So many interesting projects on your list! I hope you post a few of them here so we can cheer along!
I still love TM patches and hooplas. They’re timeless and open to so much variation.
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After a long craft hiatus, I managed a handful of projects this year and am especially happy to have dabbled with weaving and needle felting.
Focuses for 2026:
- Projects that support destashing
- Projects that reduce household spending
- Projects that qualify for Fall Fair entries
- A minimum of ten different mediums
- Learning a new medium
Completed Projects:
- Needle Felting - Workshop Frog (2025 WIP)
- Needle Felting - Mushroom Kit
- Fiber Spinning - Handspun Fibers (2025 WIP)
- Fiber Spinning - Superwash Merino & Silk Blends
- Crochet - Rustic Farmhouse Holiday Gnomes (2025 WIP)
- Paper - Christmas Gift Tags
- Home Renovations/Design - WIP Craft Room Setup
- Quilting - WIP Ode to Gramma B Jean Quilt
- Weaving - “Colour and Weave” Tea Towl Kit
- Weaving - Remake of “Colour and Weave”
- Weaving - Tea Towels for Erin’s “Fruity Wedding”
- Weaving - Tea Towels for Brahmi
- Crochet - Mixed Yarn Basket
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I’ve always resisted joining this craftalong because I didn’t think there was any way I could ever hit 50 projects… but I’m going to give it my best shot to keep myself accountable. Linda, I’m so impressed that this is your 20th year doing this!
My list (subject to change, of course):
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2026 cross-stitched temperature tracker
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Crocheted blanket for the humane society
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Market bag
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“Goose a-laying” ornament from Satsuma Street
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Alter PJ pants for my dad.
Update 2026-01-29…I’m mortified at how long it took me to just sit down at the sewing machine and snug up the elastic a bit. Seriously, unpick the waistband hem, snip the elastic, overlap the ends and reattach, then re-hem. But they’re done! -
Bah Humbug ornament
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Melty bead kit from the kids’ section
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Scented candles
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Chocolate-Raspberry Dessert Lasagna
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through 50. TBD - making it up as I go along!
Not this year, yet, but I recently packed up my Perler beads and dropped them at Goodwill. Hopefully some crafty kid will hit paydirt! I have a hard time completely abandoning projects because hope springs eternal. Lol.
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Here we go, day one! Happy crafting, all!
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Week 1:Did you finally scrap a WIP or project off your to do list? (3 pts)
I moved a couple really, really old partial projects (like a half-finished scapbook page) into the goodwill pile. There was a time I made physical scrapbook pages. Those days are LONG gone. There was a time I made digital scrapbook pages. Those days also seem to be gone. Now I’m more likely to just make a photobook on Shutterfly. Which I really need to do more of.
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I found so many pages I made during those scrapbooking days. To be honest, they were pretty terrible and “crafty”…some even gaudy! We didn’t have a way to keep photos digitally, so photos of my crafts like Barbie Clothes, really look stupid now. I boxed up all my old scrapbooking albums so my nieces and nephews can deal with them when I am no longer here. Maybe I should just pitch them? 
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I’ll post some of my wedding album scrapbook pages later. They’re a good laugh 
. I really loved the digital pages though. They just take forever.
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I did an album of my Spring Break Trip to Florida when I was in graduate school. It is the reason I could never run for public office. 
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Project #1 - Sewing kit in a cookie tin!
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I have some beloved t-shirts that aren’t even fit for house-only wear anymore. I had tossed around the idea of a “garment journal” to preserve the fronts but have decided to just stick them in my existing journal(s). Probably.
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I’m on the frogging mission.
Have found a new recipient for the lovely yarn I have had for 12+ years and not found the right project for.
I think it should be a law that if you craft, you MUST have crafty friends,
you can give and also receive
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You guys, I just got a message from a magazine published for our neighborhood wanting to feature me in their February issue! They want to do discuss arts and crafts and maybe having me do a regular feature in the magazine! They distribute to a little over 600 homes.
I will contact them Monday after I settle down a bit over the weekend!
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Who knows, they might love those albums!
My grandfather was a furniture maker and he always used to take a picture of the things he’d finished for customers as well as family. He also signed his furniture (wrote down his name in a hidden place, like on the bottom of a drawer or the back of a wardrobe. There’s a whole album full of pictures. I remember way back when everyone in the family made fun of his “vanity”. He’s been gone for more than 20 years, and it’s so nice now that we still have the pictures. He was incredibly productive. And because he signed his work, it has happened a few times that family members have been contacted by old neighbours, second cousins and other people they’d lost touch with, when they no longer needed furniture, to see if we’d want them. I think that’s so nice. Still, I usually forget to “sign” my work 
Today I’ve been working on a project high on the priority list, so this is a good start of the new year!
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That sounds so exciting! Who knows what this might lead to 
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I am excited and will probably talk a bunch about LC and all the people I have met through crafting! We also have a community center where I would love to teach something.
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that’s so exciting!
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This is so cool! I hope you get to do a regular column!
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I have my first finish of 2026:
I wanted to use up the yarn so that it didn’t languish in the yarn cabinet and so I squared it out and now it is a 24x24 inch doll blanket for one of Kidlet’s many, many babies.
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Such pretty colors!
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