Okay so maybe tonight I am in a little bit of an odd mood (or I could just be procrastinating about getting back to that work I don’t want to do).

Sorting out my golas this month has proven to be harder than normal but I think I may have managed to set myself a few little tasks to keep me busy over the next 28 days… But first lets see how I managed in January.

January Goals

1. Finish the left hand side border for the PINN stitch design- I sure did… but then I realised I have to restart because of that silly fabric miscalculation.. Still counting this as goal achieved though
   
2. Start Melita (HAED) and get in at least 500 stitches) YEP! (between 700-800 thanks to more productive than average stitchy day)
3. 5 hours into Rose of Sharon - Yep, although the progress on this seems so slow
4. Start on the HAED SK SAL – Dragon Luck A little late (read that as didn’t participate on the SAL weekend but I did start in January)
5. Start page 4 of St Nick – Can you believe this?? It is another yes! (only about 300 stitches though but still it is a start)

Knitting

1. Try and get a scarf knitted for Adam before he heads back to the US. that gives me less than two weeks o_O - Amazingly I got this done, blocked and the ends woven in as well as finishing an additional knitting project before the end of January
2. Block Sharon’s shawl and  do the finishing for my shrug. Another Yes!! I am seriously on a roll (shh don’t mention the shrug and I won’t)

Can you believe I actually managed pretty much everything I set out to do .. Shh no bursting my bubble by mentioning the pesky sewing up of that shrug… it will happen, just not yet)

Phew no wonder I am tired, that was one seriously productive month. So can we replicate that level of success in February?

February Goals

Stitching

1. 600 stitches into Melita
2. Minimum 5 hours into Rose of Sharon
3. Restart the PINN stitch design and get back to where I was before having to restart.
4. Work on Dragon luck for the SAL
5. 500 stitches into Lost
6. 300 Stitches into St Nick

Knitting:

1. Finish one of my fingerless mitts (both if my scarf yarn is delayed)
2. Start the scarf (given that the yarn arrives before the end of the month)

A little more ambitious this month, especially with it being a smaller month. But I finish up at work in two weeks and I am hoping that will mean a some time for hobbies etc in the evenings after work or at least on the weekends occasionally.

Woops almost forgot my monthly Tallies.

This is 6 months since I started and funnily enough eventhough there have been a number of finishes I am ending with as many wips as I started with o_O.

WIPs: 28
Finishes This Month: 0 (2 knitting)
Finishes since project start: 3 (+4 knitting)
Items for finishing : 6
New Starts: 1
Planned Starts: 2 (+ 1 knitting)

I am going to keep going with this for at least anohter 6 months and see if I can actually get that 28 to something a little more reasonable.