December WIPocalypse

 Recap your accomplishments for the year! (Your finishes, your final before/after photos, etc).

 

I started 2024 with 14 wips.  I had 8 new starts and 9 finishes.  Here are my finishes for 2024:

Gathering Pinecones.  This was my oldest WIP started 9/8/2001.  It languished because I had trouble with the specialty stitches.  Finished in February.

 

Give Thanks to God Sampler.  I finished this one in March

What a Hoot Owl Teapot.  Finished in February

Sari Doll was finished in April

Moonlit Owl Mill Hill Kit was finished in May

Joy Seasonal Heart was finished in August

HC Anderson Fairy Tale SAL.  I kept up with the monthly installments and finished this one on 12/7/24

Owl #7.  I changed up the colors on this one myself.  Finished it 12/11/24.  I will be stitching 2 more in 2025 as 2 more Great nieces/nephews are due in 2025.

 

Folk Reindeer was my last finish of 2024 finished on 12/20/24

 

In 2024 I started QS Magic Island by HAED.  I finished 2 pages this year. One of the fairy's faces is starting to show up.

This is what it will look like when it is finished.

Dandelion Fairy Kingdom starting point for 2024.

Dandelion Fairy Kingdom ending photo.  I finished 8 pages in 2024.  I have 4 partial pages left and it will be finished in the first half of 2025

Butterfly Fairy Night starting point for 2024

Butterfly Fairy Night ending point.  I had wanted to finish this one in 2024 but didn't make it.  I did make some good progress adding 3,138 stitches this year.

Crane Paradise starting point for 2024.

Crane Paradise ending point for 2024.  I had wanted to finish this one in 2024.  The bottom section is almost fully covered.  I did add 8,008 stitches in 2024.  Possible finish for 2025?

Jolly Snowman by Joan Elliott starting point for 2024

Jolly Snowman ending point for 2024.  Added 2,711 stitches in 2024

Homestead Harvest starting point for 2024

Homestead Harvest ending point.  2,623 stitches added

Gnomes at the beginning of 2024

Gnomes at the end of 2024 1,114 stitches added

Hello Autumn at the start of 2024.

Hello Autumn at the end of 2024.  1,500 stitches.

Unplug & Go Outside by Emma Congdon a new start for 2024
 

And here is my progress  4,226 stitches. 

 

I finished my December acrostic, the SAL and the other goals I wanted to meet in December by 12/22/24.  So I decided to put aside my daily stitching on my full coverages and work on some other larger/medium projects that needed more progress.  Here are the projects I worked on for the rest of the month during my afternoon and evening stitching times

Hedge Hog Kit by Riolos at the start of 2024

Hedge Hog at the end of 2024.  4,011 stitches added.

Autumn Sampler at the start of 2024

Autumn Sampler at the end of 2024.  4,383 stitches added.

Princess & the Dragon by Teresa Wentzler at the start of 2024

I really enjoyed stitching on this one.  I added 3,351 stitches in 2024

Funky Cats was a new start in 2024.  This is what it will look like when it is finished.

And here is my ending point for 2024.  4,338 stitches added.

Here are my orts for 2024. 

And I always put them in a plastic ornament at the end of the year.  I have quite a collection of these ornaments

2024 was a good stitching year for me.  It was my first full year of retirement and I did get alot of stitching in with a total of 123,660 stitches.

I will start 2025 with 13 wips.