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January was some month. I finished the ATCs in January and Traffic Jam February 1^st. I started a crochet afghan kit.

About three weeks in, I realized everything in process is blue. I like blue, but more variety would make it more interesting. I’ll have to work on that.

I began the Short List many years ago to create short-term goals and a way to focus. I change things up as my interests change.

Project 1 (Original): Study in Stitches. I figured out what bothers me about this project but haven’t decided what to do about it ...

So, while I was visiting Lori in Utah last year, I used her Chunky Thread and made a crochet granny square blanket! When I shared this little project with you on Instagram, so many of you asked for the details and I’m excited to be sharing them with you today. This blanket is a combination of a few of Lori’s tutorials and it works up super quick! Have fun making your own!

Supplies

For this blanket, I wanted something that wasn’t too big but was still cozy enough to cuddle up with while I was stitching. In ...

I decided on going large on the quilt – it just looked too narrow to me.   I have some more fabric I can cut up into squares and I have some fabric in the kit still to go through.  I can purchase a little on line of the fabric line if needed to finish […]

No fabric in or out this week.

The body of the Traffic Jam top is sewn together. It still needs borders to bring it to donation size.

Work on the afghan and Fairy Tales continues. The C2C pattern gets wider with every row until I get to the middle. That makes for slow going as the pattern progresses.

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How did you do this week?

 I put my Arizona quilt blocks together and it is now a completed top--36"square.  Before assembly, I remade a couple of the four patches. If you look closely, you can see that the cacti are now mirror images of the adjacent block in the next quadrant.  Anal, I know, but I didn't like how it looked before. 

In spite of what shows up in the Stash Report, I do have other projects.

Work has turned into something I try not to think about when I’m not there. I’m tired when I come home, and blog posts haven’t happened. That won’t change anytime soon. Posting will just take a little more planning and effort.

When my sister passed in 2023, one of the items in her crochet bag my nephew sent me was an afghan kit. It’s a C2C pattern, which means you start in the corner and crochet outward in a triangle ...

It started with this spring blanket

which was a crochet along on TikTok.

This probably my personal favorite. 

I know often when I take a quilt off of the frame I have one on it immediately but I guess I am moving slower this weekend and I haven’t started to get New York Beauty on the frame – maybe today?  I was working on other things and cutting strips of binding for the […]

Yesterday we didn’t get inches and inches of snow as it really slowed down quickly but as I was writing this last night the weather guy said we could get an inch an hour in the night – so I wonder what I will wake up to!! The birds got fed Before it started I […]

No fabric in or out this week. There were opportunities but no motivation to bring anything home.

The Traffic Jam top is coming along. The goal is to finish it this month.

I finished the crochet throw last week. I’m not sure why the yarn patterned differently on the bottom edge. I didn’t notice until I took the photo.

It’s just big enough to use as a lap throw when I stitch. We’ve had colder weather lately, and the cat and I both enjoy the extra warmth.

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Time to start anew and get busy with finishing projects and starting new.  I very often start New Years Day off by putting away most of the Christmas things and between us we got it almost done.  There is the Christmas quilt to take off the wall and the big wreath off the fireplace.  The […]