December 2018 Projects
The November List
• Complete border for Bananabella's Christmas present
• Ply black alpaca
• Make Draca and Bones' Christmas presents
• Wash brown Shetland fleece lock-by-lock
• Sew wool gauze tunic
• Sew autumn plaid skirt
• Angular animals!
• Prep bigger cotton bed
• Prep flax bed
The body and border of Bananabella's Christmas present is by far the most pressing item on the list now, but I'm sure I'll make progress on several other things at times and in places I can't work on hers.
The black alpaca, for example, ought to be a quick thing to finish.
Sewing-wise, in addition to the wool tunic, I'd like to turn some of the plaid silk I bought years ago into a skirt; probably something relatively simple, pleated into a waistband. Stashbusting and a new holidayish garment! I'm also going to keep hexagons somewhere handy, so I can keep quietly working toward a copy paper box absolutely stuffed with prepped hexies.
Otherwise, Christmas presents proceed apace (if not...quite at fast enough pace...) and the garden needs a little more work before being put to bed for the season, and as I really enjoyed Inktober, I have a list prepped of animals to do up in the angular sketchy style I tried on one of my Inktober doodles. It's a fun exercise, and yet another way to more or less trick myself into using my supplies rather than hoarding them until they're useless anyway.
And I'm going to complete a 10k run! Twice my prior distance, and all I need to do is finish it, whether I end up walking most of it or not. We'll see what my feet have to say about it.
The December List
• Complete border for Bananabella's Christmas present• Tack layers for Bananabella's Christmas present
• Make skirt for Bananabella's Christmas present
• Construct Bananabella's Christmas present
• Ply black alpaca
• Make Draca and Bones' Christmas presents
• Prep bigger cotton bed
• Prep flax bed
• Hexify 4 fat quarters
Successes first! I ran a 10k and it was pretty good, if cold, rainy, and partly-to-blame-for-giving-me-strep. I scored a discount at the local running store for being first in my age group, though, so that was cool, and now I have
I also nailed Mum's and C's presents, which means I have very few things left to prep for this year's holiday shenanigans. This is extremely positive, because:
Bananabella's Christmas present is proving very large but very worth it. Unfortunately for my lists, that means I have no sewing energy for anything else (nor, really, time. This one has a completely inflexible deadline).
I ended up ditching the angular animals about a week in, which I'm sort of okay with and sort of annoyed with myself about. It wasn't being fun, though, and that's the whole point. I should dig out my dip pen and fancy not-parchment to play with, for one of the projects on the horizon.
Meanwhile, there are a few ongoing spinning projects, which I'm still picking away at; remaking the pockets for one of my everyday skirts; and prepping a few fat quarters for rapid hexification when Bananabella's present is done. Seems enough for the moment.
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