I just made the cats’ day. I am hoping to finish my library cat cross stitch in time, but my next scheduled craft is for Christmas, for decor, not for a gift, and I want it done by the beginning of December. No point in finishing it on the 23rd and almost immediately putting it in the closet for a year. So if the library cat I’m currently doing (picture above a few; correction, below) isn’t finished, it will have to go on hold temporarily.
But what date is the deadline? I can only count on 30-45 minutes of craft time a day, and that’s carved out painstakingly in my schedule. I’d love to expand it but at the moment can’t.
The Christmas rug kit has yarn sorted into little packets, and I know from past projects that a packet a day is a good average. So for a short work break, I took this kit out of the closet and counted packets to get my deadline. The cats, of course, thought all this was Highly Interesting.
There are 67 yarn packets. Well, 69, but four of them are smaller, obviously less of that color needed, and I counted those four as a half each. 67 days. Add 5 days for a margin, because while I personally love doing plans like this and hard scheduling everything, life does tend to throw monkey wrenches in along the way. So 72 days. Work backwards from December. I need to start the rug on September 20th.
There. That was a fun break, both for me and the cats. Still, I hope the cross stitch is done by then.
