Update:

Rules in reply. c'mon grab a spot.

And prizes,in no particular order!!!
woolie goodies from Katie (Green pepper, tomato and onion)
Appliqued bag from Hastings.
Yummie soap and a washie from Peppermint.
felt color assortment from Starkl



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I've been up in my crafting room for an hour and I've completed NOTHING. I'm spending so much time sorting out what isn't done, what needs to get done, starting something new and deciding what should just get tossed that I have dug myself right into a big ole rut.

Soooo crafter's anonymous is the club and you must have more projects in process than completed, to be a member. LOL, just kidding.

So, how about a 2 week challenge to get as many incomplete projects done as you can?

If there's interest, I'll add a prize or 2 from my woolie food stash.

Katie

i'm up to it, i have about 12 things on the back-burner that i would love to have completed before we move next month!

Well, I have a million things that desperately need to get done...so I will bite- and I have only 1 week to finish cause I am going out of town next week.

Cool, it's nice to have someone else to commiserate, er uh, I mean cheer on together.

Lets start right away. Anyone that wants to join in, grab a spot and post your completions.

For more fun, lets add points. We can alter this of course but to get us rolling:

5 points for each incompleted *item* that you complete. Doll, toy, nature table piece, etc.
7 points for each incomplete *set* thay you complete. Set of beads, costume, etc
3 points for any item or set that you can complete, of which you have not yet started. BUT you have all the materials in your possession right now.
4 points for emptying any container. Basket, ziploc bag or otherwise that does not hold a specific project.

and the negative.........
take off 1 point for each craft supply you purchase or acquire in the game time.

Contest/challenge duration, 3 weeks. I'm adding extra time for those not quite ready and to get us over the 4th of July:
Today, June 21 until July 12th.

Prizes: to be determined. Depends on how much I get done. LOL.

Charge!!!!

i'm in! (am curling doll hair right now-- this way it won't sit for two weeks until I get around to making a doll lol.)
-H

I'll take a spot! :thumbsup:

I have quite a few things almost done and halfway done, and I needed a kick in the booty.

6/23
+5 completed swan from FeltCraft book

6/24
+5 completed mama duck from FeltCraft book

6/25
+10 completed 2 ducklings from FeltCraft book
+7 for finishing mama and ducklings set

6/26
+6 completed two scrapbook pages
-1 purchased paint marker

6/27
+5 completed butterfly doll for nature table

6/28
+5 completed dog from FeltCraft book

7/11
+3 butterfly for Peppermint
+3 Bellephron bendy for Duncan
-2 for paint markers bought

7/12
+5 finally finished the very first bendy I ever wrapped! (that was :cough: 1.5yrs ago!)
+5 finished funny looking sheep ufo

total = 56pts

stash??? I guess my stuff sent out letters about what a great place my desk is to live :juggle:

my UFO's that I know of so I can keep track & does all of this count. Do we each need to contribute a "prize" ?
-taggie blankets (with ribbon that just moved in.)
-needle felted stuff
-felt animals
-scrapbook pages
-woolyarn to koolaid dye
-tshirts to tye dye
-paint bellycastfrom last pregnancy
-go and get die cuts made at educational resources(from my paper)
-help kids make stickers from computer
-make solarveil hat
-finish fabric bowl.
-finish making soaps into shapes
-finish smocking Julianna's Easter dress.

Kathy :-)

21st
I finished Dh's father's day gift. It was a sign for his "Daddy's restaraunt" which always opens when he cooks for the kids. It turned out really nice. 5 pts

I finished 2 scrap book speads- 4 pages. 6 pts.

Running total= 11 pts.

3 mermaids got their heads and final touches this afternoon-- am SOOO close to emptying a container!

15 pts

-H

Originally posted by mom2JandJ
Do we each need to contribute a "prize" ?


No, not unless you want to. :)

This is for fun but I thought I'd throw in a prize or 2 to help us get moving. LOL. It's so hard to get in the craft room when the lawn needs mowing, the weeds need pulling, the kids need swimming........

:p

Katie

Hey NO FAIR!!! I'm 1500 miles away from my huge pile of UFOs:) I guess I'll do what I can between the 8th and and 12th...but we'll have to play again soon!

j

Had a question-- how much of an item can be sewn and still count as a craft (aka do bags count)?

