February Update

I had a good stitching month in February. 

Mini At the Steps was one of my focus pieces. I stitched on this for 8 days and put in 3424 stitches which took me to 50%

Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo and have started already for March

Fairytale, the HAED 2026 SAL was my other focus piece.  I stitched on it for 7 days and put in 3440 stitches which took me to 12.67%

I made good progress on Cat Nap, finishing the second page I put in 4971 stitches over 7 days,  and im at 8%.

Flirtation remained as my one strand a day project. I put in 2392 stitches and worked on it for 22 days.

I had a new start.  This is Gloria and the Gargoyle,  artist is Alisa Smith Williams, charted by Stitches Sew Beautiful.  I'm doing this as part of their monthly sals. If you meet the minimum number of stitches per week, you get a reward chart.  As I do tent stitches,  the minimum is 500 per week.   I put in 3713 stitches out of 160,000 over 5 days and have a page finish and am at 2.32%

This is what the chart will look like when finished

In total i stitched 15,548 full coverage on 27 days and 2392 on my Long Dog.

I decided to start temperature knitting.  I've heard a lot of people doing temperature stitching, where they assign projects a number from 0 to 9 and when the temperature ends in that number, then they work on that piece.  I've a number of knitting projects that aren't being touched, so I thought this is a good way to get a little progress on them.  When their number comes up, I do half an hour on them.

In February I worked on

Douglas cardigan   8 days

Socks 6 days 

Jaunty shawl 8 days

Cosy blanket 4 days

Jigsaw blanket 1 day

Rain or Shine blanket 1 day

I've decided to change how I do my focus pieces.  I'm not going to continue with Fairytale as a focus.  While there are charts I would like if I complete 6 pages for thr SAL, Stitches Sew Beautiful have a lot of charts I'd rather work on.   At the Steps will remain my focus piece.  However I'll stitch on it each Sunday to get the required number of stitches to finish it in November.  At the moment that is about 800 stitches .  If I don't get all the stitches in on Sunday, I'll continue until I do.  I'll then start rotating projects every 3 or 4 days. Between rotations I'll do 500 stitches on Gloria to meet the Sal requirements,  so that will be a  secondary focus piece.  I'm not entirely sure how many days to stitch on focus pieces, or whether to stitch a certain number of stitches, or even spin a wheel with either the days or number of stitches,  maybe I'll even try applying temperature stitching to it.   I need to ponder on it.  

See you next month.