FYDP Roundup 2

A little less exuberant this week, but I still got some things done. I admit, though, that everything on today’s list was completed in the last 40 hours or so. Good thing I have the potential public shame of this roundup to motivate me!

  1. Behind the scenes, I improved the SEO of the patterns in my store by giving them meta descriptions (this becomes the excerpt/blurb you see on a search engine results listing). Without a meta description, the part of the page below the photos (where I put the details, but not the overview) is what shows up on the search page. Now someone finding one of my patterns through a search will have better information about what it is they’ve found; the meta description is a version of what appears to the right of the photos on the product page.
  2. Less behind the scenes but still online, long ago I had links to pages at Annie’s Attic with brief Quicktime videos of crochet stitches being made. They were linked from my Crochet Reference page and possibly my Learn Crochet series, though probably only before it was expanded from a single page into a set. Annie’s took them down, replacing them with longer YouTube videos, which I found very disappointing. Later on, but still rather a while ago (cough cough), I found the videos still existed at Annie’s online magazine Crochet World, and wrote a note to reinstate the links. Well, that finally happened!
  3. An embroidery project I was maybe 1/3 of the way through was not going well. I dismantled it.
  4. My boot-style slippers each had a split up the back of the lining, and my heel would slide into the bottom of the split instead of fully into the slipper. I stitched them up.

Totals:

  1. Mending: 2
  2. Non-mend sewing: 2
  3. Elimination: 7
  4. Website updates: 2

FYDP Roundup 1

Starting strong with finishing my dang projects! I’ve decided the roundups are only going to contain projects I’ve already blogged or never will blog, so they don’t reference the future. This will necessitate a final roundup after the quarter ends, but that’s okay.

I took care of some low-hanging fruit this week.

  1. Two pairs of boxers for Matt that were done but for the waist and leg openings: finished sewing.
  2. Remnant earmarked for boxers: realized that because of snags, it was not quite enough fabric for boxers; decommissioned and put into the stash.
  3. A bra that rubbed my shoulder blade: trimmed the fabric sticking out past the stitching, and that seems to have fixed it.
  4. Two t-shirts and a sweatshirt waiting on possible refashioning: donated.
  5. A blanket I started crocheting and wasn’t very excited by (yarn choice or stitch pattern): frogged, yarn put away.
  6. A Swiffer Wet Jet pad I was Tunisian-crocheting, but wasn’t thrilled with and probably wasn’t going to use anyway: frogged, yarn put away.

Totals:

  1. Mending: 1
  2. Non-mend sewing: 2
  3. Elimination: 6

Happy New Year!

champagne glasses

2014 it is! This year holds my third blogiversary, a prime number birthday, my second wedding anniversary, and my fourth crochetiversary, in that order. But before any of that, for the first quarter of the year, it’s going to be Finish Yer Dang Projects time here at ReveDreams. I hope you will play along at home in finishing or eliminating all the projects that fill all kinds of crafting space. My list already includes almost 30 items, and that’s without some containers I haven’t inventoried yet. The projects range from mending to design, across a variety of crafts, and even include some computer work. Since today is Wednesday, and in the spirit of Work in Progress Wednesdays, I’ll post a brief synopsis of the week’s progress every Wednesday. Blog posts will continue as usual and include non-FYDP items (including handmade Christmas gifts) so the Wednesday posts will let you know which items are from the “just do this already” list, and list finished projects that didn’t get posts.