Week 2: What is the absolute ONE project you really want or need to get done in 2026? (3 pts
The HP bookcase quilt
Week 3:Week three question:
Think of a WIP that you have had for some time. What is keeping you from finishing it? Can it be overcome and how (ie. buy more yarn, frog to a certain point, read directions)?
Set of seasonal placemats, a machine that didn’t have a 1/4” seam was not working, situation solved so time to get them done .
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What a fabulous block! Snow globes are quite a popular subject to craft now. I love how you fussy cut the scene perfectly!
I don’t usually get the chance to swap; my crafting “schedule” is generally filled weeks or months in advance. But I decided I could squeeze in participating in the GALentine’s Card swap this year! And I did and it was so fun to make for a swap and it’s killin’ me that I can’t yet post those finished cards and the extra smalls that went with them! Partly, because most of my creative time these days is going to more time consuming projects like refinishing a used desk for TheMisterT and moving/reorganizing my craft space so I’m not getting to post much of anything! Sigh.
I think that posting is the last step to completing a project for me, so these feel incomplete. I don’t even feel like I can put a “thumbnail” on my list here, even though I’m positive no one is looking at my list but me.
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I have to post a thumbnail to feel like I am complete. I don’t think many people go back to lists. It is so exciting when your partner receives and then you can make a complete post and share details.
WK 4: We focused on WIPS these last few weeks just to get some old projects out into the open. Let’s change direction.
Name a new project that you have started , or can’t wait to start that you can complete in a short amount of time. Something that gives almost instant gratification from start to finish. (3 pts for naming, 10 pts for completing).
WK4:
I think one of the kits I have in stash will be my next project. My next knit project will be a long one again so a smaller palate cleanser project will be in order.
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I needed a break from knitting and quilting. A simple dress with no zipper will be fast for me (except, I always tend to underestimate how long something will take, ha ha ha).
A new project also keeps me from focusing on that dang unfinished crochet sweater staring at me…wk 3 nightmare! ha ha
And, then there are these leg warmers that I started last night because I decided I needed black and white legs…
Week 4: Some sort of cowl/balaclava combo. I’m most likely going to make up my own pattern borrowing certain elements from existing free patterns as I go. I want to make it useful for me, so it’ll have a cowl that buttons to close, with a little bit of a dicky extension, and then a hood that will cinch around the face. I haven’t seen any patterns like that, so I’ll figure it out for myself.
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I’ve seen that one! It is a great starter pattern. I want the cowl part to open up because my hair is dumb and gets messed up easily so I want an option that I don’t have to pull over my head. It would be a fairly easy modification I think.
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All my January projects so far seem to be yarn projects. It must be the bitter cold weather!
I want to move on to other things. Quilting projects…yeah, that’s the ticket!
This is how I keep track of how many crafts I have made in a year and can add it to my Winter Letter. I can post a couple months later with a bunch of pics and feel okay about that. Even looking back at the end of 2025, I forgot about some of the crafts I created that year.
Item to finish this year
I have to finish my cross stitch for my husband this year and I have to keep working on it. I didn’t work on it for four or five days and was a little bit lost as to what to do with it.
Why I have so many WIPs
I have a problem? Issue? Flaw? With not finishing items. I get bored, shiny new project comes up, and it goes into the “I’ll finish this after X” I have some ridiculously easy things to do to finish items such as gluing on a magnet. But… It’s some kinda brain thing. Like how strawberry kefir can only go in the pink glasses, it would not be good in my mind to put it in the blue or green glasses. Nothing catastrophic is going to happen, it just doesn’t make sense to me.
Getting through crafting rumination and/or perfectionism
I am able to get around being in a loop about my crafts by asking my husband his thoughts. I point out the flaws and sometimes he offers advice and other times he’s like, “No one will notice that but you.” Then I get to sit with that knowledge and decide if it’s worth it to work more on it or not. If I’m creating and have two choices, I’ll ask my son since he’s usually next door in his room. He has no stake in it and I think he has a good eye, so that takes away pressure.
I enjoy receiving praise for stuff I do, but I act as though it was no big deal or I deflect. Accepting good things and feeling proud instead of continuously criticizing myself is my inner work in progress. From watching my son grow up it isn’t like anything gets easier, it just changes. I also know that things that truly petrified me in my twenties seem very silly to me in my forties. Everything changes. It’s now and not forever. What bothers me today may not tomorrow, or in six months, or ten years. It’ll be something else.
Partly, because most of my creative time these days is going to more time consuming projects like refinishing a used desk for TheMisterT and moving/reorganizing my craft space so I’m not getting to post much of anything! Sigh.
It’s some kinda brain thing. Like how strawberry kefir can only go in the pink glasses, it would not be good in my mind to put it in the blue or green glasses. Nothing catastrophic is going to happen, it just doesn’t make sense to me.
