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.

August WIPocalypse

 Question of the Month:  Do you belong to any stitching groups or guilds (either in person or virtual)? If so, tell us about them.

I belong to Hoosier Stitchers on line and they have monthly meet ups but they are too far from my home to attend.  I also belong to Facebook groups - Full Coverage Fanatics and Magazine Monthly Challenge.  I participate in different stitching challenges in both groups.  Of course I also participate in WIPocalypse.  I have been participating since 2012.

Here is what I worked on this month:

Crane Paradise.  I added 590 more stitches.  I have now taken it off the scroll rods so I can stitch on the bottom.  I will go back to using my hoop.  I want to really work on this one alot in the remaining months of 2024 to hopefully get it finished.

HC Anderson Fairy Tale SAL.  I finished the August installment - the Emperors New Clothes.

Hedge Hog Kit.  Working on the greenery.  I enjoy working on this one.  I just worry I will run out of the acrylic threads.

Joy Seasonal  Heart.  I left off the word border and finished this one on 8/9/24

Folk Reindeer.  I think I have all of the reindeer stitched.  I just need to do the border and backstitching.

Butterfly Fairy Night.  More stitches added.  I will have to fudge the arm as I got off on the lower butterfly wing.  Now I am on track and doing ok stitching on the evenweave I just have to make alot of adjustments to make up for prior stitching issues.

Spent some time on Autumn Sampler.

Bright Owl Quintet.  This is Owl #7.  I started it on 8/13/24.  I stitch one of these every time a new great niece or nephew is added to the family.  I attended my first gender reveal party this month and I will have a new great nephew in December.  I also found out that another great niece or nephew is due in April of 2025.  So once I finish this one I will start on the next one.

Unplug and Go Outside.  I am almost done with page one.

Gnomes.  I worked on this one 3 times this month.

Jolly Snowman by Joan Elliott.  Added 203 stitches

Funky Cats.  Lots of block stitching in this one.  321 stitches added.

Homestead Harvest.  I worked on this one for 2 days.  I am thinking about just doing the farmhouse panel and leaving off the bottom quilts etc.  I was drawn to this one because the farmhouse reminds me of my grandparents farmhouse.

QS Magic Island I am working on page 2.  I hope to put this one on the scroll rods in 2025 once I finish Dandelion Fairy Kingdom.

Dandelion Fairy Kingdom  I made good progress on page 24 my last full page.  I work on this one almost every day during the day.  My other projects I stitch on at night in bed while watching tv.

August was a hot month with no camping.  So I did spend alot of time stitching and made good progres on my projects.

September I will be participating on ABCingo with the Magazine Monthly Challenge group.  I have twelve different projects on my  board.  We are also back to camping this month as my husband has recovered from surgery. We have 2 camping trips planned.

July WIPocalypse

 Question of the Month:  Which of your current WIPs do you consider your most difficult piece to stitch?

Butterfly Fairy Night is the difficult piece for me because it is on evenweave.  Early on I got off and now I am trying to make it all match up.  I did stitch on this piece this month.  Here it is:

 

I took part in Tour de France thru Full Coverage Fanatics.  I used Dandelion Fairy Kingdom.  This month I put in a total of 4,758 stitches.  I finished page 23 and started on page 24.  Page 23 had a large block of color that I saved for the Tour de France event.  Page 24 is my last full page.  After page 24 I have 6 partial pages to finish this project.

 

I also stitched on the following projects as part of the Magazine Monthly Acrostic Challenge:

Unplug & Go Outside I put in an additional 529 stitches

Jolly Snowman I also worked on this one for Christmas in July.  877 stitches added.

Princess & Dragon by Teresa Wentzler added 549 stitches

Autumn Sampler 409 stitches added

Crane Paradise added 522 stitches

I also stitched on the following projects:

H C Anderson Fairy Tales SAL I finished the July part.  It was a much smaller part and I got it finished early in the month this time.

Joy Seasonal Heart added 667 stitches

QS Magic Island I finished page 1 and started on page 2.

Hedge Hog Kit from Riolos.  I have been working on the greenery around the first hedge hog. 396 stitches added.

Funky Cats  This one has large blocks of color and does move pretty fast.  515 stitches added.

Homestead Harvest I finished page 1 and started on page 4

July was a good stitching month.  I only missed 2 days of stitching.  Plans for August - stitch the August section of HC Anderson SAL, work on the August Acrostic and keep pushing on Dandelion Fairy Kingdom.