The plan for today is to spend some time in my craft room!

Last’s weeks task and accomplishments:

• Quilting –
  1. Secret Project: hand bind 1 side of my secret project – DONE
  2. Raining Cats and Dogs – hand quilt once this week – NOT DONE
  3. A Rainbow Garden – hand applique on Sunday – DONE
  4. Civil War Diary Quilt – do a block – NOT DONE
• Knitting –
  1. Kimono – finish the stockinette part of the left sleeve. – NOT DONE BUT I’M HALFWAY THROUGH.  I DIDN’T REALIZE HOW MANY ROWS THE STOCKINETTE PART REALLY WAS.
  2. August Socks – Central Park – finish the toe and weave in the ends. – DONE
  3. Starting Point – I have 10 rows left of the first clue.  I’d like to get these last 10 rows finished this week. – DONE
• Cross Stitch –
  1. Finish Row 11 – DONE
• Bag Making –
  1. Maxwell Bag – wrap the fabric around the handle – IT’S WRAPPED BUT I STILL NEED TO SEW IT SHUT.  IT’S CURRENTLY PINNED.
     

     Final Step – somehow get the cord into the fabric tube

• Clothes Making – figure out where I am in the pajama pants and finish it. – NOT DONE

My List for next week:

1. quilting
   • Secret Project #1 – bind 2nd of 4 sides
   • A Rainbow Garden – Work on this for Slow Stitch Sunday
   • Raining Cats and Dogs – Hand quilt this. My goal for the month is to do all of the cream quilting for the third row.
   • Civil War Diary Quilt – do one block
2. Knitting
   • Kimono sweater – Finish the stockinette part of the left sleeve
   • Starting Point Shawl – knit 2 rows per day
   • Q Train Socks – finish the ribbing and get started on the leg
3. Cross Stitch
   • Mama’s Bukid – finish 2 colorways this week in Row 12
4. Bag Making
   • Maxwell Bag – cover the handles
5. LAFS
   • Pajama Pants

~Happy Crafting!

~Melanie

Happy Monday!

I wasn’t able to get that much done last week.  With the kids going back to school, my system is still just getting used to it and off our summer schedule.

Last’s weeks task and accomplishments:

1. Quilting –
   1. Secret Project: hand bind 1 side of my secret project – NOT DONE
   2. Raining Cats and Dogs – hand quilt once this week – NOT DONE
   3. A Rainbow Garden – hand applique on Sunday – DONE
   4. Civil War Diary Quilt – do a block – NOT DONE
2. Knitting –
   1. Kimono – finish the right sleeve and do 7 sets of right and wrong sides of the left sleeve. – DONE
   2. August Socks – Central Park – finish the foot and have it ready for the toe by the weekend. – DONE
   3. Starting Point – I have 16 rows left of the first clue.  I’d like to get 8 rows finished this week. – NOT DONE but I only missed this by 2 rows.
3. Cross Stitch –
   1. Finish 3 colorways of Row 11 – DONE
4. Bag Making –
   1. Maxwell Bag – (not on my monthly goal list) but I want to get through the next few steps.  I’m taking the next bag class on Saturday so I want to get through the 4 steps the instructor had given me at the last class. – NOT DONE.  I did get through the 3 next steps but I was having such a difficult time with the 4th step that I waited to attend the Saturday bag class to see if there was a better easier way to do it.  Nope there wasn’t but one of the ladies at the shop gave me an idea to try.  Hopefully that works.  If it does, I’ll share it with you.  You can see my struggles here.
5. Clothes Making –
   1. LAFS – figure out what the next step is on my pajama pants and do it. – NOT DONE

My List for next week:

• Quilting –
  1. Secret Project: hand bind 1 side of my secret project
  2. Raining Cats and Dogs – hand quilt once this week
  3. A Rainbow Garden – hand applique on Sunday
  4. Civil War Diary Quilt – do a block
• Knitting –
  1. Kimono – finish the stockinette part of the left sleeve.
  2. August Socks – Central Park – finish the toe and weave in the ends.
  3. Starting Point – I have 10 rows left of the first clue.  I’d like to get these last 10 rows finished this week.
• Cross Stitch –
  1. Finish Row 11
• Bag Making –
  1. Maxwell Bag – wrap the fabric around the handle
     

     Final Step – somehow get the cord into the fabric tube

• Clothes Making – figure out where I am in the pajama pants and finish it.

