Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Mischievous March #1 - Age is Irrelephant

After all the fun, crazy starting challenges last year (You might remember me joining in Naughty November), Rachel and Tiff are bringing some new challenges into play this year - one of them being Mischievous March, again with one start a weekend. And once again, I am trying to balance joining into the fun with not overloading my WIP list!

Week #1 was an easy one for me, though - with House Rules almost done (in fact, spoiler alert, it is done now and waits for a frame) I had room for a new focus project, and there is one I had been planning to make for my best friend's mum's birthday in July! Elephants are her favourite, so this is perfect for me - it's a Wrendale Design by Bothy Threads called 'Age is Irrelephant'. I made a start on Sunday the 7th and already finished my first ten hours over the course of last week:

Progress is a little over the place here - I started in the middle of the fabric, with the tusks, then worked my way up and right and now I'm working down the first elephant. I think this will take about 60 to 70 hours, which should be doable by July if I stick to my usual two-rotations-a-month plan.

This will probably be the biggest start of the month too. I got the 2nd and 3rd weekend all planned out (the 2nd is already started, of course), and they are both projects I should be able to finish right away. For the last weekend, I'm still debating how sensible or how fun I'll going to be!

4 comments:

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

Oh this is going to be a fun piece! Keep it away from my starts, elephants are scared of mice LOL

Pamela said...

What a great name for this!

Susan said...

Very nice start and good for you on keeping your WIP balance. I am trying very hard to follow your example, but I want to start ALL the charts right now.

Rachel said...

OK, so I'm only 9 months late commenting, but thank you for joining in with the first week of Mischievous March! I am a massive fan of Hannah Dale, so absolutely love this new start. Great progress for one week too. :)