WIPocalypse 2018 - End of Year Review

WIPocalypse is hosted by Measi's Musings

The object of the WIPocalypse is to stitch on projects that you want to complete before the end of the world, or the end of the year - whichever might come first! WIPocalypse is run by Melissa over at Measi's Musings and is now in it's 7th year.  

For 2018 I am going to try and work on 18 projects (ie 18 in 2018!).  The full list of my projects can be found on my WIPocalypse 2018 page.

Snail's pace is definitely about right for me..... 2018 turned out to be an interesting year - lots of stitching completed but not a lot of blogging.... 2019 will be different as I plan to try and do more blogging and just as much (if not more) stitching!

This is a really quick post to round out the 2018 WIPocalypse.  I chose 18 WIPs to work on last year and unfortunately I didn't get a lot of progress on most of them.....

But I did manage to finish 3 of them:

Boo Club - Lizzie Kate (finished 11 December 2018)

Jingles - Lizzie Kate (finished 30th August 2018)

Moutons de Saisons "été" - Collection Tra La La (finished 2 April 2018)

I have planned to continue with some of the WIPs from 2018 and they have been added into my plans for 2019 with a goal to finish most of them before the end of the year!! 😏

So that's it for WIPocalypse 2018... not as good a result as I would have liked, but that was mostly because of my poor choices in projects and under-estimating my penchant for bright, shiny new things!!!  🙈😼

2019 is a new year and I am ready to accept the challenge!

Til next time, happy stitching

Hugs x

Happy New Year

Image from Princess Sassy Pants & Co

Hello.... long time no post...
Sorry that I have been gone for so long - no excuse other than life and time getting away from me!

This is just a very quick post to say Happy New Year!  I will be back later in the week/month for some updates on my 2018 finishes and plans for 2019.  If you wish to catch up on some of my stitching sooner, I have recently started to update my flosstube channel as well so there are a couple of new videos up that you can have a look at it if you wish to do so.

Flosstube #14 - 8 October 2018

Flosstube #15 - 10 November 2018

Flosstube #16 - 28 November 2018

Flosstube #17 - 28 December 2018

Til my next post... take care, and have a great stitchy week.
Hugs xx

Stitch Maynia 2018 Starts 15 - 18 / May Update 2018

Image from Princess Sassy Pants website

Ok, so as you have probably realised today is a bit of a catch up blogging day....  May was a busy month for one reason or another, and I didn't get back to post the last of my Stitch Maynia starts... and then we went to Singapore for a week for Hubby's milestone birthday celebrations and now it's June!

The last start that I showed you was start #14 - so here we go for the last 4 official Stitch Maynia starts.

Start 15/18 - 15th May 2018
Start #43/2018
Enjoy the Moment Tea Sampler
Gail Bussi
Fabric: 28ct Lugana - "Pixie Kiss" / Hand Dyed by Stephanie
Thread: DMC as charted
Source: Cross Stitch Collection May 2011

Start 16/18 - 16th May 2018
Start #44/2018
Violet
Mill Hill Kit

Start 17/18 - 17th May 2018
Start #45/2018
Morning Has Broken
Mari Richards
Fabric: 28ct Opal Lugana - "Galene" / Under The Sea Fabrics
Thread: DMC as charted
Source: Cross Stitch Collection

Start 18/18 - 18th May 2018
Start #46/2018
Pink Sparrow Sampler
With Thy Needle & Thread
Fabric: 36ct Edinburgh - "Dubloon" / Picture This Plus
Thread: WDW, GAST as charted

So that was Stitch Maynia!  I loved doing the 18 starts for 18 days... and I left my favourite til the last... Pink Sparrow got some more love during May which I will show shortly...

The rest of May was filled with the following:

Start #47/2018
Christmas Penguin
Helz Chuppleditch
Source: Free Gift - World of Cross Stitching
Started: 19th May 2018

WIP Update
Winter Bluster - Glendon Place

WIP Update
Tabby Cat - Mill Hill Kit

WIP Update
Happy Birthday Puppy

WIP Update
Pink Sparrow Sampler
With Thy Needle & Thread

not a great photo.. sorry

I loved stitching on Pink Sparrow during May... I took this one to Singapore with me not expecting to get much done but I did manage to get a couple of hours in here and there... I put this away after stitching on 31st May with a heavy heart - I could have just kept on stitching, but June has to be a catch up month for my other WIPs... Pink Sparrow will come out again soon for some more love!

Stitching Graph for May

Having 19 starts in one month makes for a very big graph...

June's plans are to mainly try and catch up on the Sheep Virtues and my monthly Christmas stitching.  Stitch Maynia has the World Cup SAL during June so I am going to try and fit some of my WIPs into that SAL and hopefully I will have heaps of progress next month!

