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FYDP Final Roundup

The first quarter of 2014 has drawn to a close, and with it Finish Yer Dang Projects, our challenge to do or dump all those partially completed crafts that have aged to perfection. You can see all of my weekly updates as well as posts about FYDP projects under the tag FYDP.

rainbow soap

I have one last FYDP accomplishment.

  • Made rainbow soap. It may be weird colors that look more like an unappetizing jello mold than soap, but it’s rainbow soap.

We trimmed the edges off after I took this picture, which helped a bit.

Total accomplished projects:

  1. Mending: 7
  2. Non-mend sewing: 5
  3. Elimination: 11
  4. Website updates: 6
  5. Crochet: 3
  6. Other crafts: 1

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FYDP Roundup 12

Counting today, there are six days left in our Finish Yer Dang Projects challenge. I took a bit of a vacation this past week to work on other things (such as sewing monster swimwear), so we’ll see what I can get done in the last week.

There will be one final roundup in April — I’ll do it in a week if all projects for FYDP that I intend to blog have appeared, and otherwise I’ll delay until that’s happened. I hope this was a productive period for you! I am glad to look at my list of totals and see, especially, the high number after “elimination.”

FYDP achieved its main goal: counteract my tendency to just sit on things. While I certainly didn’t finish my list (we’ll discuss that in the final roundup as well), I made a much bigger dent than I would have if left to my own devices.

Totals:

  1. Mending: 7
  2. Non-mend sewing: 5
  3. Elimination: 11
  4. Website updates: 6
  5. Crochet: 3

FYDP Roundup 11

Happy birthday to my sister!

A small number of items this week, but accounting for a lot of work.

  • Finished the Embroidery on Crochet series I’ve been intending for a long time, and with that, the Learn Crochet pages count as “finished.” Of course I will continue to add to and revise them as I find (and create) more resources and learn more about crochet myself, but I’ve met my personal criteria to count the series as finished: the pages are all present, fleshed out, and interlinked, and there are at least two practice patterns available for every skill in the first six lessons. It is now a source for complete instruction in the basics of crochet, and a launch pad for more advanced topics (currently nine of them, plus amigurumi). Huzzah!
     
  • The second project was also a long time coming: finishing and releasing the Big and Little Pi pattern.

Totals:

  1. Mending: 7
  2. Non-mend sewing: 5
  3. Elimination: 11
  4. Website updates: 6
  5. Crochet: 3