Stitching Recap For March

I seem to have had a rather productive month in March this year.  I managed to complete five UFOs and three projects that were started this year. My goal this year was to completed twelve UFOs and I have already completed eleven.  I’m pretty happy with that.

Let’s have a look at what I did.

Firstly, I completed the three RSC project sections in the colour red.  I only had to make one crumb block, which speeded things up.

Next, I completed the final two coloured strips for Betty’s rainbow quilts.  They will be delivered to her at Baradine.

My next project was the little quilt in a day to try out a new level of the quilting program on Elly May.

It was then time to work on some hand stitching and I managed to complete the little slow stitching pouch. 

Back to Elly May, I quilted the two bright fish quilts. 

While playing with fish, it was time to prep the remainder of the batik fish blocks to take to Baradine to work on.

I needed more prep to take to Baradine, so cut out the quilt using the solid fat quarters I bought from a market stall late last year.

Back to Elly May, I bit the bullet and quilted my hexy flower quilt.  I’m so happy with how it turned out.

In the background, I had started knitting the second cabled beanie, this time in blue for Mick.  It was finished in the last week of the month.

On a stitching day, when I had nothing ready to work on, I pulled out the donation rug and found yarn to complete the final three squares.  They are now completed up to the last round, which is joined to the rest of the rug as you go.  I have to learn how to do that, so it will be a home job at some time in the near future.  Then it will just be the final border to add to finish it off.

My main monthly goal was to finish the little pouch designed by Anni Downs that was our Scrub Stitchin’ project from 2024.  I kept putting it off, but managed to finish it on the last day of the month.  Phew!

Towards the end of the month I had nothing ready to take to my stitching morning, so started another Corner to Corner rug.  That was opportune, as it was the perfect thing to work on during two Chookshed Zoom mornings last weekend.  It is such a brain dead thing to work on while chatting away.  It will probably be my stitching days project for the next little while.

Also, in the background, I have completed a secret project, which was a lot of fun.  All will be revealed before too long.

And that about sums it up.  Phew.  I don’t think the next month will be quite as productive, but I must say I am really enjoying getting projects finished and working on others.

In all of that, I only managed to empty two spools of thread.

The pretty jar is still looking rather empty.

So, how did I go with my 15 minutes a day?  So, so!

March =  26/31

Year to date =   77/90 = 85.56%

I’m now looking forward to seeing what I can get done in April.