Til then, happy stitching
Hugs x

WIPocalypse 2018 - May update

WIPocalypse is hosted by Measi's Musings

The object of the WIPocalypse is to stitch on projects that you want to complete before the end of the world, or the end of the year - whichever might come first! WIPocalypse is run by Melissa over at Measi's Musings and is now in it's 7th year.  

For 2018 I am going to try and work on 18 projects (ie 18 in 2018!).  The full list of my projects can be found on my WIPocalypse 2018 page.

May has been and gone... and this update is very late! What's new for me?  I'm always late!

With Stitch Maynia happening throughout May, I didn't get to touch many of my WIPocalypse projects. In fact, the only project that saw some progress was Lizzie Kate's Boo Club.

Boo Club - Lizzie Kate

Started: 1 January 2018

Fabric: 28ct Lugana (studio session -Wicked Garden) Colour Cascade Fabrics

Threads: DMC & Weeks Dye Works

Both the "Spiders" and "Eek" blocks are now finished!  "Spiders" was finished on 31st May and "Eek" was finished 3rd June.  Technically neither should be on the May update...but there wouldn't be an update if I didn't include them!!  I decided to stitch all of the black spiders rather than add buttons for the ones that were supposed to be buttons - I like them much better that way!

Boo Club is pretty much back on track now (except for the border...)

Question of the month: Where do you love to shop for stash?

Good question.... I generally shop online rather than from a store front.  The main reason for that is that I don't have a local LNS close to me.  I do have a Spotlight  (general craft) store about 10 mins away but they don't have a lot of cross stitch supplies so I don't shop there very often.  We do have a great LNS in Perth called "Stitcher's Corner" but I only get to them about 3 times a year - they do mail order though so that's good!

Online stores I buy from are generally fabric dyers (Colour Cascade Fabrics, Jodyri Designs, Under the Sea Fabrics, Hand Dyed by Stephanie) or my absolute favourite 1-2-3 Stitch!  Colour Cascade Fabrics also has an online store for cross stitch supplies so I often buy charts, DMC etc from Tammy as well as fabric.

I recently started buying from Crazy Annie as I joined their PTP fabric of the month club.  And, there is one more online store that I have just found on FB - JK's Cross Stitching Supplies.

Sorry for the very lame update this month... June will be better!! 😁

That's it for this month - til next time, happy stitching

Stitch Maynia 2018 Starts 8 - 14 / Gifted Gorgeousness May 2018

Image from Princess Sassy Pants website

Week 2 of Stitch Maynia 2018 has been and gone and my new starts have been continuing as planned for the most part...

Start 8/18 - 8th May 2018
Start #36/2018
Queen's Heart
Just Nan
Fabric: 28ct Opal Lugana - studio sessions piece / Colour Cascade Fabrics
Thread: DMC as charted

Start 9/18 - 9th May 2018
Start #37/2018
Jasmine Mix
Just Nan
Fabric: 32ct Opal Belfast - "Year of the Rooster" Limited Edition - Jodyri Designs
Thread: DMC as charted

Start 10/18 - 10th May 2018
Start #38/2018
Tabby Cat
Mill Hill Kit
Fabric: 14ct perforated paper (kit)
Thread: DMC (kit)

Start 11/18 - 11th May 2018
Start #39/2018
Old Glory
Little House Needleworks
Fabric: 28ct Lugana "Dapple" Picture This Plus
Thread: DMC

Start 12/18 - 12th May 2018
Start #40/2018
Nothing But Tea
The Sampler Girl
Fabric: 28ct Evenweave coffee dyed (base fabric was light grey)
Thread: "Masquerade" Jodyri Designs

GG SAL hosted by Jo (Serendipitous Stitching)

The next couple of starts also fall into the GG category for May....

Start 13/18 - 13th May 2018
Start #41/2018
Mother's Day Bookmark
Kate Knight
Source: Free Gift from Cross Stitch Crazy
Fabric: 14ct Aida (kit)
Thread: DMC (kit)

Start 14/18 - 14th May 2018
Start #42/2018
Proverb's 3-4
Paola Gattiblu
Source: Giveaway Gift from Kaye (Kitten Stitching)
Fabric: 28ct Evenweave coffee dyed (base fabric was light grey)
Thread: "Blue Moon" Jodyri Designs

I love these 2 Gatta (cat) designs... they are so gorgeous and I do plan to stitch them both..... Thank you Kaye :o)

Til next time, have a great stitchy week... take care and happy stitching xx

Because I love this picture so much I am going to keep it at the bottom of every GG post.... Miss Mouse is the most loving puppy you could ever have... her love is a gift to us so I think it is quite fitting that she is in my 2018 GG posts!

Jo from Serendipitous Stitching hosts the Gifted Gorgeousness SAL.  The GG SAL is about stitching charts/kits or using fabrics & threads that we have received as gifts, won in giveaways or anything that is intended be a gift or giveaway prize... or anything else that you can loosely use the word "gift" for!!  If you wish to sign up for this SAL, click on link here, or the button on my sidebar and you will be re-directed to Jo's blog.