WIPocalypse Check In December 2020

 Well here we are at the end of a surreal year! Stitching is the one thing that has been pretty much as normal for me this year, I haven’t had any more or less time to stitch and I’m pretty happy with the progress that I’ve made. 

I started out the year with 33 WIPs/UFOs. In 2020 I finished 12 of these, and made some good progress on Canadian Beauty, which is really the only larger WIP I’ve worked on during the year. 

I’ve also made a few new starts. Most of these were smaller projects such as cards that I’ve also finished but I do have 3 to add to my WIP list:

- Winter Animals SAL by four boys and a NL girl

The bear and owl from this were completed and fully finished and will be in my Fully Finished Gallery post next month. The moose is currently being fully finished:

and I’m stitching the bonus pattern with the fox. 

- Jannlynn Vintage Toys Christmas Ornaments (I completed 2 of these but there are another 6 to be done)

- Biscuit coasters cover kit, which currently looks like this:

So I end the year with 24 WIPs, and that finish rate makes me pretty happy.

Canadian beauty went from here 

To here 

I look forward to working on the bottom half in 2021.

Most of the other things I’ve already shown on fully finished posts, or I’m saving them for the next one. But I did want to show off one project here. It’s the project I designed for my secret Santa swap. This is a swap I did every year with a great bunch of friends on Facebook, we first met when we were all planning our weddings and now we chat about our kids and everything else really. When I got Vicky in the draw I was excited to design this, because I know she likes family keepsake ornaments. So here it is:

I had a lot of fun designing and stitching it, and I really would like to find time to design a few of my own projects in 2021. But more on that goal in the next post, which will be the 2021 WIPocalypse goals post.

Fully Finished Gallery December (part 1?)

 I’ve been looking forward to this post as I have a few finishes to share!

The majority are Christmas cards. The first seven come from a set that was in Cross Stitcher (issue 231). I started stitching them years ago, so I’m very happy to check one old project off both the WIPocalypse and fully finished lists! They’ve now all been sent to family. There was an 8th one, and another card I did with a very old piece of stitching that I think I probably did as a teenager, but I forgot to take photos before sending them. I may be able to get photos from the recipients to share later I guess. 

The next one, is the cute dog I shared in my WIPocalypse post - it is also now on the way to its intended recipient. I’m not 100% happy with how I finished it as it was a little rushed so I could send it, I must put more planning into the actual card making part next year. 

My final finish for this post is the ‘Peace on Earth’ SAL  by Joan Elliott. I finished stitching this last year and I really wanted to get it framed in time for this Christmas so I spent some of my birthday money on a frame for it. I haven’t managed to get the border 100% straight so may take it out and have another go at some point. 

I do have a bunch more things I intend to finish off before Christmas so I may do another post before the link up closes, or they may end up getting saved for January. See you all then!

WIPocalypse November

 Another couple of months skipped 😕

Since the last post I have mostly been working on Christmas stitching. I completed the two ornaments (and Lucy’s birthday card) which I put in the last fully finished gallery post, so I won’t  show them again here. I have also been working on some Christmas cards. 

The ones above are from a cover kit, and I’m just starting to stick them all together and finish them. They will need to be done in the next week or so to be sent, so I should be able to show them off in the next fully finished gallery. 

This moose is part of the winter animals SAL. I also stitched the owl, but I’m not sure where I’ve put him!

Then I have been stitching this rather adorable dog for a card for my husband’s aunt and her partner, who are big dog lovers. It’s almost done, just needs a bit more white and some backstitch.

I’m also working on a secret Santa present, which I designed but I can’t show that yet (and I will only show it if I get the recipients permission). 

Now for this months question: 

What new discoveries did you have in the stitching world this year?

I haven’t spent a lot of time searching out new things this year, but I have been looking more at designers I haven’t stitched before on Etsy. The only one I have started is the Winter animals SAL from fourboysandanlgirl, but I’ve also bought a couple of patterns from other designers to try out next year.