Incoherent Scribblings

I almost decided to skip the whole “goal post” thing this month because I already know that between school, work, and my budding social life I didn’t accomplish much in July, but what the heck, let’s see what I didn’t do in July shall we?

1. Pass both of my summer classes with flying colors! - I’m batting a 4.0 so I guess I can say I accomplished this goal.
2. Continue my Sunday SAL with Dawn. -Yep!
3. Participate in the June SAT. - Nope. I had to work that weekend.
4. Work on “Fairy Flora.” - Didn’t even pull her out of the WIP pile.
5. Start “Tapestry Cat.” - It’s kitted up, but that’s it.
6. Start Round 2 of the UFO Robin. - Yep! Almost finished too! See progress picture below.

For August I want to:

1. Post to my blog at least 10 times. (Posts do not necessarily have to be stitching related.)
2. Continue my Sunday SAL with Dawn.
3. Participate in the August SAT.
4. Work on “Fairy Flora.”
5. Start “Tapestry Cat.”
6. Mail Round 2 of the UFO Robin. (Mail date August 15)

Hmm… those goals look suspiciously like my July ones, don’t they?

Well, I turned my calendar page this morning, so I guess that means another month has come and gone. Let’s see how I did with my June goals, shall we?

For June, I hoped to:

1. Continue my Sunday SAL with Dawn. - Not really. I think we SALed one Sunday.
2. Participate in the June SAT. - Yes!
3. Work on “Fairy Flora.” - Not even.
4. Finish “The Bookshelf.” - Yes!
5. Stitch (and finish) one of my ornaments for my 10 Ornies in 500 Days Challenge. - Nope!
6. Post Round 1 of the UFO Robin. (June 15) - Yes!

Because I knew that the second half of June would be busy after I started my classes, I tried to be reasonable when setting my goals. However, I didn’t count on the stitching slump that has been haunting me lately, so I ended up not getting as much done as I could have. Oh well, there is always next month, right?

For July I am keeping my goals relatively simple in recognition of the fact that since my studies come first, I may not get much stitching accomplished.

1. Pass both of my summer classes with flying colors!
2. Continue my Sunday SAL with Dawn.
3. Participate in the June SAT.
4. Work on “Fairy Flora.”
5. Start “Tapestry Cat.”
6. Start Round 2 of the UFO Robin.

Even before I was close to finishing either “Above the Clouds” or “Poet’s Heart” I knew the pieces that were going to fill their rotation spots when I was done. I planned on filling the spot vacated by Confetti with TW’s “Tapestry Cat” and “Poet’s Heart” with “The Bookshelf” by Little House Needleworks.

“Tapestry Cat” is my absolute favorite TW piece and I have been trying to start it for almost two years. In fact, I was so determined to start it that I bought a fat quarter for it shortly after I received the chart and I almost started it two or three times while I was still working on Confetti. However, given the problems I had with Confetti on different occasions, each time I sat down to kit up “Tapestry Cat” I decided that I better wait until I had finished one TW before starting another one.

Well, as we all know, I finally finished “Above the Clouds” a couple of months ago and although I wanted to jump into “Tapestry Cat” right away I thought I should make progress on some other pieces before I did so. I worked on Flo, finished “Poet’s Heart,” and then the other day I decided “Tapestry Cat’s” time had come.

I rummaged through my stash until I found the chart and the fabric. I was so excited that I danced around my dining/cat/craft room singing nonsense to myself as I washed the 28 count antique white Cashel linen and began to iron it in preparation for those long-awaited first stitches.

But then I remembered something.

I remembered using a chunk of the fabric here and there for a couple of smalls because “Tapestry Cat” didn’t need the entire fat quarter and suddenly I wasn’t sure whether or not I had enough fabric to start “Tapestry Cat” after all this time.

So I got out my tape measure and measured.

And then I started “The Bookshelf” by Little House Needleworks.