I'm getting better

He's looking more like a Dragon, and I'm remembering to update occasionally... however I've now been on this page for a month, which is bloody awful even by my standards, so I think I need to get a shuffle on with this little dude now and get the page finished!

And now I'm back...

February was a tad busy so I didn't really get much stitching time, but I'm back now, and so is Dragon Rider, and it turns out that I do have more to show that I thought I did, which is nice. Although I am now about to hit confetti so this is probably about to slow down a bit, but at least it shows that I'm still alive & kicking!

He's back!

A page finish means that Dragon Rider it back out, and I've realised that I'm working on his head, all is good in the world. Look at the little cutie! I got all excited this week because I thought I only have 5 pages left, and there was the vaguest of chances that I might finish him this year, I have eight pages left, that isn't going to happen!

First page finish already

We were away last weekend so I didn't get around to posting, but it means that I'm now posting my first page finish of the year, although it may be the least exciting page finish that the work has ever seen. There were about 20 stitches in the top left hand corner of colour, everything else is navy! Be still my beating heart!

I'm moving on to something with colour next!

Review of the Year

It's that time again, time to do the review of the year, by my usual standards I have actually achieved a fair amount, just not necessarily on what I planned to do. Startitis has been an issue this year

Aratama was a new start this year

Cara Mia was a re-start this year, so technically it doesn't count as a new start , and at least I have progressed it past where I was when I realised I needed to restart

 Celera was also a new start

 Started this blanket this year as well, but started and finished, so that's good (especially as it was a gift)

 Before

After: albeit it slightly cut off by the roll of the fabric
Focus piece for 2019

Before

 After, three whole pages, that must me a record on this dude
Focus piece for 2019

This was a 2016 blanket club started this year, I am a little further on with it now, but it's buried so this is the most recent picture I have
Focus piece for 2019

Before 

After, this lovely made it back out into the light for a trip away, she's been feeling unloved for a while now

 Ooops, another new start

Before

After, it's growing, very slowly

Another new start, there's definitely a pattern this year

This was my 2018 New Year New Start!

WALL OF SHAME!

There is a chance that I hadn't realised quite how large the wall of shame was getting, and quite how long it was since I last worked on some things, there are some that I would have sworn that I stitched on last year were 2016 or in at least one case 2015, so that's a little embarrassing!

Resolutions: Reviewing 2018 and planning 2019

So, let's start with the hilarity, how did I do with last year's resolutions?

So, here were my 2018 targets:

Princess Bride x 1 - Done

Dragon Rider x 4 3 pages, so that's pretty good for me

Heather Theuruer x 1 – not charted yet

Ex Machina x 1 nope

Cara Mia x 1 I think what I've done probably adds up to two pages

Cloudsfactory x 1 nope

Heroes and Heroines x 1 nope

Family Values x 1 nope

Ice Queen x 1 nope

Not planned

Hocus Pocus x 1 page

Karen Hallion x 1 page

Aratama x 1 page

Heather x 1 (ish) page

Steampunk bookshelf x 1 page

Cut Thru Castle x 2 pages

Crochet:

2 blankets (I'd like more, but I'm being realistic, I've got 5 in mind) 1 and a bit, also closer than I normally manage

A bit more of the virus shawl - nope

A Whirl shawl/scarf - I've started three different patterns so far, and not liked any of them

Start a toft project nope

Rest of my life:

Yet another attempt at 200 a day -133, possibly my best yet, but still not achieved

Improve my time per mile on my run (I currently sit about 12.30) and try to run more of my route (which will help my average time). nope, it did improve, but then it got worse again due to a lack of will power and then time

Build up (or, you know, start) Geek Girl Yarns. nope - sadly GGY has had to take a back seat as I've gone back to full time and Monday to Friday at work so I don't have the time to dye

So, what overly fantastical ideas shall I come up with for my 2019 targets?

Stitching:

Dragon Rider - 4 pages

Cut Thru's for my Geek (God) Daughters - 4 pages

Ex-Machina - 1 page

Cloudsfactory SAL - 1 page (finish the damn border)

Heroes & Heroines - 1 page

1 new start (yet to be decided), probably a new year start, so I really ought to decide soon - 1 page

Generally try to move stuff along and get over (at least a little bit) my startitus

Crochet and other yarny persuits:

2 blankets

1 toft project

Make something out of something that I've spun

Make my spinning more consistent and least breaky

Life:

Try to hit 200 words a day, try to write more consistently (as in regularly, my writing style isn't good enough to classify as consistent)

Start running again and try to get back to 12.30 miles

Get back into Pole and Flexibilty and actually manage to achieve something, I'm not even that fussy about what.

Try to bring my weight down a bit (although hopefully the two above will achieve that), although within reason I'm not too bothered about weight, more about body shape

Read at least 24 books, reduce the monster 'To Read' heap in our bedroom - we're actually running out of floor space

As I'm now working set hours at work I'm hoping to be able to plan my life a bit more and actually achieve things because of it, but we'll see what happens I guess.

Two weeks

I somehow forgot to post last week, I'm not quite sure how that happened, so this week gets two weeks worth of progress, meaning that I instantly get to show of a page finish, along with a (tiny) bit of progress across the entire top row of colours. I've added one colour across the entire row of pages and then finished one page off completely. Considering few colours there are in this with it being monochrome (I think only 18, but I've already put it away so I can't check) I can't believe how smoothly the colours are blending in that first little swirl and flower on the right side. So it's tucked away, something with colour has now come out to play.