January 2018 WIPocalypse Introduction

Hello, All,

I've participated (loosely) in the WIPocalypse since the world was going to end in 2012.

Needless to say, there was no kaboom (sorry Marvin) and I've been stitching on.  I've been pretty bad about updating because it always seems that my stitching year is spent doing some Super Secret Project (SSP) for either my sister's wedding or my now year old niece.  I'm sure as she gets older and can ask for things to be done I will be side tracked, but until then, I stitch....FOR ME!!!!

This year I have five goals for the 2018 WIPocalypse.

1.  Stitch From Stash

     I took count of my stash and it is scary.  I won't give actual numbers here, but let's just say that I am on my way to opening up a stitching store.  Sigh.  Anyway, to keep the beast in check, I've joined the Facebook group and am going to keep a budget.  However, any items bought for gifts (patterns mostly) do not count against my SFS budget.  I will try to use fabric and floss from my stash for gifts as much as I can.

2.  Work Towards Finshing WIPS

      Again, I took count of my stash and I have twenty-one patterns STARTED and fourteen kitted up and ready to go.  I have created a page showing these thirty-five (sigh, 35) projects but will also list them below.  My plan is to work on each project for 20 hours and then move on.  I think I will set the rule of working on each project, with the exception of our wedding sampler, for 20 hours before touching it again in the course of the year.

Started:

Bent Creek:

      Photobooth Frank N Boo

      The Haunted House

Dimensions:

     Siberian Snuggle

Heaven and Earth Designs:

      Christmas Animals

      Mishra

      Peacock Garden

Lizzie Kate:

      Spooked

Mirabilia:

      Dressmaker's Daughter

      September Sapphire Fairy

Needle Bling Designs:

      Countdown to Christmas

Nouveau Encore Designs:

      S Wedding Sampler

Pine Mountain Designs:

      Fang Tastic

      Jingle Typography

      Spring Typography

      Spring Typography Pillow

      Summer Typography

Stoney Creek Collection:

      Autumn Bell Pull

      Halloween Village Afghan

      Pattern of the Month Series - Halloween (PM901-904)

      Rest in Pieces - Current piece being worked

Victoria Sampler:

     Stitching Witches

  

Kitted:

Amy Bruecken Designs:

     Got Candy

     Winifred

     Witchy Poo

     Woneta

Bent Creek:

     Snow Globe Mantle

Gigi R Designs:

     Les Belles Lettres de Gigi - K

Janlynn:

      Family Reunion

Ink Circles:

     Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

     Wings and Things Mandala

Lizzie Kate:

       Very Scary

Nora Corbett:

       Faerie Summer Love

Sam Sarah Studio:

      Something Wicked

Stoney Creek Collection:

      Christmas Village Afghan

      Happy Hootin' Halloween

Here is where I am after about 12 hours on Rest in Pieces.  Keep in mind that this is a WIP and had been worked on before.

3.  Finish Our Wedding Sampler

     I have already put in a week of a thread a day and twenty hours on our wedding sampler.  The design is from Nouveau Encore Designs and has been personalized with our initials and wedding date.  I am fortunate that six of the lovely ladies I stitch with on Thursday and Saturday are each doing one motif in the design.  I've also convinced my husband to put in at least two stiches on the wedding ring motifs.  :)  My goal is to have it finished for our first anniversary.  Here is the status of our sampler.

4.  Keep Up On My Thread A Day

     I never thought that doing one thread a day would make any progress on a project but I've discovered that I was very wrong.  Here are the projects that I have finished as a thread a day.  Rosewood Manor's Season of the Trees, started 09.01.14 and finished 06.09.15. (Sorry for the wrinkles).

Ink Circle's Cirque des Carreaux, started 08.31.16 and finished 11.18.17

That brings us to my current thread a day project.  It is the Temperature Block Sampler by Stitchnmomma.  I am creating a pillow with a single block with the high temperature of every day of 2017 being a square of stitches.  January 1, 2017 is a single stitch in the middle of the block.  I ma stitching this with half crosses on 36 ct white evenweave over one.  I started on 11.29.17 and am slightly behind but will catch up.

5.  Keep Up With my Cut a Bitch SAL
     I was gifted a copy of Jack the Stitcher (can be found on Etsy) Please Grant me the Serenity and a few of my Thursday night stitchers and I created a SAL.  We all were allowed to work the border before we officially started on January 4th and we'll only work on it on Thursday nights.  My progress after the border and the first night, along with the design are below.  If you are on Instagram, you can follow all three of our progress at #cutabitchsal.

I am going to try and be better about updates and posting.  I've put the posting dates in my dayrunner so I'm hoping my Virgo mind will be pushed into updating.  Until the end of the month, thanks for stopping by and happy stitching!!!!

December 2017 WIPocalypse Update

Hello All!!!!

I know that I haven't posted in almost 18 months but that doesn't mean that I wasn't stitching.  I think it was shortly after my last post that I found out I was going to be an AUNT!!!!  Needless to say, I went into baby gift stitching mode since she is the first grandbaby on my side of the family.  I stitched the Just Nan Baby Celebration pattern for my niece.  No photo to show for this unfortunately.

I also stitched Forest Friends from Cross Stitch Crazy.  It only six different animals that I stitched multiple times to create a cute afghan.  Here is the finished project:

Then because she was going to need a stocking for Christmas, but she will also celebrate Hanukkah, I needed to find a stocking that merged both holidays.  I found the perfect stocking but it wasn't cross stitch it was needlepoint.  I've never needlepointed before, but that didn't stop me at all.  I started on 5/20/17 and finished on 11/18/17.  Here is the finished project for my sweet Hazel.

In the last 18 months, I did get some stitching done for myself.  As a thread a day, I finished Ink Circles, A Spirited Mandala with the suggested floss on 32ct overdyed linen in Voodoo.

I also finished a second thread a day, Ink Circles, Cirque des Carreaux on 32ct linen in Vintage Cedar Plank with Threadworx Black Forest.  I started it on 8/31/16 and finished on 11/18/17.

In addition to the stitching, I got engaged, planned a wedding, got married, honeymooned and, oh yeah, started my wedding sampler.  The picture is after one week of thread a day and twenty hours of work.  More on the twenty hours in the next post. :)

I will post my WIPocalypse 2018 opening post later this weekend.  Happy stitching!!!!