January 2026 Furtle - Fettle Those Finishes Update

January 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 2021-2024 goal was to stitch at least 15-minutes 50% of the days in the year. 2025 and forward, the goal is any number of minutes in a day for 50% of the year since the puppy is still under 2-years old he's a handful and I want as much time with him to enjoy our time together. 

• Week 1: 7 of 7 = 100 %
• 83 minutes/day average across 7-days
• Week 2: 6 of 7 = 86 %
• 85 minutes/day average across 7-days
• Week 3: 7 of 7 = 100 %
• 64 minutes/day average across 7-days
• Week 4: 7 of 7 = 100 %
• 33 minutes/day average across 7-days
• Week 5: 5 of 6 = 83 %
• 24 minutes/day average across 6-days
• January 29 of 31 = 94 %
• 2026: 29 of 31 = 94 %

January has been interesting. For 3 weeks of the month, my work assignment included client deliverables due over the weekends. The great thing about working over the weekends, was earning days off in February. I did take 2 half-days to keep my sanity during the 3 weeks. I learned so much and am doing better with this type of assignment than last September the last time I was on this team. Puppy is growing up and being less destructive. No fun weekend sewing workshops during January. Luckily, the puppy snuggles with me in the extra cold mornings before I have to get up. My husband was amazing with a difficult household project, replacing the track of a pocket door and patching the door that had a crack. "His" door from his music room into a Jack and Jill bathroom slides smoothly where "Her" door from my sewing room into the bathroom has an old track and needs a little muscle. HA!

Sewing continues to be my solace. Focus continues slowly on my projects planned in 2026 see my Furtle planning post HERE.  

Projects Half Done Progress update:

There were 53 projects already started before January 1, 2026 (up from 52 in 2025). 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 January 31st, 3 projects have been completed (Blue Highlight), 1 UFO's and 2 new projects. 3 projects completed in January (Green Highlight on completion Date), 1 UFO's and 2 new projects. 6 projects progressed in January (Pink Highlight), 4 from UFO's and 2 new projects. 

How did sewing go?

January Projects Completed:

1) 2023 Renaissance Ribbons kit for the Patterns By Annie bag using Tula Pink’s Moon Garden fabric line for Zip It Up 1.0 with a few 2.0 tweaks as 2026 UFO 51 now fully completed in 22-hours and 22-minutes. This was also January's One Monthly Goal successfully completed.

2) Two set of charity strips for donation to one of my sewing guilds have been prepared. It was easy to cut by using the June Taylor Shape Cut ruler to quickly make 30 of the 2.5” x 8.5” strips. 2026 Honeybees Charity Strips as 2026 Project 2 completed in 1-hour and 5-minutes.

3) Finished 2 X-blocks for one of my quilt guilds for assembly into the annual Opportunity Quilt, it’s going to be a wonderful collaboration quilt ready for ticket sales by September! 2026 Honeybees Opportunity Quilt Blocks as 2026 Project 3 completed in 2-hour and 18-minutes. 

January Projects Progressed:

1) Moon Garden Smitten2 (2026 UFO 7): Block 6C completed & 6A laid out for assembly. Pink Door Fabrics’ Moon Garden Smitten 2 is 2026 UFO 7, Month 6 in progress for 26-hours and 51-minutes out of 240-hours and 15-minutes on the entire quilt top.

2) About 57% of the pieces/parts have been organized including 106 blocks of 180 assembled. Bonnie Hunter Quiltville 2020 Leader / Ender free pattern, Easy Breezy twin sized quilt is 2026 UFO 4, progressed in more than 25-hours and 2-minutes.

3) Charming Sawtooth small quilt (40" x 40") as 2026 UFO 3 has been pulled out and prepared for the background to be cut.

4) Embroidery 101 Homework to Stitchbook as 2026 UFO 53 has a little hand stitching done.

5) ByAnnie Zip It Up 2.0 small size in Tula Pink Greywork is 2026 Project 4. Annie made one that Tula Pink showed off in one of her Tuesday Tula Talk videos. I bought some Webbing to make the handle when I get there. 

6) 16 blocks for our Quilt Guild annual Block Exchange is due June 2nd. This is currently my focus project and will be the February One Monthly Goal (OMG). All the fabric squares and rectangles have been cut. Sewing to make HSTs and Flying Geese is in progress. The tracker estimates the blocks are 44.4% complete. 2026 Honeybees Exchange Quilt Blocks as 2026 Project 1 progressed in 11-hours and 43-minutes.

January Stats:

• 3 Completed
• 6 Progressed
• 52 UFO's remaining
• 2 2026 started projects remaining

What did you get done in January?

Link-Ups:
* Mini Archie's January 2026 Furtle Around The Blogosphere as #3

* Ms P Designs - January PHD in 2026 as #1

* Life in Pieces - Stitching Stuff Week ? of 2026 as #TBD