May Goals
After much contemplating, some calculations, and a small reorganization of my stash, (I think it is librarian-thing… I always reorganize things when I start thinking!) I have come up with my May goals.
First is to continue my “running goal” and stitch a minimum of 90 minutes each day. My calculations indicate that comes out to a minimum of 46.5 stitching hours in May.
Second is to work on one of my WIPs. Luckily, I don’t have too many WIPs (currently three), but they are large and two of them have been a bit neglected lately. As I mentioned yesterday, “Stiefmütterchen” will be put away for a while and “Stitcher’s Sampler” is not really screaming at me at the moment, so I doubt I will work on it in May.
However, “Passing Admirers” is screaming at me. 
In fact, I have already stitched on it for two hours today and hope that I can stitch another hour or so before bed tonight. Since I feel like I might finally get into a stitching groove with this piece, I have decided it will be the one that I build my goals around in May. I would like to stitch on it between 15 and 20 of my 46.5 stitching hours. Currently, I’m not sure if I will do all of the hours in one rotation or divide them up into two. We’ll see.
I also have a round robin piece (my EMS RR) that will need to be posted at the beginning of June. Therefore, my third goal for the month of May is to stitch my EMS RR square. The theme is “Stoney Creek Cats” and I think I have finally decided on which cats to include. Now I just have to make up my mind about which one I want to stitch. I like them all, but am currently torn between stitching a cat with pansies (I know… MORE pansies?!) and one with hummingbirds. The one with hummingbirds is a Siamese cat and I am quite fond of Siamese kitties, so I am leaning a little more toward it than the other at the moment… But I have been known to change my mind occasionally! 
And finally, I will start a new (albeit small) project! And that will be Ellen Maurer-Stroh’s “Kitten Baby.” I have all the materials for it and might actually kit it up. I normally don’t kit things up, but I really want to do this pattern and I feel that if it is all ready to go when I get to that point in my rotation, it will give me an incentive to do it instead of being tempted to start something completely different!
Though I am working on “Passing Admirers” right now, I am not exactly sure in what order I will do all of the things on my goal list. After all, it is a “screaming rotation,” so I guess I will wait and see what calls to me!
