January Stitching Round Up & February Goals

I had a great January, though mostly because I picked projects that were close to being finished. The rate of finishes will slow down significantly for the rest of the year. The good news is that I only have two more projects that I wanted to finish before the end of the year - Middy - and that one could (I hope) be completed by the end of February and - Magicas Puntadas SAL 2011 which is coming out in monthly parts so can't be completed until November.

Under my self-imposed restriction of one start for every two finishes I can add another piece to my rotation once Middy is complete - Companions by Teresa Wentzler is the next piece to be started. Though in practise I haven't started some of the pieces I've added, they've just been tagged on to the bottom of the column of progress bars! At some point I will re-start my rotation and not be working on just one project at a time so they'll all get some attention, but I think that will only happen when there are just 5 or 6 projects on the list.

A round up of my 8 finishes:
Bride's Tree Ornament #1
Blackwork Chessboard
Debbie Bliss Knitted Bunny Toy
Emperor Penguins
February Friendship Exchange
Funky Sox
Autumn Sox
Herbie the Hermit Crab

I also finished Part 1 of the Magicas Puntadas SAL 2011

My goals for February:
Finish Bride's Tree Ornament #2
Finish Magicas Puntadas SAL Part 2
Finish Midsummer Night's Fairy

An update on Middy

I haven't stitched on this piece since midsummer last year. Here's a couple of pics to show where I've gotten to. I hope she'll be finished in February but there's still a ton of beads to put on her. I'm suffering my way through a bad cold at the moment so stitching is going quite slowly.

The linen I'm using has become very creased so I'm hoping it will smooth out when I press her at the end.

Herbie!

I won some vouchers at work when I won employee of the month and I spent my £10 on book vouchers. One of the books I purchased was Amigurumi Knits by Hansi Singh. I've now completed my first project from this book, Herbie the Hermit Crab. He isn't called Herbie in the book but I had to give him a name.

He isn't perfect, but I love him and he's going to go into work to be my desk buddy.

Socking it to ya!

The second pair of socks is finished, here being modelled by Alan. My 7th finish of the year and I'm now able to start a new project. Only 16 WIPs remaining...

My next focus project is Herbie the Hermit Crab - another knitting project.

January Stitch-a-thon Day 4

A bumper 2055 stitches today and I'm onto the heel flap. This sock might yet be finished by the end of the Stitchathon.