WIP Friday - Spring?

The weather around here is giving me whiplash, we hit 80 one day and had snow the very next day! Now it's back to record highs followed by chilly days, but who knows when the next snowstorm will hit! This is doing a number on my sinuses and allergies -- even my dogs are having allergies. On top of that, there's been an increase in everyday chaos, so I lost the month of March! At this rate, it's going to be November in no time, so probably should get started on some inventory and new things.

Sneak peek of some new fabric coming soon!

I'm mostly caught up on orders, so this is a good time to start some new stuff! Maybe I'll finally get a bunch of the water bottle bags prepped and stitched up...or all the cut and sews I've been collecting...or the 100 crayon rolls I have precut...or....

Yeah, I need to get cracking on the sewing! 

 

Current Projects and Orders: (in no particular order)  

• Sample Plague doctor NCW - I WILL finish it this year!
• NCW - toss maps/black  
• NCW - tan/red dot
• Fabric Strike Bowler Bag 
• Custom blanket 

~~~~~ waiting for preorder fabric, payment, etc~~~~~ 

• (4) Moondance 
• Vinyl bag 

 ~~~~No deadline/stuff for the kids/myself~~~~~

• ITA messenger style bag

Embroidery Orders/Projects: 

• Gingerbread purse - Only the strap left!
• Coffin purse
• Shoe wings
• So many pony ears 

Craft Show Projects (and RTS items): 

• Sleep masks - These are so fun, I want to make a bunch to see if they sell! 
• H2O to go bags - want to make several to take to the boutique for the spring/summer, so nice for outdoor activities! 
• Embroider peekers on towels - hand, hoods, big towels
• Doodle Dolls - XL, Regular - make new ones and list on Etsy
• Crochet Cowls (mini button scarves) -  0/5 - need finished with buttons and ends woven in 
• Holiday geeky Stockings (0/10) 
• Lanterns (0/20) - 
• Embroidered hand towels (0/25)
• Crayon Rolls - (0/50) - finish and list on etsy
• Posh books - (5/50) - pretty and character vinyl, plus some more snarky ones that can go on Etsy
• Key fobs (restock and stitch new styles)
• Pocket Pals and Purse Pals - (0/6)
• Ornaments 
• Finger puppets -   Kylo, R2, Mandalorian, another princess set or Encanto.
• Moondance Jr Legal notepad covers - finish the precut, cut more
• Embroidered blankets -  (0/40) need to restock!
• Mav Packs - I picked up a LOT of kits for these last year, need to start stitching them up!

UFO list: 

Current Crochet UFO's:

• The Child mini version
• baby blanket with Boho style Racoon- 90% done with applique pieces -  need to finally put this together, maybe I'll just put it in a frame!
• Dragon scarf
• Cotton coffee cup cozies - debating doing more of these...
• WeeBee baby doll  - Want to redo the hair, add in face, and a dress
• Chunky Unicorn Blanket 
• C2C (corner to corner) baby doll blanket crochet with some random scarfie yarn - Need to figure out what hook I was using...
• Mermaid tail towel, need to dig this back out, probably going to scrap this one because it needs a lot more yarn and I don't think I can get it anymore

 Fast finishes (hopefully)

• Embroidered MLP tiny bag
• Embroidered Fox pillow cover - just needs the back cut and sewn! - Need to figure out where it got stashed
• Mermaid morning glory pouch (half cut out! just for fun project so no rush)
• Replace connector and rivets on Alice in Wonderland Daryl's Drive

 Ready to go, but will take a bit more effort projects:

• Doctor Who Pick a Pocket - Now that I've made several of these, I should be able to finish this one quickly, if I ever pull it out
• Goldfish Lovey - fish is made, bowl is mostly made, needs put together
• Dragon Lovey - pieces and the blanket done
• Wisteria Wallets - 2 cut and ready to be assembled 
• Bella II in Tula Pink Foxfield - Just needs grommets!
• Sea turtle crochet lovey
• Crochet Worgen 
• Alice in Wonderland Bonnie 
• Tulip pouches - have some cut out (pattern)
• Crochet Giraffe photographer  

2026 Goals:

• New Sewing pattern each month:
• January -- Teeny Trinket Tote, Test pattern
• February -- Test Patterns (3)
• March --  Already did one test pattern, hoping there are more coming!
• April -- 
• May --
• June -- 
• July --  
• August --
• September -- 
• October -- 
• November --
• December -- 
• Finish up at least 1 UFO/WIP a month.  (same as last year, so I should really try to do them finally!)
• January -- Plague doctor NCW, Bella II grommets, hardware on the alice in wonderland bag
• February -- Mini MLP bag I found while cleaning 
• March -- crochet project, I might try to hot glue the pieces of the fox I started forever ago and frame them instead of trying to put them on a blanket.
• April -- Crayon rolls - 2
• May --  
• June -- 
• July -
• August -- ??
• September -- ??
• October --
• November -- ??
• December -- ??