I don't know why, as I don't do a lot of seasonal crafting and never celebrated Saint Patrick's Day, but last weekend this little Leprechaun Hat called to me, so I sat down and made it.
Sometimes it's nice to just make something on a whim!
We have been celebrating my grandma's 94th birthday this weekend! That is an impressive age and we are all so happy to have her with us in as good health as she is - especially since last year around this time, she wasn't doing toohot. So we celebrated with good food and lots of cake and even more love. Happy birthday, grandma!
Of course me showing my love usually involves some crafting, and so I made her a new pair of wristwarmers out of the yarn left over from my Tsunami socks last year. Here they are (modeled on my own hands) shortly before I gave them to her:
As usual, this is my favourite "Jacoby" pattern by Berocco yarns. Takes just about 30g of sock yarn to make and fits almost every hand, I highly recommend!
This month I picked up Bellatrix by Bella Filipina - in my green conversion as charted by my friend Ashley - for a stitching quest, and I was working towards 70 hours, I realized I never even showed you the 60 hour update! I think I pretty much fell off the blogging weagon at the time that happened. So, for you this will be a big jump of almost 10% - I added the book and candles on Bellas left, made a start on the border, and put a whole lot of stitches into her dress. Still plenty of green to go, though!
After working on this for quite a bit back in January, I picked SAGA up again this month and finished the next ten hours, bringing the total up to 50 hours and 7.62%!
I worked my way down the third arch from the top, and look who showed up - a wise owl and a fun little octopus!
Another month gone, and we are heading firmly into spring now! This week we've been having some of the first actually warm (well. warm for February) and sunny days of the year, and it instantly improved my mood a bunch.
February was a pretty good crafting month for me - you've seen most of my finishes, but I got a couple more posts in the pipeline, two finishes (that are waiting for a group post) and also a some progress shots. With Charming and the ponchos I got to cross off two more WIPs off my list, so (not counting a small knitting WIP I started for break time at work - and I'm not putting that on the official list as I am gong through one or two of these projects a week recently) I am down to 55 WIPs while still chipping away at some of the bigger ones. Pretty happy with my progress so far!
Since I stuck it out and finished two of the projects that came up with my random wheel, I don't have anything else to show, so next up is the question of the month - What stitch-a-longs (SALs) are you participating in this year? I'm only really doing WIPocalyose these months, as all my other usual go-tos seem to be on hiatus. That is fine, though, I enjoy having an extra degree of freedom in my crafting and blogging, and it's nice to not constantly feel guilty for being behind on check-in posts, haha!
March is one of two One-Stitch-a-Day challenges for the year, so I am going to pull out my oldest WIP (the blue table cloth I was talking about last month) to work on. I really want to finish is this year, and didn't realize we only had two challenges instead of the usual four, so I might give it some extra love to at least finish the third side this month. We'll see how it goes!
