January

A bit belatedly, here's what I intend(ed) to do this month.
As I've mentioned, I hope to get 2 projects done each month. Since I didn't think this through much before the new year, I didn't really have a plan for the first two, so they had to be simple.

1. Project 1: done (Kwik-Sew 3121 layering pullover; used up a piece of boiled wool, and a zipper that happened to match)
2. Project 2: done (Vogue 8347 bag; used up crushed taffeta left over from a dress done last month)
3. Start on February's Project 1: in progress. This is intended to work for the PatternReview "little white dress" contest, more as a side effect than anything. I don't particularly need such a dress, but given that it actually needs to be kind of boring a clean "background" piece, and I have more white fabric in stash than I want, my intention is to use it as a second mockup of a new (dress) fitting shell I'm working on. Well, not necessarily of the fitting shell directly — I'll change it up slightly — but the general fit should be similar. The first mockup is in progress and seems to be going reasonably well. I've drafted it from Müller & Sohn's Kleider und Blusen. More on this later.
4. Think about/ideally decide on February's Project 2. PR has an "inspired by the movies" contest starting up next, but nothing springs to mind as something I'd want to do for that, so I'm probably going to skip it. Maybe I'll sew up some more warm fabric.