October Review / Furtle
As defined by Mini Archie, ‘Furtling’ means ‘having a rummage, a delve, a look at the contents of something’. So I have furtled around to see what I have been doing this month and now I’m going to furtle around the blogs of anyone else who links up over at Archie the Wonder Dog!
-Janine at Rainbow Hare on 2/28/2019
To socialize with my online crafty friends I'm linking up with Mini-Archie, one of my favorite online personalities, and his person for the monthly progress link-up from
Fettle Those Finishes!
I'm posting my weekly/monthly stats here for linking up once a month with Kate at Life In Pieces. My 2023 goal is to stitch at least 15-minutes 50% of the days in the year, same as 2021 and 2022.
- Week 41: 7 of 7 = 100 %
- 101 minutes/day average across 7-days
- Week 42: 5 of 7 = 71 %
- 81 minutes/day average across 7-days
- Week 43: 7 of 7 = 100 %
- 86 minutes/day average across 7-days
- Week 44: 7 of 7 = 100 %
- 86 minutes/day average across 7-days
- Week 45: 7 of 7 = 100 %
- 82 minutes/day average across 7-days
- Week 46: 2 of 2 = 100 %
- 47 minutes/day average across 2-days
- October 29 of 31 = 94 %
- 2023: 290 of 304 = 95%
October brought in a few stressful weeks of work when one of the Executive Committees for the Project left that company. We had to start all over with people in a decision making position but with no knowledge or experience of the relationship. I was added as Project Manager early this year so felt like I was playing catch-up to get in step with this new set of players.
October was successful on the sewing front. I'm pleased with the amount of commitment to my Quilt Guilds and reducing the pressure for meeting the monthly challenges. I've been able to focus more on the projects I wanted for the last several months.
In the area of health, my digestive system has strengthened after I started using
Ellie Phillips Complete Mouthcare System. It seems like using her system to change the pH and bacteria lifecycle in my mouth has rebalanced the load on the digestive system. I'll continue using both her products (Gum/Mints) and 2x/day mouth cleaning program. Access to the program is free, but specified for US products. She has suggestions for
finding non-US products. I continue receiving so much benefit by daily using the stretching protocol for focusing on Facia rather than muscles. This
YouTube by an Olympic coach has reduced my hip, knee and foot facia pain just by stretching 15-20 minutes/day. Also following the Menopause Reset by Dr. Mindy Pelz with fasting is going so much better. Husband and I have also added homemade fermented dairy (yogurt) with 3 different strains suggested by Dr. William Davis in his book
Super Gut. We are both feeling much better.
I am so lucky that I spent at least 15-minutes sewing all but 2-days in October. How did sewing go?
October Projects Completed:
1) Aneela Hoey's Large Size Boxy Clear Pouch, 2023 UFO 40 was completed in 11-hours and 45-minutes. More details about this October finish on the One Monthly Goal Completion Post.
2 & 3) Inspired by the Tula Pink Parisville Deja Vu for the Boxy Clear pouch, I also made Lazy Girl Designs' Perfect Pouches in sizes Large and Medium to go with the Small one completed in June, 2023 Projects 50 and 51.
4) A secret Quilt Guild donation quilt block to be added to blocks by other guild members. Cannot share any photos of 2023 Project 39 was completed in 4-hours and 40-minutes.
5) For my second Quilt Guild there was a similar reason donation quilt block to assemble a quilt made by our members. Cannot share any photos of 2023 Project 54 completed in 3-hours and 24-minutes.
October Project Progressed:
1) Pink Door Fabrics' Smitten v2 EPP Block of the Month, Month 4 (2023 Project 26), Block 4A assembly has completed and it is ready to be attached:
2) Fussy Cut Rock Candy (2023 Project #8) with progress in 7-hours and 48-minutes have flimsy, backing and binding prepared. When I complete more of the bags, I will come back and make the quilt sandwich then design the quilting plan.
3) Small Parisville Aneely Hoey Boxy Clear Pouch (2023 Project 52) through the Base step in progress for 3-hours and 44-minutes::
4 & 5) Leader/Ender project was to make more Hospice Pocket Quilts (2023 UFO 48) and special fussy cut Hospice Pocket Quilts (2023 Project 53). Old photo for reference:
6) In Quilt Guild class started Little Wallet pattern by Valori Wells (2023 Project 55) using a Tula Pink Curiouser fabric line on sale at a local quilt shop. No photos yet.
7) Patterns By Annie's Thread Dispenser Small in the flat fold configuration out of Tula Pink's Linework has fabrics selected to make a set with the Piecemaker from ByAnnie's basics free pattern set:
October Stats:
- 5 Completed
- 7 Progressed
- 43 UFO's remaining
- 11 2023 started projects remaining
What did you get done in October?
* Mini Archie's October Furtle Around The Blogosphere as #4
So much progress, so many finishes! Hooray for finishes *waves pompoms* Thanks for Furtling!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I hope work becomes less stressful soon x
Thank you so very much! So nice for a few small projects to keep me motivated this month. What I'm grateful about work is that it's teaching me so very much about myself, my resilience and who I want to be when work gets harder.
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