12/31/23

 This is my last regular post of 2023 and would you believe there are still WIPs to update.

Friday, the border of Sarah Rickwood met!  I was already on the struggle bus with her but I added a length of the pink of the strawberries in the border and love how it just seems to glow on this fabric!

Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden Mandala came out next to see how far I could get in a day and a bit.  Not bad.  I'm hoping to make more progress yet this afternoon/evening before it gets put away.

I've already taken all the WIPs that had been hanging out for some live and put them away along with the possible new starts.  Then I pulled the WIPs that will get some love every month, some for a 2024 finish, others to move them along for a 2025 finish.

I'll be posting a 2023 review and a 2024 plans post tonight or tomorrow morning along with my planned New Year, New Start.

12/29/23

I didn't finish page 13 of Warrior Alice like I'd wanted but I it a point where I didn't want to work on her any more for the time being.  Since I don't want to burn out on her, I listened.

So what do I stitch next?

I decided a break from the full coverage would probably be a good idea since I'm planning to focus on three more older full coverage charts in 2024 with another two or three coming out every month for 1000 tent stitches or so.

In November Running With Scissors and Needles offered a free download of a sampler for her birthday.  I'd previously ordered the kit so I decided to start her Sarah Rickwood.

She's a lovely long skinny sampler.

12/25/23

 After I finished page 9 of Warrior Alice,  I pulled out Growth Rings.  Sadly I couldn't get into it like I was hoping I would, but I made a little progress. 

A friend suggested I just pull Alice back out and I'm hoping to finish page 13 before I go back to work Thursday. 

Saturday my husband and I went to a local antique mall and I found a couple of samplers I would have loved to pick up and a couple more that were not something I'm interested in but still pretty.

12/19/23

 I almost didn't make it last night.  But here she is with the 2nd row of pages complete.

12/18/23

 After finishing up my Christmas Ornaments, Alice came back out to finish the last page in row two.  I'm not quite there, but maybe tonight.

I'm not sure what will come out next.  Maybe Loara to get started on the next band?  Maybe a new start?

12/15/23

 I've finished up the last of the Christmas ornaments for this year.  These two are for a mother/daughter stitchy duo I'm meeting for a stitchy day tomorrow.

12/11/23

 Master (OOP) from Tilton Crafts is no longer a WIP, but a finish!

Tonight, I'll be working on finishing my last two Christmas ornaments.

12/4/23

 Part 2 of Serenity Harbor,  finished 11/30

Then I started a couple of ornaments that I made into biscornus.  I gave this one to my boss today at lunch.

I've finished the snowflake for another one.  I'm meeting a couple of stitchers for an afternoon later this month so I have a deadline.