October WIPocalypse

 Question of the Month:  How do you organize your WIPs and stash?

I keep all of my WIPs next to my bed as I stitch at night in bed.  They are in ziplock bags.  Some are stored in a Stitching with the Housewives bag and some in a basket.

I do fully kit up each project keeping the floss for that project in the zip lock bag or if there is alot of floss in a bobbin box for that project.

Floss not currently in use for a project is kept in plastic floss boxes on bobbins. I also have two plastic boxes that are normally for scrap booking that I keep all of my kits in.

 

I have two small boxes of fabric and I keep all of my patterns, magazines etc in 3 large tubs in closets.  This picture is of two of the tubs.

Here are the projects I stitched on this month.  No finishes but some are getting closer to being finished.

Butterfly Fairy Night I continue to plug away on this one.

HC Anderson Fairy Tale SAL I finished the October installment.  I will do the back stitching which is minimal when it is all done. Only 2 more parts and this one will be finished.

Folk Reindeer working on the border.

Crane Paradise. The bottom of the project is all flowers and leaves.  This is a dense section.  I did make good progress on it this month.

I started this one too high.  I am going to re-start this one.  I also decided to change up the colors on the owl when I restart it.  The baby is due in December and I like to have these finished so I can give them at Christmas.

 

Autumn Sampler I finished up the Turkey block.

Hello Autumn I worked on this one for the O My Gourd challenge in the Magazine Monthly Challenge group.  I added 836 stitches

Homestead Harvest.  Finished the pumpkin and more work on the grass.  I have decided to just stitch the center panel.  I will have to remove part of the side border when I finish the portion I want to stitch.

Unplug & Go Outside.  Page 1 is finished and I have started on page 2.

Funky Cats.  I enjoy stitching on this one.  The colors are bright and lots of block stitching.

Hedge Hog kit.  More greenery and berries.  I am enjoying working on this one.

I have 2 full coverage projects.  Dandelion Fairy Kingdom I stitch on during the afternoons.  I try and stitch on this one daily except for the weekends.

In October I finished up page 24 and have page 25 more than half done.  This leaves me with 5 partial pages.  I am hoping I have enough fabric left to stitch them.  It might be close and I might have to take it off the scroll rods and use my hoop to finish it.

QS Magic Island is my second full coverage project.  I am halfway done with page 2.

Once Dandelion Fairy Kingdom is done I will make this one my daily stitch and start another full coverage.

October was a good stitching month.  I am now at 100k stitches done for the year.  This is the most I have done in one year and I have two months left.

November will see us spending a week in Florida visiting family.  I will take a few small projects with me.  Probably the Owl and the HC Anderson SAL.

September WIPocalypse

 Question of the Month:  How did you learn to stitch?

My Great Aunt gave me stamped pillow cases and dresser scarves for my 8th birthday.  My Mom showed me what to do and away I went.  I moved onto crewel work after that and finally started counted cross stitch in the 80's.

This month I participated in ABCingo with the Magazine Monthly Cross Stitch Group.  I tried to put projects I wanted to make alot of progress on more than once Crane Paradise was on five times.  

Crane Paradise before I started ABCingo

 

Crane Paradise after 5 days and 1,681 stitches added.

Autumn Sampler worked on for one day.

Dandelion Fairy Kingdom nearing completing page 24

Funky Cat 273 stitches added

Gnomes 148 stitches added

Hedge Hog I worked on this one twice.  

Butterfly Fairy Night.  Worked on twice.

Princess & the Dragon was worked on twice.

QS Magic Island I continue to work on page 2

Jolly Snowman by Joan Elliott was worked on twice

HC Anderson SAL by Cloudsfactory.  Finished the September part.

Unplug &Go Outside added 276 more stitches.

We went camping twice in September.  I took my HC Anderson SAL to work on.