3 fabric origami folded and stitched from fabric that had been cut and starched and sitting for 3 weeks

15 pts
Running total: 30 pts

Oh-- wanted to add to the prizes. Will toss in an appliqued bag
-H

Hastings, I added your prize in the op. Thanks mama!!!

Guess I should reserve my own spot, so this is it.

6/22
7 Completed one wool food set
7 salvaged a set of silks.

7/3
30 completed 6 nature table mats

7/8
7 Baking set

running total
51

OH me meee...

Tonight 6/23 I dyed 2 shirts wahooo with stuff I bought earlier and just have not gotten around to dying them yet.. Oh and I bet I can find the other one wahoo do these count?????
If so is it 5 for each shirt..
if so then today 10 pts.

hmm I will add a prize too. I think we all should that would be cool... I will add a bar of my yummie soap.. and a washie..

Thanks Peppermint, I added your prize to the op.

Hastings, I think any amount of sewing is fine...we're easy around here and if it gets you charged up, at the points. LOL.

Anyone else can jump in whenever they want too. The more the merrier. :)

Katie

Going to try to hold myself accountable here:

~finish morning glory flower child'
~finish knitting soap sack (learning to knit with 5 dpn)
~finish waldorf doll that was supposed to be daniel's third birthday present (he'll be 4 in september)

~amey

started and finished a merfamily. So thats 3 each and another 3 since they're a set.
12pts

Running total 42pts

arg, i am going to have to drop out, i am on bedrest for a bit and while i hope to work on many projects i have no idea how often i will be able to get on the computer :(
you guys have a great time and i definitely want to be on the next one!

8 sets of hedgehogs, and 1 barrette. The hedge hogs were new, but I didn't have to buy the materials, the barrette used ribbon and stars that I had ready to go.
29 pts

Running total: 71 pts

6/26 and 27

17 sets of hedgehogs (51)
1 set of rose petal beads (3 pts& 80 beads--yeah!)
1 rosary (3 pts)
1 container emptied (4pts)

nothing previously started, but no new supplies aquired

running total 132 pts

6/28
Finished 3 goddess doll +15
finished phoenix mask +5

running total 152 pts

(am I calculating wrong, or does the fact that dd sleeps 15 hrs a day and I'm an insomniac just give me unfair advantage?)

I'd like to offer an assortment of felt colors as a prize. :)

Just realized I'll be out of town for the last 4 days of the challenge. Guess I better get in gear.
-H

Originally posted by hastings1066ad
Just realized I'll be out of town for the last 4 days of the challenge. Guess I better get in gear.
-H

Mama, as I see it, you're gonna run away with the all the prizes! I can't believe how much you can get done, it's really impressive! :thumbsup:

I've got unfair advantage-- dd is one very small and sleepy girl still and dh is currently never home because he's got a summer job in addition to his regular one.. I'm also an insomniac with a history of sewing and crafting under deadline (used to be a theatrical costumer and propmaker for some repertory theatre companies-- + I was raised by my mother who I will never be able to outcraft.) Maybe I'm just making stuff that's too easy?
-H

I think that rosary looked anything but easy. Was it hard to learn how to bend the wire that way? I can do curls and the such, but I've never tried anything more intricate. :)

No-- it was pretty easy. I've been doing tons of spirals and other stuff (although dh has to do my clasps for me' cause his a perfect and mine always come out lopsided.) I love Jane Davis's book Decorative Wirework it's got great ideas and nice beginning instructions. I just did a spiral for a center, and then bent zigzags like I was going to make a star, and then bent them into a circle and squished them to make the sun's rays.
-H

You can't outcraft your mother? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does she not sleep at all? LOL :bow:


Kathy

Originally posted by starkl
I'd like to offer an assortment of felt colors as a prize. :)

Cool, I updated the op.
Thanks Lorraine!

Katie

Originally posted by mom2JandJ
You can't outcraft your mother? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does she not sleep at all? LOL :bow:


Kathy

Not really lol-- she's an incredible painter and tailor, decorates wedding cakes, quilts like a maniac, crochets up a storm, and has the coolest wood shop in her garage where she and my dad have my great- grandfather's lathe and a table saw and scroll saws and routers etc. They just bought a compressor so they could play with nail guns and stuff. I'd be jealous, but normaly all I have to do is ask for something and they'll go create it. (Normally with no cost, my dad is the ultimate scrounger) She's been a sahm for my whole life and always had projects on the side like tailoring, and catering weddings, and is down to just my 24 yo brother at home so she finds herself with nothing but time. I think last year alone she donated 117 baby quilts and 27 afghans to various charities, not to mention the booties and stuff she just gives away to random people (She crocheted an entire layette for my sister's labor nurse's new grandchild) She's just a crafting goddess. I grew up with an eensie bit of a complex since I had slow fine motor development and couldn't use scissors effectively until about 4th grade. My sister's and I normally go up and quilt together once a week, and her grandkids are enjoying playing in grandma's stuff. My 3-4 yo neices and nephews decorated their own animal cakes last week and couldn't have had more fun.

