I started this year out with a huge start but a wonderful piece that has been in my stash since the first post I saw. I purchased the fabric (I am not a fan, I knew I should have stuck with something I knew and loved, but I used what I purchased because I didn't want to buy another piece) this is my inner penny pitcher telling me to suck it up..
I know this post is about my WIPS but technically she is my WIP now 😀. I've had this in my stash for a little while. Someone along the way (I think several someones) has enabled me because I've seen her in all her beauty. So of course I purchased her a couple of years ago and jumped on board this year.
The Raven Queen from Mirabilia has been a project I've wanted to start and for some reason she spoke to me this year. New Year New Start in many groups this year and she was the chosen one. In one of the groups the challenge's is to finish her in six months. This is totally doable and she will take some time but I need to put her in rotation often. So first of February she should be up again for a while and I'm sure for some magical stitches too.
Christmas in London was up next, I don't have a rotation except I can't work on things more than 7 days.. I usually do a Monday - Sunday if I feel like I really want to get progress done.. I usually change out sooner because my stitchy bugs usually looses speed about day 5. But I have really wanted to stitch on this one and I've enjoyed the past 7 days with Christmas in London. I lost her for about a year so it was very nice to work on it again.. I used this piece in many stitchy groups. I managed to stitch 2,293 for this Month.. I consider this a huge WIN!!
The next piece up would be Guardians of Notre Dame by Ingleside Imaginariums. This was a SAL in 2018 and as usual I fell behind and didn't finish when everyone else probably did. This happens with every SAL I do.. so lately I've just stopped doing them, but when I saw this one happening I jumped on board and I LOVE this piece. I did manage some major progress on this one this month also. I spent 6 nights stitching on this piece and managed a total of 3,195 stitches.. This piece blew my mind when I just kept going. I am hoping i can do another week like this and I will be close to a finish for sure.
I changed to Santa's Sleigh next from Nora Corbett I got discouraged quickly but managed to stay with it. I frogged most of what I stitched in the beginning.. Now if you read my introduction, you already know I usually fold this neatly up and put it back where it came from.. Especially this time, I was literally one stitch to far off and it ruined the WHOLE sled.. I probably would have put it away but I was working on Semi Sane Stitchers group and it was where someone picked your WIP for you.. and this was the winner so I had to keep moving along.. What I learned is I felt better when I did this because I got it corrected and I made progress so I was super happy about it.. I did feel like I could have done a lot more, but the frog said NO!.. Total stitches for the Sleigh 2066 so not all hope was lost.
This next project I wanted to have finished for 2019 but that didn't happen.. The Frog came at me in full force and I had to tear apart 90% of the top as I had failed to calculate the name right.. I was very upset and I did put this one away for a while until now, this piece really needs to be done. I did manage to finish all the stitches before 2020 but I was way to burned out to even think about doing anything else to it.. I guess this will be a February Finish and hopefully sewn up and on its way to his final home. I did spend about 5 days on this and back stitching was crazy but I managed to get half of it done.
Dasher from Nora Corbett made its new start debut. Now considered a WIP right 😏 I did have a great time with this piece.. I did however have to frog again because this piece was also one spot off and I couldn't fix it until I ripped it out.. dang frog needs to leave me alone next month because I can't handle anymore frogging.. I am loving this piece and like the previous one I am sure I will enjoy it until its over. I don't see this one lasting long either.. I will have to put the order in for his beads shortly I'm sure. Spent 6 days and prob one day frogging but I did managed 1127 stitches to help with my WIPGO board and of course many other stitch groups including Choose my WIP.
Last but not least for sure was my Snowy Owl from Mill Hill.. I've wanted to do this for a long time now and finally pulled it out and worked on it.. This was on my list for 2020 as a focus piece because I have so many larger projects it will be nice to finish a smaller one.. I also needed this for a SAL because it needed to have a button on it.. and the moon is a button. This was an easy 300 stitches, I will be happy to see this piece again and work on it some more.
So the questions this month was what SALs am I participating in different SAL groups.. This month I was in our Magical Stitches group the Wilderness Lodge and there has been so much happening between weekly assignments and monthly extra credit not to mention the insane yearly challenges.. I'm stitching my little heart out for sure.. This group has helped me really complete a lot of things and works really well with my type of changes.. Semi Sane Stitchers was alot of fun this year.. I just joined and really enjoyed January.. We had the Choose my WIP, Serial Stitcher and several others I enjoyed doing.. I've also enjoyed Celtic Stitches, they have some monthly stitchy goals also.. I am probably missing someone but those are the group SAL's I'm in.. As for other SALs well I am trying hard not to join unless I see something I can't live without..
I sure hope everyone had an amazing Stitchy Month and let your needles be swift and your stitches be wonderful.. Have a great month all and hope to see everyone's progress in February.
Happy Stitching Carey