~Happy Crafting!

~Melanie

It’s Monday!  A great start to a new week.

My Plan Of Action from my last post a couple of weeks ago was on the shorter end because I was going out of town and I knew I wouldn’t have as much crafty time as usual:

1. quilting –
   1. A Rainbow Garden – I was going to take this project with me on my trip but I ended up not doing that.  I felt I had too many projects to bring and didn’t want to pack too much.
2. Knitting –
   1. “Kimono” – My goal was to have the right arm finished and I would have but I forgot that I needed to do a bit of garter stitch at the end. I finished the stockinette portion.
   2. Starting Point Shawl – My goal was to finish clue #1 on the second half.  I didn’t realize while it looked like I was at the end the last portion said to repeat row 2 – 78.  ugh.  So I am in the middle of that repeat.
3. Cross Stitch – My goal was to do 2 threads a week.  I was able to get a bit done and posted an updated picture here. But I wasn’t able to get anything done since then.  I hope to get 3 threads done this week and 3 threads next week to make up for the missed week.
4. Other – I wanted to get the Teflon foot for my machine and I did this!

I was able to work on projects not on my goal list – like my August socks!

For this coming week, here’s my POA:

1. Quilting –
   1. Secret Project: hand bind 1 side of my secret project
   2. Raining Cats and Dogs – hand quilt once this week
   3. A Rainbow Garden – hand applique on Sunday
   4. Civil War Diary Quilt – do a block
2. Knitting –
   1. Kimono – finish the right sleeve and do 7 sets of right and wrong sides of the left sleeve.
   2. August Socks – Central Park – finish the foot and have it ready for the toe by the weekend.
   3. Starting Point – I have 16 rows left of the first clue.  I’d like to get 8 rows finished this week.
3. Cross Stitch –
   1. Finish 3 colorways of Row 11
4. Bag Making –
   1. Maxwell Bag – (not on my monthly goal list) but I want to get through the next few steps.  I’m taking the next bag class on Saturday so I want to get through the 4 steps the instructor had given me at the last class.
5. Clothes Making –
   1. LAFS – figure out what the next step is on my pajama pants and do it.

~Happy Crafting!

~Melanie

POA – Plan of Action for those who didn’t know.

On 8/1, I posted some very ambitious goals for someone who had lost her crafty sewjo.  I’m slowly getting it back.  I’ve moved everything around in my sewing room (post about that coming soon) and revamped it completely.  I found a lot of things that have been waiting for me to get to so taking the time to finish is high on my list.  As I was preparing this post I realized that this will be a short week for me.  I will be out of town Friday – Monday so a lot of things that I normally do on the weekend will not be happening.  🙁   Oh well, here’s my short list this week.

1. quilting –
   1. A Rainbow Garden – I will take this project with me on my trip and start appliquing some of the wool pieces.
2. Knitting –
   1. “Kimono” – I will continue to work on this by doing a right and wrong side each day.  I try to go to my LYS at least once a week for knit night and this is my go-to project.  I would like to have the right arm finished this week.
   2. Starting Point Shawl – Like the Kimono, I’m working a row or two on this each day.  I get tired really easy (probably because I do not sleep enough) so by the end my eyes are drooping.   I’m working on the second half of the shawl for Clue #1 and I’d like to get that done this week.
3. Cross Stitch – work on this weekly.  I believe I’m on Row 10 and I’d like to have Row 10 finished this month. So for this week, I’d like to do my 2 threads that I usually do when I work on this project.  I need to count and see if I’m really on Row 10 cuz it might really be 11 and how many colorways need to be finished before I can move on to the next row.

And because I’m gone this coming weekend, I will not have any time to do anything for my bag making goals or my clothes making goals.  One of my bag making goals was to buy the Teflon foot so I may have some time to go to my Bernina dealer and buy that.

I plan to visit a quilt shop and a yarn shop while traveling so look forward to some enhancements.

~Happy Crafting!

~Melanie