November 2023 Furtle - Fettle Those Finishes Update

November 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 45: 7 of 7 = 100 %
• 82 minutes/day average across 7-days
• Week 46: 7 of 7 = 100 %
• 87 minutes/day average across 7-days
• Week 47: 7 of 7 = 100 %
• 138 minutes/day average across 7-days
• Week 48: 7 of 7 = 100 %
• 131 minutes/day average across 7-days
• Week 49: 4 of 4 = 100 %
• 56 minutes/day average across 7-days
• November 30 of 30 = 100 %
• 2023: 320 of 334 = 96%

November continued with an extra load at work. It has become a wonderful challenge experience. I'm growing so very much.   

November continued successfully 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 the days in November. How did sewing go?

November Projects Completed:

1) Donnamarie's Hospice Pocket Quilts, 2023 Project 53, completed as Leader/Enders so no separate time tracking.

2) Patterns By Annie's Thread Dispenser Small flat book style, 2023 Project 56, completed in 5-hours and 33-minutes. As this month's One Monthly Goal there are more details on the project in the completion post here. Thread Dispenser on the left with the inspiration CallMe:

3) First Little Wallet from the JAX MQG class, 2023 Project 55, completed in 2-hours and 43-minutes. 

4) Rosie's Art Studio's Origami Triangle Pouch started in 2015 during Janome Club, 2023 UFO 49.

5) Small Boxy Clear Pouch, 2023 Project 52, completed in 7-hours and 37-minutes.

6) Patterns By Annie's Thread Dispenser Small stand book style, 2023 Project 57 completed in 4-hours and 27-minutes.

7) Guild Donation Christmas Stockings - 2 to stuff with women's personal care items for a Domestic Abuse shelter, 2023 Project 59 completed in 2-hours and 17-minutes

8) Guild Donation Hospice Pocket Quilts, 2023 UFO 48, completed as leader/ender projects in over 9-hours and 6-minutes.

9) Honeybee Guild Christmas Lottery Block, 2023 Project 60 completed in 1-hour and 36-minutes.

10) JAX MQG Guild Holiday Donation/Lottery Blocks, 2023 Project 61 completed in 1-hour and 47-minutes and 1-hour and 55-minutes.

November Project Progressed:

1) Pink Door Fabrics' Smitten v2 EPP Block of the Month, Month 4 (2023 Project 26), Block 4A has been attached to the flimsy:

Block 4B assembly is in progress:

2) Elfin Magic Projects (2023 Project #58) only have one of six projects remaining, the woven bowl which needs to be finished by hand:

3) Easy Breezy twin size - Quiltville 2020 Leader/Ender (2023 UFO 17) is now back to being the Leader/Ender project and several block pieces have been cut and started. A new 4" block has been completed:

4) There were a few session while out that I could work on parts of the Alchemy EPP Quilt (2023 UFO 2); current progress on 1C: 

5) FMQ SkillBuilders 1 & 2 clean-up (2023 UFO 34), made binding:

November Stats:

• 10 Completed
• 5 Progressed
• 42 UFO's remaining
• 8 2023 started projects remaining

What did you get done in November?

Link-Ups:
* Mini Archie's November Furtle Around The Blogosphere as #4

* Life in Pieces - Stitching Stuff Week ? of 2023 as #TBD