Woohoo, what a month!
Honestly, I'm surprised that I started on Christmas presents in January. I FREAKING DID IT.
This chart called for 18 project pieces in January, and I hit 23... not bad!
While I accomplished a lot, I didn't do it evenly.
I may have gotten a little carried away with the orange crochet project at the top (did 2 months' worth) and the purple project on the bottom (did almost 4 months' worth), but it all works out in the end. Now that I've actually started on my big crochet projects and committed some pattern parts to memory, those should go a bit faster.
The brewing projects did not yet begin... but the exotic ingredient only came in the mail this morning. In retrospect it's probably not worth the wait, but waiting and saving $8 through the Amazon subscribe & save program seemed worth it at the time.
Now I just need to find an entire free weekend day to start a beer, and another to start a mead. And, uhhhhhh... maybe another free day to clear off the clutter on the brewing table. I am super excited to get started on the mead, because I got a big fancy bottle corker for my birthday! It'll make the bottling process lightning-fast and easy on the hands. And then the beer is exciting too, it's a modified Viking-style ale.
Lessons learned?
The biggest crafting-related revelation for me from this month is that I need to make crochet more of a nightly habit. I have a tendency to go deeply into one project and want to do it for hours at a time, and then my hands regret it and crafting is off-limits for a few days.
So next month I'd like to see more crochet days, but roughly the same pace of project completion.
And on the positive side, this is the first time that I've ever completed Christmas presents in January! That's definitely a productivity win.
Honestly, I'm surprised that I started on Christmas presents in January. I FREAKING DID IT.
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This chart called for 18 project pieces in January, and I hit 23... not bad!
While I accomplished a lot, I didn't do it evenly.
I may have gotten a little carried away with the orange crochet project at the top (did 2 months' worth) and the purple project on the bottom (did almost 4 months' worth), but it all works out in the end. Now that I've actually started on my big crochet projects and committed some pattern parts to memory, those should go a bit faster.
The brewing projects did not yet begin... but the exotic ingredient only came in the mail this morning. In retrospect it's probably not worth the wait, but waiting and saving $8 through the Amazon subscribe & save program seemed worth it at the time.
Now I just need to find an entire free weekend day to start a beer, and another to start a mead. And, uhhhhhh... maybe another free day to clear off the clutter on the brewing table. I am super excited to get started on the mead, because I got a big fancy bottle corker for my birthday! It'll make the bottling process lightning-fast and easy on the hands. And then the beer is exciting too, it's a modified Viking-style ale.
Lessons learned?
The biggest crafting-related revelation for me from this month is that I need to make crochet more of a nightly habit. I have a tendency to go deeply into one project and want to do it for hours at a time, and then my hands regret it and crafting is off-limits for a few days.
So next month I'd like to see more crochet days, but roughly the same pace of project completion.
And on the positive side, this is the first time that I've ever completed Christmas presents in January! That's definitely a productivity win.
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