This month's question is what is your oldest WIP. My oldest WIP is Gathering Pine Cones which I started in September 2001. I saw this completed at a friend's house and fell in love with it. I immediately went to my LNS bought the pattern and kitted it up. The specialty stitches were more than I could handle. I pushed on with it but hate the way it looks. I did stitch on it this month and put in another 115 stitches. I want to get it finished this year and will change out the rest of the specialty stitches. Here is where I am at now
I participated in Brringo with the Magazine Monthly Challenge group. I stitched on all of my WIPs but one and had 6 new starts. Here are the projects I worked on:
Autumn Sampler. This one got 336 more stitches
Crane Paradise was on my board 3 times for a total of 447 stitches. Hard to see the progress as I worked on white and grey. I want this one finished this year.
Dandelion Fairy Kingdom. I almost finished page 20 which is a partial page. I usually stitch on this one in the afternoons. Hope to finish up this page this week so I can move to the next row.
Folk Reindeer was a new start. This is from Cross Stitch Country Crafts May/June 1988. 290 stitches. I already finished the Folk Santa that goes with this one.
Funky Cats was also a new start from Cross Stitch & Needlework Nov 2014. I have wanted to start this one for a long time. 325 stitches put in
I also made a little more progress on my Hedge Hog Kit
Worked on Hello Autumn twice. This is on 18ct Country Mocha. I am stitching it with 2 strands and wish I would have used 1 strand.
Homestead Harvest was on my Brringo Board 143 stitches
What a Hoot Owl Teapot I finished the cross stitching and have started the backstitching. This one will be finished this year.
For Brringo one of the prompts was to stitch on a monochromatic piece. I did not have any WIPs that fit that so I started Joy Seasonal Heart from Cross Country Stitching June 2011. Being stitched on 18ct white with 1 strand of DMC 4050 full cross.
Butterfly Fairy Night I worked up in the moon. I also want to finish this one this year.
Princess & the Dragon I worked on twice for Brringo.
QS Magic Island by HAED was a new start from Brringo. I also worked on it several more times and got 1,055 stitches. Full Coverages are a long term committment so I do not like having 2 on the go at the same time. This one is 25 pages. I decided to start it now since I have about a year left on Dandelion Fairy Kingdom. I hope to get at least one page finished on this one this year. Stitched on 14ct white aida. 2 strands full cross. It will be big once done.
Sari Doll got 330 more stitches. This is a small one and should be done this year.
Jolly Snowman by Joan Elliott was worked on twice for Brringo
Give Thanks to God Sampler was worked on 3 times for Brringo. I think this one could be finished this year also.
Unplug and Go Outside by Emma Congdon was my last new start for Brringo.
Then I had signed up in December to do the HC Anderson Fairy Tales SAL by Cloudsfactory. I finished part one and hope to keep up with the other parts as they are released the first of each month. This is 1,011 stitches.
January was a good stitching month. Between the cold weather and staying inside and being retired I got a total of 12,202 stitches.
In February I will be doing the February Acrostic with the Magazine Monthly Challenge Group.
