May WIPocalypse

 Question of the Month:  How do you personally distinguish between a Work in Progress (WIP) and an Unfinished Object (UFO)

If a project is not in my pile that I pick from to work on regularly and involves a feeling of dread, it is a UFO.  I have all WIPs at this time.  No UFO projects.

This month I worked on:

Autumn Sampler.  I worked on this one 3 times in May.

 

Crane Paradise.  Added 525 more stitches.  I did have to frog quite a bit in the white flower as I kept making counting mistakes.

Dandelion Fairy Kingdom.  I try and stitch on this one every afternoon. But I do find myself falling asleep while I am stitching it.  In between naps I did manage to finish page 22 and started page 23.

Funky Cats.  I worked on this for 2 days. Lots of black stitching.  I did go and buy more black floss as I didn't have any more in my stash.

Gnomes I put 2 days into this one.

Homestead Harvest.  Added 394 more stitches

Hedge Hog kit from Riolos.  Finished the first Hedge Hog and have started on the greenery.  using the acrylic threads in the kit which makes me nervous that I will run out.

I finished Moonlit Owl, a Mill Hill kit on 5/3/24.

Butterfly Fairy Night 241 stitches added. Slowly making progress.

Folk Reindeer added 156 stitches.  This will be my travel project in June.

QS Magic Island by HAED getting closer to a page one finish.

Jolly Snowman added 418 stitches

HC Anderson & Other Fairy Tales SAL by Cloudsfactory.  I finished the May installment which was the Three Little Pigs.  This one seems to take me all month to finish the monthly installment.

Unplug & Go Outside I got to add some different colors.

My husband and I like to go to Antique Malls and Thrift Stores.  I found a few stitchy items:

I found this kit.  The thread colors in the kit look much brighter than the picture

I got this small frog kit for 50 cents and a package of mill hill beads and some other beads.

June will be a busy month, 2 camping trips, and a hiking trip with my sister.  We slow down in July as my husband will have surgery and we will stay home while he recovers.

I had one day of no stitching in May

April WIPocalypse

 WIPocalypse question of the month: Which designers have you discovered lately? Etsy has alot of cute patterns by people I have not heard of.  But I have not bought any as I am on a pattern diet.  So far I have not had the urge to buy anything.  I have plenty of patterns in my stash that I want to stitch.

Here is what I worked on this month as part of the Magazine Monthly Challenge:

Crane Paradise.  I am down to the last 2 pages.  I moved the scroll rods and put in 730 stitches.  This is one I would like to have finished this year.

Folk  Reindeer.  Took this one camping.  3 days of hard rain so I got alot of stitching and reading done.

I put 168 stitches into Moonlit Owl by Mill Hill.  I hope to finish this one in May

Princess & the Dragon was worked on for one day.

Butterfly Fairy Night I worked on twice in April for 401 stitches.   I wanted this one finished this year also  I need to get a move on

Unplug & Go Outside worked on for one day.  It goes pretty fast since I have just been stitching one color.  Getting ready to add another color.

Autumn Sampler 230 more stitches put in

Hello Autumn I have finished the flowers/pumpkins and started on the truck

I also stitched on the following projects:

I worked on the Hedge Hog kit by Riolos with the acrylic yarn.  I finished the face.  It makes me nervous stitching with this floss/yarn.  I am hoping I do not run out.

Sari Doll I finished this one on 4/28/24.

I finished the April installment of the HC Anderson Fairy Tale SAL by Cloudsfactory.

I worked on the Joy Seasonal Heart.

Funky Cats started the ear of the first cat.

QS Magic Island by HAED. 792 more stitches added.

Dandelion Fairy Kingdom is my focus piece and I try to stitch on it every day.  I am close to finishing this page.

In April I stitched 28 out of 30 days.  My stitch count is down as I am spending more time outdoors.