August round up
As you can probably tell from my lack of posts and pictures things have been a bit nuts around here this month.
Nuts in a good way … mostly.
Visits from friends, more Melbourne madness and general business are the good parts. Work, thesis stuffs, house inspections and recurring sickness … the not so good bits.
What it has all added up to though is a severe downturn in stitching and blogging time. Even my bramble has suffered for the past week as I made a mistake and need to frog it but haven’t had the time to sit down and track out where the error is. Hopefully I can catch up with it this weekend ‘catch-up’ being a relative term.
So though I know it will be messy lets have a look at those monthly goals for August.
August Stitching Goals
- Finish page 3 of St Nick and start on page 4 nope nope nope – I might have squeezed in 300 stitches 400 tops
- Finish my Lesley name tree before 22nd of August Yes!!! Hooray – completed on the 22nd of Aug
- Work on Rose of Sharon (5 hours) Funnily enough yes.. very early in the month (no picture though)
- 6 Strands into Sea Beacon nope
- Keep up with the daily stitching and weekly updates for Bramble and the Rose not since the mistake
August Knitting Goals
- 20 Rows into my jacket Yepper – I even over achieved (30 rows with another ball started)
- Finish one glove Ummm – No
Final Tally 3/7 – not so grand but better than expected actually, and I had a finish!
My Wip project tally as of the end of august is:
- WIPs: 27
- Finishes This Month: 1
- Finishes since project start: 1
- Items for finishing : 5
- New Starts: 0
- Planned Starts: 3 (35) – There is insanity in the wind but I will post more about it once the actual charts arrive not sure if I even intend to start any of them this year hence the brackets maybe jan 2010.
So now for the far reaching plans for September – This month will be as bad if not worse than August with final printing and binding of the ‘T’ word to be done and two lots of visitors some via Sydney and a certain someone from Cardiff. I still plan to make some time though.
September Goals
Stitching
- Start (and finish) Colin Tree
- 5 hours on Ink Circles Cirque des Circles
- Finish that damn page 3 of St nick
- Order Threads for the A & E starts
- 6 strands in to Sea Beacon
- Catch up and keep up with Bramble
Knitting
- 20 more rows on the jacket
Blogging
- Upload photos from the events in august
- finish half written entries for above events and upload (backdated)
Don’t worry, even if you’re behind you’re still well ahead of me
I’m looking forward to having more free time from next week. Finally! Hope all the thesis stuff is almost done, it feels great to get rid of it that one last time.
And of course you have me racking my brain trying to think of what A & E stands for. And what 35 starts could be. Of course my little brain is overly taxed at the moment, so it ran away in fright. I look forward to hearing more.
Sorry to hear of the frogging. If it helps Drac’s Leaf has been abandoned for the same reason – I’ll be able to face it eventually
If you want help in Sept to get some stitching time in, I can always convince you to chuck a week-long sickie and then you can stitch and chat to your hearts content
Less than 4 weeks to go now *bounce, bounce*
*hugs*