in January 2020 at a monthly class at one of our local quilt shops. Then covid happened and the world shut down. I got all the rings done and in October 2020 met with the teacher to help me get to the next step. But I didn’t touch it again until now. In fact, it wasn’t on my list of things I wanted to get done this year. But then the teacher set up a zoom session and suddenly, this is now on the list.

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. I’m a little further along but I haven’t posted about it yet so I that’s something I need to do.
Halloween quilt – I’ve not touched this in many years. 🙂

My Weasley Sweater – my Q1 goal was to knit the back and I finished that. So I’ve set this aside until Q2.
- Now that it’s April, I’ve started working on the front.
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.
- still need to do my glamour shots
Water Lily – finished knitting! I’m working on weaving in the ends during my Thursday knit nights.
- the ends are woven in and I need to do my glamour shots
Beanie for Kayla
Tranquil Mist – Now that it’s April and the Weasley sweater is back on the priority daily list, this project was shifted down to a weekly project to be worked on on Thursday knit night.
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.

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.
- I picked this up again and did about 300 stitches last week.
A Stitch In Time – I am working on this one and I’m trying to get a diagonal done before going back to Gamer.
- I worked on this a few weeks ago and I’ve set it aside for now.
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!!!
- This top is being quilted right now. I plan to be done quilting next week and will work on the binding, label and picture.

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