January 1, 2025

Without even making a plan my crafting year is filling up.

My current Tuesday/Guild project is a mystery. I’ve finished two clues (yes, one of them had two blocks) but I have no idea if this will be the layout. Up to now there has been quite a gap between revealing the clues so in the meantime I’ll continue to work on my Dream Path quilt and my Leader and Ender project – my postage stamp quilt.

It will take a couple more weeks to finish the top of this Thursday project. It looks so simple but I don’t think Gail and I have struggled as much with any other project. When that is done we have a series of hand stitching projects that Gail bought from the internet. We’ve also talked about doing a block once a month, based on patterns and pictures she has found online.

Our Guild’s quilt show is in March and I still have three projects to complete. They are all pieced but need to be sandwiched and quilted. When I’m home I’ll be focusing on them. There is no shortage of UFO’s that I can work on when they are done – both piecing and quilting.

For the rest of the Christmas season I’m going to be working on this cross stitch. I probably won’t get it done but it seems like “the thing” to be doing this time of year. It was a project Mum started and I’ve taken on the finishing of it. I can only take credit for “7 Swans a Swimming” and “8 Maids a Milking”.

Stacia, Deloise and I have already picked a sewing date for January to work on our small projects. I am a bit behind the others with 15 patterns remaining. I missed a few times when I was in treatment and recovery so I got behind. I’ll have to speed things up if I want to complete them all this year.

I will sign up for another 30 books with Goodreads with the intention of surpassing it. Always better to aim low I think. This is the stack of books I’ll be working my way through; I already know there will be library books to add as I’ve been finding lots of titles on Facebook.

I’ve been itching to get back into some knitting or crocheting and have a couple of projects in mind for the yarn I have – another afghan and a wall hanging made from wool I purchased in Donegal.

I have signed myself up for a year-long block of the month; we will meet for a day once a month to get a new pattern (all different trees) and, I’m hoping, to get some hints on what to do with them. I’m excited and nervous at the same time. These are samples of the first two blocks.

What are your plans for the year?