She did foil me today though. I got a couple of huge bags of rose petals-- she deadheaded her rose garden. It's got to be worth at least -5 pts
-H

count me in

Haven't posted in a few days. Have been trying to get sewing projects done so I can leave town-- it's starting to look like I might finish, but it's gonna be close. Can only sew for so long and then my shoulders rebel lol.

Did another set of beads (112 little ones-- these are so relaxing to make.) +3

2 bag sets finished +14

finally finished crocheted layette (it's only been waiting for buttons for 6 mos lol) +7

2 masks +6

1 shell covered picture frame +5

1 container emptied +4

Running total 185

-Hastings

Last 24 hours. :) Turn on the burners.

Katie

Had 10 pts the other day..
things I did last week and this weekend..

7 special towels for hubby to wipe down sheetrock in the new part of the house... Had to be soft.. gee.. had them cut just never finished them.. (7x5 = 35pt)

18 sets of gnomes for the swap.. 3pts each (54pt)

horse and bendy that I had started and shoved in a bag 5x2=10 oh does it count if I emptied the bag ??? 4pts so total 14 if it counts

1 pillow case 3 pts
1 purse for a swap (5pt)
1 hemp bracelet 3pt
redecorated my nature table with shells from my craft bin does this count?? if so 4 pt for empty container.

bought some beads at joanns 2 bags - 2pts ;-( booo hooo

running total 128- 2 for buying beads (((126)))

I've been trying to catch up. I think I'm down to 5 things on my list of things that were already supposed to be done and are now late. Another day or two and i should be caught up!!!!

2 applique bag sets +6
1 set goddess beads +3
1 set rose petal beads +3
3 wire necklaces +9
earrings +3
bracelet +3
2 merfamilies +6

-2 for thread received
Running total 216 pts

don't know if these make the deadline or not:
6 hairbows +18
needle felted sun and moon +6

more thread -4
felt and roving -4

running total 232 pts

We'll run until midnight since I forgot to specify an ending time. :p

I have to go get my little scrap of notes and figure my own little tally.

Hastings, YOU ROCK!!!

Katie

Okay, I'm a little confused. I was just reading Peppermint's last update...I thought that sewing would be seperate from this, cause if not then I'd have to concede because I've bought tons of fabric recently. :rolleyes:

Oh no you don't. LOL. Remember, this is for fun, first.

Sewing ufos completed count for you. Fabric only counts against you in the fabric stash game. :p

Katie

Oh thank God cause right now I've got so much fabric that I no longer have shelf space to hold it! :p

...and I totally agree that this is for fun! I can't believe my crafting UFO stash is almost gone! Woohoo! :balloons:

Anything I can get done in the summer months feels like a big bonus. I am definately a seasonal sew-er and crafter. I've cleared a lot of projects from my sewing room the last couple of weeks and I'm starting to feel like I can face the fall weather with a clean palette.

Katie

Okie dokie, get your final numbers tallied before 10:00 tomorrow morning and will have prize selection. :)

Way to go everyone.

Katie

Ok, I didn't get done everything I wanted to but I've been packing everyday.

I made 21 4" bendy's
and 1 jewelry box

Totals:
Rebeckak: 11
Branwyn: ? in out? :)
^i^Katie^i^: 51
Hastings: 232
Starkl: 56
Mom2JandJ: ?
Peppermint: 126
Amey: ?
Shannon: 154

Our Champ: Hastings
2nd place: Shannon
3rd Place: Peppermint
4th place: Starkl

So Hastings, pm with your choice of prize then will work our way around the winners circle!! Way to go ladies!

Katie

Woohoo, I made the list! I NEVER make the list! :)

Thanks so much for doign this Katie! Can we do another one in a few months? :thumbsup:

Oh wow I have never made the list either.. cool