December 2017 recap...

...lots of baking and a little crafting.

Finished:

• 12/23 Christmas Baking
  • Fruitcakes: 4 small bundt, 7 mini-loaves, and 6 cup-sized
  • Cookies: 747
  • Biscotti: 319
  • Amaretto Nuts: 3.5 lbs
  • Grand Marnier Nuts: 2.5 lbs.
  • Chile-Lime Nuts: 2.63 lbs
  • Chocolate Bark: 5.5 lbs
  • Macadamia-Lime Fudge: 1 lb
• 12/23 Bath bombs, shower melts, bath salts (spa products)
• 12/29 Phat Fiber box, Indian Wedding (spinning) [Ravelry] 
• Books:
  1. Rise of a Phoenix, Shannon Mayer
  2. Chasing Darkness, Laken Cane
  3. Unbreakable, Laken Cane
  4. Unpredictable, Laken Cane
  5. Fool's Gold Christmas, Susan Mallery
  6. Bayou Born, Hailey Edwards
  7. The Splendor Falls, Susanna Kearsley
  8. Map of the Heart, Susan Wiggs
  9. The Black Book, James Patterson
  10. Harbinger Bend, Laken Cane

Started:

• 12/29 Denali handspun (spinning) [Ravelry]

Works In Progress:

1. 4-shaft sampler (weaving) [Ravelry]
2. All That Glitters Christmas quilt (quilting)
3. Attic Windows quilt for me (quilting)
4. Charred Teal Shawl (knitting) [Ravelry] 
5. Christmas 9-patch Pillow (cross stitch)
6. Mermaid of the Pearls (cross stitch)  
7. Mother of Dragons shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
8. Rosewood Wrap (weaving) [Ravelry]
9. St. Charles (needlepoint)
10. Valley of the Heart's Delight sampler design (cross stitch)

UFOs/Hibernation:

1. Be My Baby for My Baby (knitting) [Ravelry]
2. Bear Paw pottery (needlepoint)
3. Canto de Sirena shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
4. Celaeno Shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
5. Finishing work
6. Peacock Pomatomus socks (knitting) [Ravelry]
7. Peacock Majesty by Just Nan (cross stitch)
8. Tucson Twilight (needlepoint)