WIP Friday - Summertime!

 In the summer I go between melting in a puddle of sweat and having the urge to make ALL THE THINGS! No in-between. Today is an ALL THE THINGS day, probably because this week was overwhelming with a lot of waiting around and not very productive... or maybe it was because I got in almost a full 8 hours of sleep! I'm debating on doing a summer show, mainly on the fence because it's a "thrifted" market, but they will have new things for sale there too. And it's inside, which is a bonus since this week we reached 102 degrees and the weather has been either super hot, or super windy. Sometimes both at the same time...but the majority of my stuff is geared toward cold weather/holiday gifting. Although hooded towels would be handy at the pool, and the flat doodles are great for car trips...and if I could get a stockpile of the H2O bags sewn up, they might be good sellers...I keep talking myself into and out of doing it LOL!

Definitely been needing second coffee lately!

I need to get stitching, so many ideas (and orders) and so little time! Crossing my fingers for a productive weekend, but not holding my breath since every time I get on a roll it seems something comes up and I have to go put out a fire. 

Current Projects and Orders: (in no particular order)  

• Sample Plague doctor NCW
• DW H2O
• 626 Fibi Foldover
• Blue dark maps NCW - Nearly finished!
• Green Dark Maps NCW
• Test bag 
• Strike projects   
• wallet or pouch with scraps
• Supernatural NCW
• SW H20, 2 moondance

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

• HP Nora Handbag
• (4) Moondance

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

• ITA messenger style bag
• Kid H2O to go

Embroidery Orders/Projects: 

• Gingerbread purse - Only the strap left!
• Coffin purse

Craft Show Projects (and RTS items): 

• Embroider peekers on hanging towels - (3/30)both hand and large size
• Doodle Dolls - XL, Regular - make new ones and list on Etsy
• Crochet Cowls (mini button scarves) -  List on Etsy 
• Holiday geeky Stockings (0/10) 
• Lanterns (0/14) - all that are left in my stash!
• Embroidered hand towels (0/25) - I bought a bunch of fluffy style towels, and these could go on Etsy
• Crayon Rolls - (0/50) -  went a bit overboard cutting into my character fabrics, so now I have a stack waiting to be sewn, Plus list up some on etsy!
• Posh books - 0/20 - pretty and character vinyl, plus some more snarky ones that can go on Etsy
• Key fobs (restock and stitch new styles)
• Pocket Pals 
• Ornaments 
• Finger puppets -  Olaf, Darth Vader, Kylo, R2, BB-8, Mandalorian, another princess set or Encanto.
• Moondance Jr Legal notepad covers - Prepped a stack, will sew them up between orders/projects
• Embroidered blankets - Bluey, Yellowstone, Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Gamer, eeyore, piglet, grinch, Gilmore Girls, paw patrol...
• 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  

2024 Goals:

• New Sewing pattern each month:
• January -- Bellago Caddy - well, that didn't happen
• February -- Ninebark Backpack  It's not cheating, that IS a new pattern!
• March -- Dandelion Double Zip - Where did March go?
• April -- Triskele Wallet - Nope.
• May -- Samaren Purse Another new pattern!
• June -- Purse Pal
• July -- Traudy Triangle Bag
• August -- Ymri Skull Wallet
• September -- Hinterland Purse
• October -- Marilyn wallet
• November -- Hiraeth Purse
• December -- Brooklyn Bag
• Finish up at least 1 UFO/WIP a month.  (as I uncover more, I'll add to the list)
• January -- the Factotum that I started maybe 6 or 7 years ago...
• February -- Mini MLP bag I found while cleaning - Just going to add this to March...er, April. I meant May...
• 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 -- pass
• May -- Precut Moondance - 2, Crayon rolls - 2
• June -- ??
• July -- ??
• August -- ??
• September -- ??
• October -- ??
• November -- ??
• December -- ??