WIP Thursday - Downhill Slide to Christmas

Today marks the halfway point of November, then the next thing I know it will be Christmas Eve!  I'm on track to have my orders all finished this month and mailed out, and I'm even fitting in craft show prep when I need a break from the purses!

Mountain of embroidered hoods for towels, they will get finished soon!

My empty embroidery bobbin pile is out of control.  I've been busy!

Right now I'm in the "I still have plenty of time" part of my Holiday crafting.  Soon it will transition to the "GAH, Who needs sleep!" mode.  Which is quickly followed by "Whatever.  Buying presents and just taking anything I have done to craft shows."

This bow is GIANT.  But so adorable!

The current stage has me planning a million things I'd love to make for the shows and presents...which I really need to focus on one type of project a night and see what I can get done.  Tonight should be finishing up towels and beanies (both use my serger) plus orders, Friday will be ALL THE ORDERS and crochet cowls.  15 days until the last craft show, how much can I get done??

Every bow has to be cut out and then glued together. Did I mention I have a LOT of stockpiled uncut stuff? 

Current Projects and Orders:

• Sandra Saddle bag in blue Toothless fabric - So glad to finally have it finished!
• Triple Zip bag - Archer fabric - Embroidery finished, just waiting in line for cutting and sewing.
• Yoshi India Hobo bag - Embroidery finished, cut and ready to sew!
• Mary Poppins Bag/Minky Stitch blanket, Stitch cross body bag (1 order, so need to finish it all together)
• Siren Tote bag - Villains panels
  
• Rugrats Pegasus cross body and matching Professional Pouch 
• NCW - Marauder's map
• Sew Along Factotum- started sewing, but put aside again for orders.
• Sydney with Castles and Disney (probably working on this in December.  Maybe.) 
• Sandra Saddle bag - now thinks she wants a Fortnite purse, which the fabric won't be in for a while... (minion order) 
• Bandana purse - have the materials, just need time to figure it out 

Craft Show Wish list: (Things I'm planning on finishing up before Dec 1, if the stars align and magic happens)

•  Embroidered hooded towels - good Kohl's sale means I stocked up on more towels...so now I need to sew even more!
• Zippered ID pouches - next week will be pouch time, planning on cutting out a stack and going for it assembly line style
• Clematis - 3 cut and ready to sew together
• Crayon rolls - stack cut out and ready to sew, add in a few more of the newer character fabrics like Peppa, more Avengers, Daniel Tiger
• Finger puppets - Daniel Tiger, Sharks, rain forest animals
• bows - stitch out unicorns, princesses, more ponies, wreck it Ralf, etc - going to cut out the stockpile I found first and get them glued!
• Keychains - need more stitched, fortnite for sure, other new ones I recently bought, plus restock the favorites
• Ornaments - finish cutting out the HP ones, stitch more bitten gingerbread men, cut out all the doctor who ones 
• little kid purses - would love to do several Emma and Sweet Pea ones, but will probably run out of time! 
• Crochet cowls - have a few made, need to add buttons, do a few more. 
• Princess aprons - bought panels and just need to sew them up, maybe add a little bling or make them reversible...
• lanterns with custom fabric.  Way prettier than you might imagine.

Current Embroidery Projects:

• Hooded towels - sew up the hoods and see what I have time to add, got some pretty new towel colors to use with them!
• Need to stitch up some sample bunny and bear stuffies using my awesome minky!
• More applique key chains!  
• applique snow globe ornaments

Current Crochet Projects:

• need to make some fur pom poms to go on the textured beanie I did manage to finish...and make a ton more hats!
• Unicorn Weebee - already to the neck!
• Dragon scarf - worked on it a bit, need to finish it up!
• Cotton coffee cup cozies - add buttons and felties, keep making more...
• WeeBee baby doll  - Just needs some face details, and maybe a swimsuit to wear when she's not in her tail...bikini sort of works...made up my own pattern and it's interesting...
• Chunky Unicorn Blanket - almost finished up to the hood, then just ears, horn, and fringe!
• 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, 2 skeins of yarn into this, I must be doing something wrong because it's not THAT big yet and I only have 2 or 3 more skeins to go.
• More crochet cowls to stock up for the fall shows! 
•  C2C for my son, has 10 skeins of yarn already picked out - started and it will be a great project for the winter as soon as it's big enough to keep me warm!

UFO list:  

Fast finishes (hopefully)

• Crayon Rolls - precut and ready to be sewn (18)
• Buttons on cowls
• Embroidered Fox pillow cover - just needs the back cut and sewn!
• 3 clematis clutches - Just need sewn! 
• Mermaid morning glory pouch (half cut out! just for fun project so no rush)

 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 - outside is done, inside is cut and waiting for me to finish
• Sea turtle crochet lovey
• Crochet Worgen 
• Alice in Wonderland Bonnie 
• Tulip pouches - have some cut out (pattern)
• Crochet Giraffe photographer  
• Replace connector and rivets on Alice in Wonderland Daryl's Drive

Want to make - list:

• Hobbit Bibs
• Legendary Quilt pattern pillow
• Pokemon quilts with custom fabric
• Shirts for myself using the custom knit
• Shirts/pants/leggings for my kids with the custom knits
• MORE Purses with the custom knits - try out some of my purchased and never made patterns
• Embroidered kitchen towels
• Peeker hooded towels  
• Giant vintage star quilts - Star Wars and Princesses
• zip around crayon rolls 
• custom knit leggings - Harry Potter marauder's map, maybe some 'exercise' ones?  
• Tote bags using my coffee panels - India Swoon Pattern or Siren Tote?
• Baby quilt - Jungle Path pattern
• Ruched Shirt
• Baby mermaid gown
• snuggle/lap quilts using reading quotes and flannel backs
• French Terry PJ shorts for one kid (and me)
• hoodie for me - Fall is just around the corner!