December 2024 Furtle - Fettle Those Finishes Update

December 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!

Continuing weekly stats here for possibly linking up once a month with Kate at Life In Pieces. My 2024 goal was to stitch at least 15-minutes 50% of the days in the year, same as 2021, 2022 and 2023. Now, I no longer have this goal since I've got an almost 5-month old puppy. I want as much time with him to enjoy our time together.

Week 48: 5 of 7 = 71 %

25 minutes/day average across 7-days

Week 49: 3 of 7 = 43 %

24 minutes/day average across 7-days

Week 50: 6 of 7 = 86 %

43 minutes/day average across 7-days

Week 51: 3 of 7 = 43 %

22 minutes/day average across 7-days

Week 52: 6 of 7 = 86 %

70 minutes/day average across 2-days

Week 53: 2 of 2 = 100 %

63 minutes/day average across 2-days

December 21 of 31 = 68 %
2024: 316 of 366 = 86%

December continued to be all about the Puppy and treating the Dog's wounded tail (puppy bit when too excited) and our family! Sewing was on the back burner to play and enjoy this time of growth for us. Fitting in a few minutes of sewing does help me keep sane so I am trying to put a few minutes in. For 2025, I'll be removing the 15-minute minimum as sometimes I only have 5-minutes and I can make it count!

Focus continued more slowly on my projects planned in 2024 than in my original Furtle post HERE.

Projects Half Done Progress update:

There were 46 projects already started before January 1, 2024. The below screenshot of my projects from the spreadsheet provided (and a little expanded) by QuiltingGail is my 'official' list with reference numbers used throughout the year.

As of December 31st, 20 projects have been completed (Blue Highlight), 2 UFO and 18 new projects. 2 project completed this month (Green Highlight on completion Date), 0 UFO's and 2 new project. 4 projects progressed this month (Pink Highlight), 2 UFO's and 2 new projects.

How did sewing go?

December Projects Completed:

1) Second project from Honeybees Quilt Guild winter holiday workshop, Elfin Magic 2024, "Tree" Mendous Mug Rug is 2024 Project 35 completed in 1-hour and 43-minutes.

2) Third project from Honeybees Quilt Guild winter holiday workshop, Elfin Magic 2024, Japanese Knot Bag is 2024 Project 36 completed in 3-hours and 53-minutes.

December Projects Progressed:

1) Smitten2 BOM through Month 9 (2024 UFO 7) 2nd month 4 Side-Setting Triangle was attached this month. Block 5B assembly was started also.

2) Easy Breezy twin size, Quiltville's 2020 Leader/Ender pattern (2024 UFO 4) - now have 70 blocks of the 180 needed for UFO, 25 kits are at the sewing machine in progress. A tracking spreadsheet has been created for all the elements needed to assemble the top and figured it's 52% complete.