February Goals - 2024

 Okay, I'm actually getting my goals set up early: 

1) #amibookchallenge - My wheel name picker picked one of my newest acquisitions, KnotMonster Breakfast! - DONE

I made the milk carton! 

2) I also want to make a pattern that I have purchased, but never made... PJ Pals, Charlie Horse got picked. I got the pattern in 2017. It's an adorable horse in unicorn pajamas. 

Pattern Link

Didn't get around to it... so it's getting moved to March. 

3) Monster of the Month - I am designing a monster (I already have the design sketched out) that is pink with green stripes. Once I have it designed, and the pattern typed up, I will make a second one to check my pattern, and eventually put it up on my blog as a free pattern.

Here is version 1.0, along with the sketch I worked from.

4) Scrap Yarn Challenge: my recent yarn gift (here is a video of the unbagging) left me with a big tray of scrap yarn, so one of my goals for February is to use it up! DONE! 

It took hours to untangle and wind this bag! 

The finished scrap yarn tray. The largest cakes were moved to storage bins, so my actual "use this up" tray is about half this size. 

First I made a couple of mushrooms: 

 

 Then a platypus

 

Since there was so much red in the box, I brought a skein of red fun fur from my stash and made an extra furry monster! 

Then it was back to mushrooms... pop mushrooms, a free pattern (Crushy Mushy) by crochet_crochey on Instagram. 

Next up, a pink turtle!

I must have been hungry... I made a Cherry Chip donut! 

Then I played with the dinosaur pattern from the book Tiny Toys to Crochet, and made this dude. I played yarn chicken and lost... so his legs, arms, and tail are a slightly different color! 

I pulled the brightly colored yarns and made a rainbow chameleon: 

He's probably my favorite of the projects I made... 

Then I really burned through a lot of tiny balls of yarn with a scrappy snake. 

Then I pulled up the Mini Monster pattern from my friend Katie at Yarn Society... 

Then I made a chicken... and made her a little carrying pouch with a patch that says "emotional support chicken"

I cut out a leather piece from an old purse, and my husband did the lettering with his wood-burning equipment. 

The yarn supply was getting pretty low, so I made up a few little balls... I will have them on my craft tables for $2 each or 2/$3... I think I have about 10 in stock now.

I thought I was done... but then I found a half-finished turtle. I ran out of green yarn and forgot about it... So I pulled out some more green and finished it up, for project #17: 

5) Artist's Choice Bag - My husband made up bags of yarn for me in coordinating colors, so I will be working on using up one of those bags. Projects will probably be pretty colorful, as I think I'm going with the bag that has orange and purple! 

Project 1 was a hug monster, pattern by Yarn Society

2nd project was Pixie the Robot, a free pattern from Lion Brand yarn

I also used the yarns in another robot, with more colors added: 

6) Mystery Yarn Challenge - I participate in this YouTube challenge hosted by Lori the Armchair Chef. Here's the yarn I got this month: 

The first project I made from the yarn was an airplane from the book Tiny Toys to Crochet.

Then I made an African Flower Turtle (Pattern)

 I ended up making four projects with the yarn.

7) Publish one paid pattern - since I didn't get that done in January... didn't get it done in February, either! 

8) 15 Etsy listings (updated or new listings) - oops, haven't been keeping close track of this one! 

      1. Pop mushroom 2. Chameleon 3. Hug monster 4. African Flower Turtle 5. Chicken 

      6. Jelly Bean Bunnies 7. Planes 8. Robots 

9) Use up 5 yarns from my Ravelry Stash

2/22 update. My progress on my goals has been slow, as I got a big custom order (for a baby blanket). I'm hoping to have that finished this weekend, and do a mad dash to finish up as many of my goals as possible!