March WIPocalypse

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

I don't really have any difficult pieces to stitch.  Just finding the time is the most difficult part.

Here is what I stitched on this month:

 Working on the 4th owl face.

Jolly Snowman I worked on this one quite a few times this month.

 

Suncatchers worked on filling in background to try and get page 1 finished.

Queen of the Sea finished the tail and back to adding more scales.

 

Autumn Sampler still working on the center motif.  Grapes and leaves full of quarter stitches.

Harvest Corn finished the border and starting on the inside.

For the Magazine Monthly Challenge Group they had a pop up event Spring into Action.  You had to put in 500 stitches or 5 hours in your project closest to a finish.  I picked Owl #10 put in 890 stitches and finished it.  I have also added my great niece's name and birthdate.

 

Southern Magnolia I added some more leaves.  Getting ready to move to the next page.

 I finished Country Birds.

 First cat done on Funky Cats.

 QS Porthole of Fantasy working on page 4

 

Added more stitches to Stock Car #3.  This one could be my next finish

Princess & the Dragon.  Finished her body moving up to her head.  I already have my next Wentzler picked out for when this one is finished

 Summer Pig finished his flannel shirt

QS Magic Island I finished page 9.  Did this page in a month and a half.  It went quickly because it was mostly large blocks of background.  Page 10 is a partial page and will also go quickly because it is mostly background.

March was a good stitching month for me.  I got more stitches in than I did in January.  April brings with it the start of out door yard work and camping with 2 trips scheduled.  My smaller projects might get more work on them as they travel better.

 

 

 I found this kit while out at the antique mall.  It had the pattern and fabric.  I pulled my own floss.  It comes with a pretty blue 16ct aida.  The directions call for different number of strands to be used.  One color calls for 9 strands to be used.  I think I will start with 2 strands and if the colors do not show up well move up to 4 strands.  Not sure I could get 9 strands to go thru on 16ct.

 

 

February WIPocalypse

 The WIPocalypse question of the month is: Question of the Month:  What stitch-a-longs (SALs) are you participating in this year?  I am not participating in any SALs this year.  I do enjoy seeing others progress in their SALs.  There is such a wide variety of stitch alongs.

This month I got off to a slow start.  I think I stitched too much in January with all of the cold and snowy weather.  It did warm up a bit in February.  So here is what I stitched on in February:

 

 Stock Car #3.  This one shows the fabric color.  I do need to use magnification which gives me a headache so I only stitch for an hour at a time.  It is nearing the finish line.

 

Country Birds I added more leaves and another bird.  A few more flowers and some backstitching and this one will be done.

Jolly Snowman  I worked on this one quite a bit this month.  It is a focus on a finish project for this year.

 

Owl #10.  My new great niece was born 2/12/26.  I will try to finish this one up in March as I have a feeling another baby announcement is coming.

Princess & the Dragon is also another focus on a finish piece.  It is slow going with blends and quarter stitches.  I am stitching this on 14ct aida and using a sharp needle.

 

Second turtle is done.  working on some background and log so I can move onto the next page.

 Autumn Sampler working on the center motif.  It is slow going stitching the grapes and leaves.  So I took a break and worked on the plaid area next to the cherries.  Backstitching will bring this piece to life.

Funky Cats  I am almost finished with the first Cat.  2 more to go and lots of border.

 Summer Pig I added more stitches.  Still can't tell what it is.

Froggie kit that I bought for  fifty cents was finished.  I popped it into the small plastic frame that came in the kit.  First finish of 2026.

Added stitches to Moonlight Laguna Mermaid

More stitches put into Southern Magnolia

Worked on Harvest Corn

Owl Faces working on Owl 4 hoping to fit Owl 5 on this row

 

Queen of the Sea working on the tail.

And here is the progress on my two full coverage projects:

QS Porthole of Fantasy finished page 3 and got a good start on page 4.  Only six pages in total.  Would be nice to finish this one this year.

 

QS Magic Island finished page 8 and started on page 9.  Lots of background on this page.  This one will be a few more years before it is finished.  Total of 30 pages.

I had 3 projects I did not stitch on this month.  Maybe I will try to work on them in March.

 

January WIPocalypse

This month's WIPocalypse question is: Question of the Month:  Tell us about the oldest WIP you have in your stash.

My oldest wip is now Jolly Snowman by Joan Elliott from Cross Stitch Gold December 2010.  I started stitching this one 12/26/21.  I did work on this one twice this month for BRRINGO.  My goal is to finish it this year.

For BRRINGO I also worked on the following projects:

Stock Car #3 was worked on twice.  I do have to use magnification to stitch on this one.

Harvest Corn was worked on once

Suncatchers was worked on twice.  Second turtle appearing.

 Summer Pig Storybook Animals from Treasures in Needlework Fall 1992 was a new start.  I am just doing the round center piece with the pig in it.  There are 3 more in this series.

And here is my start

 

 Princess & Dragon was worked on twice.  I would also like to finish this one this year.

Gnomes was worked on once

 

Queen of the Sea was worked on once.

Bright Owl Quintet from Cross Stitch n Needlework Sept 2014 was a new start.  This will be my 10th owl.  I am changing up the colors again.  This was a new start and here is my progress.  Baby is due in February.

Owl Faces was worked on twice.  Starting Owl Face #4

 

This is another new start from the leaflet Southern Magnolias.  I am doing Swag II.  The large piece has a huge flower pot.  This smaller piece has all of the beautiful flowers and fruits and no flower pot.  Stitching it on 14ct Cobblestone with called for DMC.  

And here is my start.  Worked on one day.

 

Autumn Sampler for this piece I had to add 6 motifs.  I added 6 acorns.

One of the prompts was stitch on something green or something you had to frog or a frog.  I had this cute frog kit that I picked up for fifty cents.

 And here is my start

For this prompt we were to stitch on a new to us designer that we had not stitched on before.  I have never done a Nora Corbet.  This one was in my pile of kitted projects Moonlight Laguna Mermaid from Cross Stitch & Needlework July 2014.  It does call for some specialty floss but I pulled DMC colors that I hope work  

And here is my progress

 Hello Autumn was worked on once.

Funky Cats was worked on once

 

QS Magic Island was worked on for BRRINGO and it is also my daily afternoon stitch.  Getting close o finishing page 8.

 

QS Porthole of Fantasy I finished page 2 and almost finished page 3 which is a partial page.

 

I also had an unplanned new start on Jan 1.  This one had been kitted and I had wanted to start it last year but never got it started.  It is Country Bird from Cross-Stitch & Needlework Sept 2014.  Here is what it will look like when finished

 

And here is where I got to:

 

I did stitch on this one a few times during the month.  Stitched on 14ct Fiddlers Cloth a scrap I had.

 

I worked on all of my wips except for Homestead Harvest.  I have found a mistake in the large white house.  I thought I could fudge it but that is not working.  I am going to have to frog quite alot.

 

With all of my new starts in January (6) it brings my wip total to 20.  This is the top end of where I like to be.  Maybe I will finish one of the small pieces in February.  I did get alot of stitching done in January.  It was so cold and snowy here that we did not venture outside much.  I just sat and stitched and did 2 jigsaw puzzles.

 

I plan on doing the Magazine Monthly Acrostic in February and they have a pop up challenge  Phebruary Phil In.